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developerWorks: What to Plug Into Eclipse

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 5, 2006

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“A growing number of Java developers have come to appreciate the
productivity and quality gains provided by Eclipse’s JDT. The
Eclipse support for writing Java code is truly state of the art.
Its Java editor provides functions like syntactic highlighting,
formatting, folding, content assistance, code templates, and many
more–which most of us can no longer imagine living without. Its
ever-growing set of available refactorings and code-generation
functions allow you to manipulate your code at a higher level and
automate often coding-intensive and error-prone tasks. And, once
you’ve developed your code and unit-tested it using JDT’s built-in
support for writing and executing JUnit tests, you can debug any
issues you encounter at runtime using Eclipse’s world-class Java
debugger…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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