Chapter 9. Updating the Eclipse IDE

Agile development requires adaptable processes and tools that can be customized to fit the needs of your organization and projects. The chapters in Part 1, “Getting Started,” described many ways in which the Eclipse IDE can be customized to fit your personal and project preferences. However, the greatest strength of Eclipse lies in its plug-in architecture that allows you to extend and update its capabilities with new features. This chapter explains how to add new and update existing features in your Eclipse IDE.

Most of the chapters in Part 2, “Getting Agile,” include a final section named Contributions that lists plug-ins related to the topics of that chapter. The Eclipse community is growing rapidly, and hundreds ...

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