Foreword

Every artisan in every craft employs tools that extend and amplify the craftsman and through which their creativity is made manifest. For the code warrior, the integrated development environment (IDE) is typically home, the place in which and with which all work is carried out. The IDE is therefore at the center of the developer experience in building, deploying, and evolving quality software-intensive systems.

Over the past several decades, resources for the developer have evolved from command-line tools to disparate desktop tools to the integrated experience we take for granted today. Eclipse is perhaps the most important realization of that experience: not only is the Eclipse platform a powerful foundation for development, but as an ...

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