Chapter 9. Eclipse-Based Development Products

An interesting feature of the Eclipse ecosystem is that it explicitly encourages the development of proprietary commercial products on top of the base platform. In the embedded Linux world, several vendors have migrated from proprietary development environments to tools based on Eclipse.

This chapter takes a look at how three of the leading embedded Linux vendors have extended Eclipse with value-added software to create their own unique products. The information is based on evaluation versions of the tools, and for the most part are my personal impressions of what seemed most interesting about each one. This is in no way intended to be a “competitive analysis,” or to say that one product is “better” ...

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