Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source, full featured IDE for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under a open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.

• Main site: http://www.eclipse.org
• Plugins: http://www.eclipse-plugins.info
• Current version: 3.1.2

Features

By default, Eclipse is designed for coding in Java.

Eclipse contains nearly everything one would want in an advanced, professional IDE.

List of Major Features:

Note that many of these don't apply to the UnrealScript plugin.

• Syntax Coloring
• Error checking:
  • Syntax error underlining.
• outstanding support for plugins ([4]).
• section folding (you can a button on the side that makes all but the first statement of a block of code fold up until you press it again)
• Project-based archetecture.
• Class, package, project browser.
• Tasks list window (with TODO in comments, etc...)
• Automatic, behind-the-scenes compilation.
• CVS (concurrent version system, for team project managment)
• JUnit support- A tool for automatically generating test methods.
• JavaDoc based tooltips
• Debugger features:
  • Stack trace window
  • Variables list (with thier current data)
  • hover tooltips contain variable's current data
  • Breakpoints can be configured. i.e. break only after instruction pointer has passed over it a given number of times.
  • Step, step into, step out, step over

Plugins

UC Editor

UCEditor

Jerome-X has developed a wonderful plugin to an amazing IDE. The plugin allows Unreal scripters to easily create and maintain Unreal scripting projects. Note: The plugin has basic features but is a Work In Progress. Many thanks to Jerome-X!

Jerome-X: Eclipse is mainly used for development of Java programs and J2EE applications, but there are increasingly new plugins being developed for eclipse, e.g. for C++ and lots of other languages. There hundreds of all kind of plugins available, see http://www.eclipse-plugins.info

Category To Do

The features that usable with the UScript plugin should be put in bold or something. Also maybe the features list should be divided into sections a little bit more