Using eclipse in the curriculum and around the globe

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) is known as one of the leading IDEs. The features designed explicitly to support the Java programmer include a code completion facility, options to define code shortcuts and enforce agreed Java coding styles, navigation through the code and APIs, the automatic generation of Javadocs and, the real-time compilation of and feeback on the Java code. Eclipse is an open source fully extensible universal platform that provides a plugin facility through which one can add more functionality to the baseline set of features. Currently, there exist more than 800 plugins (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com) that facilitate programming in many languages and support dedicated activities within the end-to-end software development process.