Eclipse is an open source, Java-based extensible development platform.

By itself, it is just a framework and a set of services for building development environments through plug-in components.

Fortunately, Eclipse comes with a standard set of plug-ins, including the Java Development Kit (JDK).

While most users are happy to use Eclipse as a Java? integrated development environment (IDE), Eclipse is intended to be more than just that.

Eclipse also includes a plug-in development environment, a component primarily targeted at software developers who want to extend Eclipse because it allows them to build tools that integrate seamlessly with the Eclipse environment.

Since everything in Eclipse is a plug-in, all tool developers have an equal playing field when it comes to providing plug-ins for Eclipse and providing users with a consistent and unified integrated development environment.

Extended information: Eclipse was originally developed by IBM as a next-generation IDE development environment to replace the commercial software Visual Age for Java. It was contributed to the open source community in November 2001. It is now developed by the Eclipse Foundation, a non-profit software supplier alliance.

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In 2003, Eclipse 3.0 selected the OSGi service platform specification as the runtime architecture.

In June 2007, the stable version 3.3 was released; in June 2008, version 3.4, codenamed Ganymede, was released; in June 2009, version 3.5, codenamed Galileo, was released; in June 2010, version 3.6, codenamed Helios, was released; in June 2011

Version 3.7, codenamed Indigo, was released; version 4.2, codenamed Juno, was released in June 2012; version 4.3, codenamed Kepler, was released in June 2013; version 4.4, codenamed Luna, was released in June 2014; the project was released in June 2015

Version 4.5 codenamed Mars.