The most useful plug-ins in Eclipse
Plugins – components that can be installed using the Eclipse plug-in manager. Almost all plugins can be found at http://marketplace.eclipse.org. I will give a list of plugins and the URL for the installation, which I think most useful for development / testing.
- TestNG in Eclipse allows you to run tests from TestNG Eclipse and easily monitor their implementation and results. Links to install, depending on the version of Eclipse – http://testng.org/doc/download.html
- Subclipse provides support for Subversion.
- Spring IDE is a nice graphical user interface for viewing the Spring configuration files. URL for the installation – http://springide.org/updatesite.
- QuickRex provides viewer (View), in which you can enter the test code and test regular expressions. Expressions are evaluated against the test code of the text on the fly.
- Eclipse SQL Explorer is a thin client is SQL, which lets you search and browse any JDBC compliant database. There is extensive support for plugins with specialized functions for different databases (eg, DB2, MySQL, Oracle).
- M2Eclipse supports the integration of Maven Eclipse. Update Site: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e
- VeloEclipse is an HTML / XML / JSP / Velosity editor of Eclipse; it is based on veloedit for quick work with parsing and structures, but adds the editor of HTML.
- Log4E facilitates the ability to use your own Logger projects Java. It allows you to tailor your Logger by defining your own templates. There is strong support c Log4j, Commons Logging and JDK 1.4 logging.
- EclipseUtilPlugins a set of useful plug-ins for Eclipse.
- Ldap provides support for working with LDAP within Eclipse.
- Hibernate Synchronizer is a plug-in code generator. Shared with the Hibernate persistence framework. HTML Tidy to format and check (X) HTML or XML code.
- SEditor provides basic editing JavaScript, such as auto-complete and syntax highlighting.
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