The Eclipse IDE And Eclipse HTML Editor

Eclipse is a software platform comprised of extensible application frameworks, tools and runtimes for software development and management. Primarily written in Java, its primary use is as an integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse is open source software licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License. The initial code base originated from VisualAge, a family of IDEs from IBM. In its default form it is meant for Java developers, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. One of these plug-ins for Eclipse is the Eclipse HTML Editor.

Eclipse HTML Editor is an plug-in for Eclipse 3.0 or higher that is good for HTML/JSP/XML Editing. In addition to Eclipse 3.0+, it also works on JDT and GEF. Eclipse HTML Editor offers a lot of features. Some of these include: HTML/JSP/XML/CSS/DTD/JavaScript Highlighting, HTML/JSP Preview, Outline View, Image Viewer, Web Browser, JSP/XML Validation, and Contents Assist (HTML Tags/Attributes, XML based on DTD and JSP taglib and more).

Eclipse HTML Editor has wizards for creating HTML/JSP/XML files. You can also set Editor Preferences and enable Editor Folding. Other advanced features you may be interested in include: a Tag Palette, CSS code completion and outline, DTD code completion and outline and validation, plus JavaScript code completion and outline and validation. The list of features, options, and tools of Eclipse HTML Editor just continues to grow as the project advances. Like the Eclipse IDE, Eclipse HTML Editor is open source and supported by a community of dedicated developers and offered freely under the Common Public License.

In order to get the Eclipse HTML Editor to work correctly, you will need to download one of four different download packages. There are versions available for Java IDE, Java EE, C/C++, and Eclipse plug-in developers respectively. If you're unsure of what to download, a safe bet would be the Eclipse Classic, which includes what you need to build applications for Eclipse. It has both IDE and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The Eclipse Classic also has incremental compilation, all of the source code, and the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE), among other features. Most importantly, it contains everything you need to install the Eclipse Plug-in, available from the Project Amateras site. Good luck with your HTML editing experience and if you have any questions be sure to check out the Eclipse HTML Editor web page.