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<td width="100%"class="noRightBorder">Eclipse for Plug-in and RCP Developers</td>
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<p>The Eclipse Software Development Kit (SDK) contains everything you need to build
Eclipse applications, including plug-ins for the development environment and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (<a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.html/Rich_Client_Platform">RCP</a>) applications.</p>
<p>The new Eclipse SDK 3.2 release features some exciting new capabilities for plug-in and RCP developers, including:
<ul>
<li>Java 6 support</li>
<li>Support for Mac OSX on Intel and Preview support for Windows Vista</li>
<li><a href="/swt">SWT</a> Enhancements including support for OpenGL, virtual trees, custom table cell drawing</li>
<li>Improvements in Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde/">PDE</a>) to make building RCP applications easier</li>
<li>Common Navigator Framework</li>
<li>New standalone OSGi framework</li>
</ul>
<p>For a more complete list, check out the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.2.2.html">New and Noteworthy</a>.</p>
<p>The Eclipse SDK can be extended to provide additional functionality by adding features from the
<a href="discovery.php">Callisto Discovery Site</a>.</p>
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<h3>What do you need?</h3>
<p><strong><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2-200606291905/index.html">Eclipse 3.2</a> is required for Callisto.</strong>
There is no upgrade path from previous versions of Eclipse.</p>
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<li style="border-style: none">The <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2.2-200702121330/index.html">Eclipse SDK</a> <span style="white-space:nowrap">3.2<img id="platform-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('platform');"/></span>
<div id="platform" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('platform');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Eclipse SDK 3.2</h3>
The SDK provides Java development tools.
<h4>Tutorials and Help</h4>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/demos/install-eclipse/install-eclipse.html">Installing the Eclipse SDK 3.2</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/demos/testfirst/testfirst.html">Test First Development using Eclipse</a></li>
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<li style="border-style: none">Optional features available via the <a href="discovery.php">Callisto&nbsp;Discovery&nbsp;Site</a>
<ul>
<li style="border-style: none">Visual Editor <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/vep">VE</a>)<img id="ve-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('ve');"/></span>
<div id="ve" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('ve');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Visual Editor</h3>
The Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) project is a vendor-neutral, open
development platform supplying frameworks for creating GUI
builders, and exemplary, extensible tool implementations for
<a href="/swt">SWT</a>/<a href="/rcp">RCP</a>.
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<li style="border-style: none">Eclipse Modeling Framework <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/emf">EMF</a>)<img id="emf-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('emf');"/></span>
<div id="emf" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('emf');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Eclipse Modeling Framework</h3>
EMF is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other
applications based on a structured data model.
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<li style="border-style: none">Graphical Editing Framework <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/gef">GEF</a>)<img id="gef-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('gef');"/></span>
<div id="gef" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('gef');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Graphical Editing Framework</h3>
The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to take an existing
application model and quickly create a rich graphical editor.
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<li style="border-style: none">Graphical Modeling Framework <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/gmf">GMF</a>)<img id="gmf-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('gmf');"/></span>
<div id="gmf" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('gmf');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Graphical Modeling Framework</h3>
The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a
generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing
graphical editors.
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<li style="border-style: none">Reporting Tools <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/birt">BIRT</a>)<img id="birt-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('birt');"/></span>
<div id="birt" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('birt');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Reporting Tools</h3>
BIRT is a reporting system that integrates with your application to produce
compelling reports for both web and PDF.
<ul>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/tutorial.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/basic">Building a Simple Report with BIRT</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/demos/FirstReport/MyFirstReport.html">My First Report</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/tutorial.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/">More BIRT Tutorials and screen casts...</a></li>
</ul>
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<li style="border-style: none">Data Tools <span style="white-space:nowrap">(<a href="/datatools">DTP</a>)<img id="dtp-down" src="/callisto/images/down.png" onclick="show_section('dtp');"/></span>
<div id="dtp" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:5%;display:none">
<h3><img onclick="hide_section('dtp');" align="right" src="/callisto/images/close.png"/>Data Tools</h3>
The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) is a set of extensible frameworks and
exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in Eclipse.
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</ul>
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<h3>Tutorials and help</h3>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/demos/install-eclipse/install-eclipse.html">Installing the Eclipse SDK 3.2</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/evangelism/demos/install-callisto/install-callisto.html">Installing Features from the Callisto Discovery Site</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/demos/install-ve/install-ve.html">Installing and using the Eclipse Visual Editor</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/movie.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?r=1&file=/technology/phoenix/demos/testfirst/testfirst.html">Test First Development using Eclipse</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3>Suggested reading</h3>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/document.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/articles/">Eclipse Corner Articles</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/document.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://local.phoenix.eclipse.org/articles/Whitepaper-Platform-3.1/eclipse-platform-whitepaper.html">Eclipse Platform Technical Overview</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/book.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,032142672X,00.html">Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/book.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321205758,00.html">Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/book.png);border-style: none"><a href="http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321334612,00.html">Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java&trade; Applications</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/callisto/images/document.png);border-style: none">Building a Common Navigator based viewer
<a href="http://scribbledideas.blogspot.com/2006/05/building-common-navigator-based-viewer.html">Part I</a>,
<a href="http://scribbledideas.blogspot.com/2006/05/building-common-navigator-based-viewer_22.html">Part II</a>,
<a href="http://scribbledideas.blogspot.com/2006/06/building-common-navigator-based-viewer.html">Part III</a>, and
<a href="http://scribbledideas.blogspot.com/2006/06/building-common-navigator-based-viewer_18.html">Part IV</a>
</li>
</ul>
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