Summary Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other p
At Cape Clear we use PDEBuild, controlled by CruiseControl driven Ant scripts to build our Eclipse features. As Oisín Hurley pointed out recently it has got a steep learning curve but once it is up and running it allows development teams to contribute to
What if you were able to discover potential problems in your code prior to building it? Interestingly enough, there are Eclipse plugins for tools such as JDepend and CheckStyle that can help you discover problems before they are manifested in software. In