Embedded and Device Development

Embedded and device developers have a number of Eclipse projects that can assist them with building their applications, including IDEs for C/C++, mobile Java (J2ME) and mobile Linux. Eclipse projects also provide tools to assist with target management, device debugging and building GUIs for mobile devices.

Relevant Eclipse Projects
Project Name	Homepage	Newsgroups	Mailing Lists	Wiki	Docs	Download
Device Software Development Platform
Device Software Development Platform The Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project is an open source collaborative software development project dedicated to providing an extensible, standards-based platform to address a broad range of needs in the device software development space using the Eclipse platform. DSDP is a top-level container project that includes several independent technology sub-projects focused on the embedded and mobile space.
ERCP - Embedded Rich Client Platform
The intent of this project is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices. Additional features help applications adapt to running on the large variety of mobile devices.
Mobile Tools for Java
Mobile Tools for the Java Platform - Project Mobile Tools for the Java Platform project creates tools and frameworks to extend eclipse platform to support mobile device Java application development.
Native Application Builder
Native Application Builder Project The Native Application Builder project creates faramework to build a C++ and several languages GUI applications. The goal is to allow the user to write a GUI application once and build it for many platforms without changing the code. Conceptually, this is similar to SWT and JFace, with the notable exception that the NAB tool is written in C++ and designed for use in C++ applications.
Target Management
Target Management Project The Target Management project creates data models and frameworks to configure and manage remote systems, their connections, and their services. Our main offering is the Remote System Explorer (RSE), which is also part of the Eclipse Ganymede coordinated release train. It integrates any sort of heterogeneous remote resources under a single, consistent UI and allows transparent working on remote computers just like the local one. For Ganymede, it provides access to remote file systems for other projects to consume via the Eclipse Filesystem (EFS). Other offerings include a lightweight Terminal, a Network Discovery framework, and the Target Communication Framework. More about target management »
C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT)
C/C++ IDE The CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) Project is working towards providing a fully functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform. Our focus is development on Linux for deployment on Linux, but we are interested in participation from others who would like to extend our work in other directions (e.g. a Windows client, targeting Unix(R) or embedded platforms, wizards for developing applications that use particular library or database or messaging APIs, or extension to other languages). We are looking for contributions from the open source community in the areas of testers, developers and general users who can help us ensure that the C/C++ tools work well on all the Eclipse platforms and compiler environments.

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Inside the Memory View: A Guide for Debug Providers

Sep 07, 2007

There are many programming languages that allow access and discrete control of system memory. If you are a debug provider for one of these languages, then you probably have a requirement to provide support for debug-time memory inspection and manipulation. The Eclipse debug framework provides a Memory View, along with an extensible framework to simplify and standardize this task. This article introduces the Memory View and describes how to add your own customized memory support.

Categories: Debugging, Embedded, Memory View

[html] Eclipse Corner Article This is eclipse.org content.
September 2007
by Samantha Chan

Mobile Tools for the Java Platform

Dec 13, 2006

Mobile Tools for the Java Platform (MTJ) completed its first release (0.7) in November. MTJ's power lies in its extensibility in the highly customizable world of Java ME. MTJ is both an IDE for developers in the Java ME space, as well as an extensible architecture that allows for customization to aid development against any device, configuration, or profile. The MTJ architecture consists of several small plug-ins which can easily be extended or replaced to change the functionality of the IDE. In addition there is a compilation environment for Unified Emulator Interface (UEI) devices, and the ability to extend the architecture for other environments. This webinar discusses the current features of the product, exposes our future plans, and highlights the extensible architecture.

Categories: Embedded

[ppt] PowerPoint presentation This is eclipse.org content.
December 2006
by Arto Laurila and Kevin Horowitz

[connect] Webinar This links outside of eclipse.org.
December 2006
by Arto Laurila and Kevin Horowitz

Migrate Visual Studio C and C++ projects to Eclipse CDT

Dec 12, 2006

With most C/C++ projects on Windows® developed with Microsoft® Visual Studio®, it is essential to study the migration of these projects to Eclipse, the open source IDE. This article provides a brief step-by-step procedure for migrating Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ (MSVC) projects to Eclipse. It compares and contrasts the benefits of MSVC and Eclipse CDT.

Categories: Tutorial, Embedded, CDT

[html] DeveloperWorks Article This links outside of eclipse.org.
December 2006
by Karthik Subbian, Ramakrishnan Kannan, and Priyadarshini Sampath

Developing C/C++ Applications with the CDT

Oct 18, 2006

Eclipse is not just for Java-centric development. The C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) provides solid support for developing applications written in C or C++ as well. The CDT project has been a part of Eclipse for over four years now and has acquired a large and faithful following. There are a large number of embedded tool vendors, for example, that are including the CDT as a standard part of their development tool suite. But the CDT is much more than embedded as it supports building any type of C/C++ application from command line utilities to large graphical applications on all platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, embedded, and others.

Categories: Embedded, IDE, CDT

[connect] Link to Adobe Connect webinar This links outside of eclipse.org.
October 2006
by Doug Schaefer

Eclipse Platform Technical Overview

Apr 19, 2006

The Eclipse Platform is designed for building applications, integrated development environments (IDEs)and arbitrary tools. This paper is a general technical introduction to the Eclipse Platform. Part I presents a technical overview of its architecture. Part II is a case study of how the Eclipse Platform was used to build a full-featured Java development environment.

Categories: Enterprise, RCP, Whitepaper, Platform, Embedded, Builders, Getting Started

[pdf] Eclipse Platform Technical Overview This is eclipse.org content.
April 2006

[html] Eclipse Platform Technical Overview This is eclipse.org content.
July 2001

Java Application Profiling using TPTP

Feb 21, 2006

This article demonstrates how to use the TPTP Profiling tool to profile a Java application for identifying execution related hot spots. It shows how to start the profiling session, use the various TPTP views to analyze the data, identify methods with high execution time then jump to the source code to fix the performance problem.

Categories: Enterprise, Test and performance, Profiling, Embedded, Builders

[html] Java Application Profiling using TPTP This is eclipse.org content.
February 2006
by Valentina Popescu (IBM)

A small cup of SWT: A bag of hints, tricks and recipes for developing SWT apps on the Pocket PC

Sep 19, 2003

Are you interested in developing applications for the Microsoft® Pocket PC? Are you a desktop developer curious about embedded user interfaces? A well-built embedded application is both user and resource friendly. User expectations are high. Resources are very limited...

Categories: SWT, User interface, RCP, Embedded, eRCP, eSWT

[html] A small cup of SWT: A bag of hints, tricks and recipes for developing SWT apps on the Pocket PC This is eclipse.org content.
September 2003
by Christophe Cornu (IBM)

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Plugin URL

Category

Prolog Development Tools (ProDT)		IDE
Prolog Development Tools (ProDT) is a Prolog Integrated Development Environment (IDE). One of the goals is to create a prolog IDE as rich in functionality as the Eclipse's java IDE, giving the developer a single environment where it can control th...
AccuRev AccuBridge for Eclipse Plug-In		Team Development
The AccuBridge team plug-in for Eclipse version 2008.1 brings the power of AccuRev's flexible process-centric SCM system to Eclipse users. Eclipse developers gain a transparent, stable, and highly functional environment with stream-based process auto...
Actuate - BIRT		Tools
Actuate BIRT is a commercial offering based on open source BIRT and benefits from the rich capabilities of the Eclipse platform and a very active community of users. Actuate BIRT provides the convenience of a one-button install, and support for produ...
Altova MapForce		XML
Altova MapForce is an award-winning visual data conversion, transformation and integration tool that allows users to integrate any combination of XML, database, flat file, EDI, and/or Web services data. It converts data on-the-fly or generates code f...
AVR Eclipse Plugin		Systems Development
This Eclipse Plugin provides some tools and settings for developing C programs for the ATMEL AVR series of embedded processors with the Eclipse IDE. It is open source and freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) The...
Cantata++ Unit/Integration testing for C/C++ and Java		Testing
Cantata++ allows C/C++ and Java developers to efficiently perform unit and integration testing. An Eclipse 3.3 plug-in, Cantata++ offers a unique set of testing, coverage analysis and static analysis features. Unit / Integration Testing: � Pa...
CodeCover		Testing
CodeCover is an extensible code coverage tool. It has support for Java and COBOL, supports statement coverage, branch coverage, loop coverage, and MC/DC, and performs source instrumentation for the most accurate coverage measurement. It has a CLI int...
CodeSkin for TI C2000 DSP		Languages
CodeSkin for TI C2000 DSPs is a free alternative to Code Composer Studio (CCS), turning Eclipse into an IDE for DSP code development. The plugin provides an error parser for the C2000 code generation tools as well as a flash programmer. Since CodeSki...
Custos - Design by Contract		Tools
Custos is a tool which enables programming by contract in a convenient way using java 5 annotations. Example: @Pre( cond = "name != null", onFail = "$log.warn( ''setting invalid name: '' + name + '', caller: '' + $st.get(0) )" ) public ...
Eclipse ARM Development Tools - ArmDT		Systems Development
FREE Arm Development Tools, support ARM Cortex-M3 CPUs, including project management, compiler, debugger etc. consist of many plugins based on Eclipse framework. Features - Free download and use - Eclipse Integrated Development Environment ...
Eclipse Blackfin DSP Development Tools - BDT		Systems Development
FREE Blackfin DSP Development Tools, suport ADI Blackfin DSP series, such as BF531/ BF532/ BF533 etc., including project manager, compiler, debugger etc. consist of many plugins based on Eclipse framework. Features - Free download and use...
Eclipse Resource Filter		Code Management
Eclipse Resource Filter is a plug-in for Eclipse that enables users to filter resources using custom defined patterns or regular expressions. Filtering is available on a per project or per folder basis....
eDependency		Code Management
eDependency is a Eclipse project which analyses the dependencies of bundles/plugins of your eclipse installation or bundles/plugins you are developing in workspace and visualizes them in a diagram. = 0.1.1.200808162246NGT = new Features: - Bette...
eFace free edition - XAML for Java		UI
eFace is the Worldwide First XAML solution for Java. It provides an unified programming model for building both rich client and Web application. It keeps insulation for applications from the technology/environment change such as Swing, SWT or Web/Aja...
Green UML		UML
green is a LIVE round-tripping UML class diagram editor, meaning that it supports both software engineering and reverse engineering of existing code. You can use green to create a UML class diagram from existing code, or to generate new code by drawi...
JProbe 8.0 - Java Profiler		Profiling
JProbe is an enterprise-class Java profiler used for intelligent code performance analysis and diagnosis in development environments to enable faster delivery of high-quality, production-ready applications. * Memory Analysis – Identify and r...
JProbe Freeware		Profiling
JProbe Freeware, a component of the commercial version of JProbe, is a FREE Eclipse-based memory analysis tool that leverage’s JProbe’s superior data visualization and investigative tools to analyze and diagnose heap dump memory issues. It has th...
LPC2000 Flash Burner		Systems Development
This plug-in allows you to download iHex files into NXP’s LPC2000-series ARM7 microcontroller directly from Eclipse C/C++ IDE....
MOTODEV Studio for Java ME		J2ME
MOTODEV Studio for Java ME provides a powerful set of APIs, tools, and documentation for creating applications that run on Motorola handsets and other products. All tools are pre-integrated and packaged with the Eclipse platform. Over 20 of the most ...
NDS Managedbuilder		Languages
Eclipse CDT plugin for C/C++ development for the Nintendo DS target system. It supports DevkitPro compiler/debugger. * easy to use managed build system based on the GNU toolchain * supports C and C++ projects, also ASM Programming * ...
Open extern		UI
This is an eclipse plugin, which you can use to open a shell (either a command prompt - CMD or a linux shell), or a folder (windows explorer, nautilus, konqueror) from eclipse's resource navigator or package explorer. Works on Linux, Windows and MAC ...
openArchitectureWare Code Generator Framework		Modeling
openArchitectureWare (oAW) is a suite of tools and components assisting with model driven software development built upon a modular MDSD generator framework implemented in Java supporting arbitrary import (model) formats, meta models, and output (cod...
Pax Cursor		Build and Deploy
Pax Cursor is an Eclipse Plugin that adds Eclipse launch configurations for all OSGi frameworks / versions supported by Pax Runner. By using Pax Cursor you will be able to install and start your bundles into any of Felix, Equinox, Knopflerfish or ...
Plastic SCM Eclipse Plug-In		Team Development
Working with Plastic SCM from Eclipse is very simple. After opening a project use the "Team" menu and "Share" Project to connect your project to Plastic SCM. The Plastic SCM source control actions will be available in the "Team" menu and in the "Plas...
Pluginbuilder		Build and Deploy
Pluginbuilder supports the build automation of Eclipse plug-ins. The recommended way to automate the building and testing of Eclipse plug-ins is the PDE (Plug-in Development Environment) build. The goal of this project is to assist the plug-in dev...
Rinzo XML Editor		XML
Rinzo is an Eclipse xml editor which goal is to make life simpler when dealing with xml files. It has several features regarding xml edition such as: Autocompletion of tags and attributes. If the document has an associated DTD or Schema, autoco...
SlickEdit (R) Plug-In v3.3 for Eclipse (TM)		Editor
The SlickEdit Plug-In allows developers to use the popular SlickEdit code editor as the default editor within Eclipse or any Eclipse-based IDE. Providing the capability to develop in over 40 programming languages—including C/C++, Java™, JavaScrip...
SlickEdit Core for Eclipse		Editor
SlickEdit Core is a subscription plug-in for Eclipse that allows developers to use the popular SlickEdit code editor as the default editor within the Eclipse environment. SlickEdit Core consists of the SlickEdit editor, 7 additional views, and the DI...
StartExplorer Plug-in		Tools
Every now and then when working with Eclipse you'd like to examine a file or a folder inside the Eclipse workspace with your Windows Explorer. Or you edit a configuration file in an Eclipse editor which references another file in the filesystem and y...
Statechart and Flowchart development		Build and Deploy
The StateRover provides a State-diagram, statechart, and flowchart development plugin. It provides automatic source code generation as well as visual debug animation, as demonstrated in our on-line videos....
Synergy ALM		Team Development
Synergy ALM (Agile Life-Cycle Management) is an eclipse plugin that is designed to better serve agile development process and relief developer from process overhead. The main feature of the software is to automatically correlate Perforce change li...
SystemDirector Application Modeler		Modeling
SystemDirector Application Modeler is a tool suite on Eclipse. It consists of UML2.0 editors along with C/C++/Java generators and a UML model validation tool. SystemDirector Application Modeler UML Editor can be downloaded without license fee. The fo...
Xpeaker		Other
Xpeaker is a free and open source solution based on the Xpeak standard (www.xpeak.org). The product is largely comprised of three elements, including the source code for each one. Xpeaker IDE An Eclipse plug-in with test functions, co...
Yoxos Eclipse Distribution		IDE
Yoxos is a product family offering developers and companies the biggest choice of Eclipse enhancements available in the market - tested, checked for compatibility and frequently updated. Our free Eclipse download service Yoxos On Demand enables yo...

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