The following is a list of my favorite Eclipse IDE plugins and their eclipse update sites (or download location if they don’t have an update site). I run Eclipse Europa with Web Tools Platform installed. Otherwise update sites may vary for different versions of Eclipse but most of these tools are awesome on 3.2 as well.

• Subclipse (Subversion)

Eclipse update site URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x

Integrates all of your Subversion commands

For example to commit

Right click -> Team-> Commit 

• Logwatcher

Very simple Log monitoring tool so you can monitor tomcat logs. And other log files, has the ability to highlight regular expressions matches with Certain Colors

Installation Directions: http://graysky.sourceforge.net/
 

• Spring IDE

Install Directions (has dependencies) http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringideInstall

Eclipse Update Site URL: http://springide.org/updatesite/

Basically this will catch errors in you Spring configuration applicationContext.xml files, If a class is not found or a bean name is mispelt. Also it gives you an explorer view of the applicationContext.xml files.

• SQL Explorer

Great DB Explorer tool , its no Toad on oracle but it provides ability to export data and keep query history (IMHO quicker for development than phpMyAdmin although doesnt have the breadth of features). See my other article about comparing the SQL Explorer with Eclipse Data Tools Platform.

               Eclipse Update Site: http://eclipsesql.sourceforge.net/

• I also use maven as an external tool extensively, as I could never get the m2ecplise eclipse plugin to work well. The m2eclipse seemed to take too long to build and lock up eclipse too much
  

• Jutils for toString and CopyContructor generation 
  

     http://eclipse-jutils.sourceforge.net/

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Posted by Robert Sinner on November 4, 2007 7:41:00 PM PST #