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Eclipse is an open-source (under the Eclipse Public License, or EPL) powerful IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ user interface and is written in Java. As it is written in Java it is cross-platform and capable of running on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is maintained and used by a large community of volunteers and companies.

Installation

Eclipse

Eclipse Packages offers their own installers and tarballs for different editions.

Flathub

The Java IDE can also be installed as a Flatpak package from Flathub:

flatpak install org.eclipse.Java

You may also install it using Gnome Software or KDE Discover; look for Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.

Troubleshooting

See Eclipse on Flathub for bug reports and pull requests on the Flatpak manifest.

Read Only Eclipse.ini

You can reference a custom eclipse.ini with

flatpak run org.eclipse.Java --launcher.ini /home/user/custom/eclipse.ini

It is also possible to start Eclipse with command line parameters:

flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -vmargs -Xmx4g -Dmy.sysprop=some_value

No Splashscreen Image

As the splash is stored as legacy BMP try

yum install gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra

to fix it when using an Eclipse supplied installer.

Contact

Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on Libera. The Eclipse Linux Tools upstream project is also responsible for packaging across distributions.

Fedora Java Mailing list
Eclipse foundation (upstream)
Eclipse Foundation Chat Community (Matrix based)
Planet Eclipse (Blogs)

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-(shamelessly copied from DaveMalcolm's page at http://live.gnome.org/Eclipse)
+[https://www.eclipse.org/ide '''Eclipse'''] is an open-source (under the Eclipse Public License, or EPL) powerful [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ user interface and is written in Java. As it is written in Java it is cross-platform and capable of running on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is maintained and used by a large community of volunteers and companies.
-= Eclipse =
+== Installation ==
+=== Eclipse ===
+[https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ Eclipse Packages] offers their own installers and tarballs for different editions.
-== What is Eclipse? ==
+=== Flathub ===
-Eclipse is an awesome IDE for creating apps, in various languages.  It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.
+The Java IDE can also be installed as a Flatpak package from [https://flathub.org/apps/org.eclipse.Java Flathub]:
-It is currently best for developing apps in Java, but support for C, C++, C# and Python is rapidly catching up.
+<pre>
+flatpak install org.eclipse.Java
+</pre>
-It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced.  There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.
+You may also install it using Gnome Software or KDE Discover; look for ''Eclipse IDE for Java Developers''.
-It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
+== Troubleshooting ==
+See [https://github.com/flathub/org.eclipse.Java Eclipse on Flathub] for bug reports and pull requests on the Flatpak manifest.
-It is shipped in FedoraCore (>= 4).  Plug-ins will be added to Fedora as time permits or as people do the necessary work. ;)
+=== Read Only Eclipse.ini ===
+You can reference a custom <code>eclipse.ini</code> with
+<pre>flatpak run org.eclipse.Java --launcher.ini /home/user/custom/eclipse.ini</pre>
-== Fedora Eclipse ==
+It is also possible to start Eclipse with command line parameters:
+<pre>flatpak run org.eclipse.Java -vmargs -Xmx4g -Dmy.sysprop=some_value</pre>
-Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK, CDT, as well as the PyDev, ChangeLog, and Bugzilla plugins. We are working on making plugin packagin easier, and also on packaging more plugins.
+=== No Splashscreen Image ===
+As the splash is stored as legacy BMP try
-Would you like to help?
+<pre>yum install gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra</pre>
+to fix it when using an Eclipse supplied installer.
-Visit our [http://sourceware.org/eclipse current website] . Talk to us on IRC or the fedora-devel-java mailing list. Package a plug-in for Fedora!
-== Plug-ins We Ship ==
-[http://sourceware.org/eclipse/changelog ChangeLog]
-[http://pydev.sf.net PyDev]
-[http://www.eclipse.org/mylar Mylar/Mylyn]  -- a task-focused UI for Eclipse with bugzilla integration.  (Note:  Mylar was renamed to Mylyn for its version 2.0 and beyond but we are not yet shipping a renamed version.  This change in package names will happen for Fedora 8.)
-[http://www.eclipse.org/emf EMF]  -- Eclipse Modelling Framework
-[http://www.eclipse.org/gef GEF]  -- Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (''not'' the [http://www.eclipse.org/vep Visual Editor] )
-[http://subclipse.tigris.org Subclipse]  -- support for working with Subversion repositories
-[http://www.eclipse.org/photran Photran] -- Fortran support for Eclipse
 == Contact ==
+Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on [ircs://irc.libera.chat#fedora-java #fedora-java] on [http://libera.chat Libera]. The [https://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/ Eclipse Linux Tools] upstream project is also responsible for packaging across distributions.
-[http://sourceware.org/eclipse Fedora Eclipse Website]
+* [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/java-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Java Mailing list]
+* [https://www.eclipse.org Eclipse foundation] (upstream)
-Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on [http://freenode.net freenode] .  There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode.
+* [https://chat.eclipse.org/ Eclipse Foundation Chat Community] (Matrix based)
+* [https://planet.eclipse.org Planet Eclipse] (Blogs)
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list/ Fedora Java Mailing list]
-[http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse (upstream)]
-[http://planet.eclipse.org Planet Eclipse]
-[http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ GNU Classpath Wiki]
-[http://planet.classpath.org Planet Classpath]
-[http://gcc.gnu.org/java GCJ - GNU Compiler for Java]
-== Testing ==
-It has [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2005-July/msg00088.html automated tests] .  You can also run [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2005-April/msg00010.html individual plug-in tests] .
-== References ==
-* [http://www.redhat.com/magazine/018apr06/features/eclipse_foox/ Introduction to Eclipse on Fedora]
-* [http://www.redhat.com/magazine/018apr06/features/eclipse_tromey/ Confessions of an Eclipse convert]
-* [http://www.gotmono.com/docs/ide/eclipse.html Eclipse for developing Mono applications]
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 [[Category:Documentation]]
+[[Category:Integrated development environments]]

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