Chapter 36. Recommended Eclipse Plug-ins for Developers

The following plug-ins for Eclipse are recommended for the development of the OpenEngSB. If not otherwise stated we recommend the latest stable version of the plug-ins. For information about the basic setup of this plug-ins please take a look into the corresponding plug-in documentation. This section only gives hints for setup if it is OpenEngSB specific.

36.1. Properties Editor

The properties editor can be used to edit the properties files used for internationalization and automatically escapes special characters, like the German "ü".

36.2. Spring IDE

Spring IDE adds support for the Spring Framework to the Eclipse platform. Especially editing the XML configuration files becomes a lot easier, as this plug-in provides code completion and other useful features.

36.3. Eclipse CS

The checkstyle plugin integrates checkstyle into Eclipse. Conformance with checkstyle criteria has to be checked before each push to the repository, so integrating the check into the IDE helps developers to already conform to the checkstyle criteria during development. You have to configure the plug-in to use our checkstyle configuration file, which can be found here

36.4. Drools

The Drools plug-in is handy if you want to edit workflows or Drools rules, because it provides syntax highlighting for rules and a graphical editor for workflows.