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Why is it called JBoss-IDE when its a set of plug-ins for Eclipse ?

April 26, 2017called Eclipse jboss-ide plug-ins

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Why is it called JBoss-IDE when its a set of plug-ins for Eclipse ?

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Eclipse is NOT an IDE but an application framework. It is a container for plug-ins, like JBoss is a container for MBeans. And as the J2EE support of JBoss is just an MBean, the Java-IDE of Eclipse is just a set of plug-ins. In both cases, it will become clearer and clearer in the future that the scope is much broader. IBM is thinking about using Eclipse as a framework for all(!) of their future applications. And that’s how we see Eclipse and the people from Eclipse see it. (Have a look at the Eclipse article about branding products that are based on Eclipse.) IBM’s Websphere Studio Application Developer is a set of plug-ins (something like 500) on top of Eclipse and it’s (of course) a product by itself. We’re starting smaller (-: but nevertheless…