From: "Dave Ings" 

Keep in mind that Eclipse is first and foremost a tools *platform* not an
IDE per se. It does ship with the JDT, a Java development environment, but
this is in fact an instance of a tool built on the underlying platform.

The basic paper on what Eclipse is and isn't is here:

http://www.eclipse.org/whitepapers/eclipse-overview.pdf
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Chris"  wrote in message news:4224982c{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've not successfully used Eclipse, but I did use JPadPro and sure liked
> it!  http://www.modelworks.com
>
> /Chris
>
> Ellen K. wrote:
> > I'm surprised to read Eclipse is now the "most popular Java
development
> > tool", I thought JBuilder was the gold standard.
> >

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