Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java IDE, but it is much more than that- Eclipse actually consists of over 60 different open-source projects, organized into 6 different categories:
-Enterprise Development
-Embedded and Device Development
-Rich Client Platform
-Rich Internet Applications
-Application Frameworks
-Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
-Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
