Eclipse Tools Project

Overview
The Eclipse Tools Top Level Project (the “Eclipse Tools Project”) is an open source software development project dedicated to developing a wide range of exemplary, extensible development tools, and tools-specific components for the Eclipse Platform. Typically, this would include tools for computer programming languages (compilers, editors), performance tools, debuggers, and test tools.

Mission
The mission of Eclipse Tools Project is to foster the creation of a wide variety of exemplary, extensible tools for the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Tools Project provides a focal point for diverse tool builders to ensure the creation of best of breed tools for the platform, consistent with the Purposes of the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Tools Project provides a place where a single point for interaction and coordination for all tools developers can occur which will minimize overlap and duplication, ensure maximum sharing and creation of common components and promote seamless interoperation between the diverse types of developed tools. The Eclipse Tools Project will promote the Eclipse vision and attempt to foster Projects that set the “gold standard” for tools implementers.

The Eclipse Tools Project will use its experience in developing tools for the Eclipse Platform, to provide technical requirements and feedback to the Eclipse PMC.

Scope
The Eclipse Tools Project encompasses the tools being built for the Eclipse Platform. The main focus of these tools will be development tools such as computer programming language tools (compilers, editors, debuggers), performance tools, and test tools.

The set of tools being built by the Eclipse Tools Project will grow over time. Initially, we expect tools like a C/C++ IDE, as well as tools for existing languages that don’t have existing IDEs (Lisp, Scheme). In addition, we expect that a wide range of debuggers for programming languages will leverage the Eclipse debug frameworks.