How To Make Eclipse Integration Easy?

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Today software development environment is a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders, spread across different geographic locations, taking an active role in almost all phases of software development lifecycle. With economy becoming volatile and competition becoming tougher, companies are looking at various means to develop software applications of high quality at a faster rate. This necessitates the adoption of disparate Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools to synchronize various development activities to produce software that conform to business requirements. However, problems arise when the ALM tools used are outside of the scope of Eclipse environment thereby making it difficult for the Eclipse developers to share information with other team members.

Eclipse is free and open source software written in Java. It is a multi-language software development environment consisting of an integrated development environment and an extensible plug in system. It is the most leading development platform as it can be used to ...
... develop applications not only in Java but also in other programming languages such as Ada, C, C++, Perl, COBOL, Clojure, Groovy, Python, PHP, R, Ruby, Scheme and Scala.

The inability of the Eclipse developers in sharing information with other stakeholders is definitely a matter of great concern but not anymore with the availability of an innovative platform developed by eminent market players who specialize in offering leading technology for global collaborative development. This Eclipse integration platform ensures collaboration among the stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle, and synchronization among disparate ALM tools. The notable benefits of this platform are as follows.

* It helps Java developers to use a single tool environment both for doing their primary development job and for collaborating with other teams.

* It helps organizations to integrate seamlessly its established processes, tools and practices.

* It offers an open and seamless integration tool framework with all essential ALM services such as collaboration, traceability, process automation, security, reporting and analytics built in a single repository.

* It allows organizations to work on other artifacts in the integrated scenario from within the Eclipse IDE and to stay updated about changes to these items.

* It helps organizations to create plug-ins for its home-grown tools.

* It increases productivity by allowing developers and testers to operate from their native environment. It also reduces a lot of training time for Eclipse users, which is otherwise required to learn different tools.

* It enhances visibility by allowing developers and testers to report the progress regularly on their coding, testing, bug fixing and review tasks.

* It helps to capture work outputs more efficiently as it allows developers and testers to complete their tasks and report the results immediately.

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