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This repository contains the basis for the Eclipse IDE and a sub-repository of the eclipse-platform organization. It contains multiple modules:
Platform provides images like the splash screen.
Resources provides Java interfaces like IResource and implementations of workspace, folder, file and file system abstraction.
Runtime provides Java interfaces like IJob, ISchedulingRule and implements scheduling of multithreaded jobs with exclusive access to a resource.
Update provides Java interfaces like IPlatformConfiguration. IPlatformConfiguration represents the runtime configuration.
Debug provides Java interfaces such as ILaunchConfiguration, IDebugTarget, and IBreakpoint to implement a language-agnostic framework for launching programs, managing breakpoints, and inspecting runtime state.
Team provides Java interfaces such as IResourceDiff and IDiff to implement a framework for version control integration, resource synchronization, and two-way and three-way comparison that support merging of files and resources.
Terminal provides Java interfaces such as ITerminalConnector and ITerminalViewControl to implement an embeddable terminal widget with support for local, SSH, and Telnet connections.
Contributions are most welcome. There are many ways to contribute, from entering high quality bug reports, to contributing code or documentation changes.
For a complete guide, see the CONTRIBUTING page.
For additional documentation, please refer to the docs directory and The Official Eclipse FAQs.
This project uses GitHub to track ongoing development and issues. In case you have an issue, please read the information about Eclipse being a community project and bear in mind that this project is almost entirely developed by volunteers. So the contributors may not be able to look into every reported issue. You will also find the information about how to find and report issues in repositories of the eclipse-platform organization there. Be sure to search for existing issues before you create another one.
In case you want to report an issue that is specific to this eclipse.platform repository, you can find existing issues or create new issues within this repository.
Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.