About the PDE Subproject

The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides tools to create, develop, test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products.

PDE also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development.

PDE is built atop the Platform and JDT, and ships as part of the Eclipse SDK.

In PDE we do tooling, but our business is people!

PDE Components

The PDE subproject is broken down into two components. Each component operates like a project unto its own, with its own set of committers, bug categories and mailing lists.