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The Eclipse Platform is divided into component areas as follows:
 
The Eclipse Platform is divided into component areas as follows:
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ui/ Platform UI] - Platform user interface, runtime, text editor and help components (also see [[Platform UI|UI]] wiki page)
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* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ui/ Platform UI] - Platform user interface, runtime, text editor and help components (also see [[Platform UI|UI]] wiki page and [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-text/ Text])
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ SWT] - Standard Widget Toolkit (also see [[SWT]] wiki page)
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ SWT] - Standard Widget Toolkit (also see [[SWT]] wiki page)
 
* [[Eclipse/Workspace| Workspace (Team, CVS, Compare, Resources)]] - Platform resource management
 
* [[Eclipse/Workspace| Workspace (Team, CVS, Compare, Resources)]] - Platform resource management
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* [[Ant]] - Eclipse/Ant integration
 
* [[Ant]] - Eclipse/Ant integration
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-search/ Search] - Integrated search facility
 
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-search/ Search] - Integrated search facility
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-text/ Text] - Text editor framework
 
  
 
Historical information about some of the above components may be found on the following old component web pages. Information on these pages is likely not up to date:
 
Historical information about some of the above components may be found on the following old component web pages. Information on these pages is likely not up to date:

Revision as of 07:16, 8 January 2016

Platform project

The Platform defines the set of frameworks and common services that collectively make up infrastructure required to support the use of Eclipse as a component model, as a Rich Client Platform (RCP) and as a comprehensive tool integration platform. These services and frameworks include a standard workbench user interface model and portable native widget toolkit, a project model for managing resources, automatic resource delta management for incremental compilers and builders, language-independent debug infrastructure, and infrastructure for distributed multi-user versioned resource management.


The Eclipse Platform is divided into component areas as follows:

Historical information about some of the above components may be found on the following old component web pages. Information on these pages is likely not up to date:


Contributions by the community

The platform team enjoys community contributions. For bugs which we would like to get community help and which should be in a restricted scope, please see the following list.


List of Platform bugs where community help is wanted

See also Platform UI contributor guide for information about how to contribute your fix to the project.

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