Whats good about eclipse

Eclipse comes about as a very effective IDE, compared to a lot of other proprietary IDEs like the netbeans, etc. The growth of plugins that have been developed for eclipse, the flexibility to customize it with your own perspectives and ease of use to build plugins helps build great tools for optimizing the development experience.

Eclipse – EclipsePluginCentral contributed to Eclipse Foundation …

Eclipse Plugin central was contributed to the Eclipse foundation recently, looks like we are going to see a lot more adoption of EPIC and many more interesting plugins. 🙂