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The important thing to remember when installing new Eclipse plugins is to simply unzip them in the the /usr/share/eclipse directory. Using the auto-update installer thing simply does not work (unless we can setup a new group on each box to allow users to install stuff into this directory w/o sudo).

Eclipse and Tomcat (untested)

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ectom/?ca=dgr-lnxw07EclipsTomcat

Clay Database

This one is not optional. We'll be using it for visual database design work. All of our DB designs will have clay files. Designing out in DDL is slow, and not easy for multiple people to do. Clay does it all for you.

http://www.azzurri.jp/eclipse/plugins/
Requires: http://www.eclipse.org/gef/

MySQL Driver for Reverse Engineering
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-jdbc-stable.html

XML Buddy

XML Buddy is (IMHO) the best xml editor. dig it. Some of the others caused conflicts with other pulgins (one kept treating JSP files as XML).

http://xmlbuddy.com/

JFaceDBC

This is a nice SQL editor. will run against any database server.

http://jfacedbc.sourceforge.net/

CVS-SSH2 plugins

In order for Eclipse to support CVS-SSH2, what we have on ben, you need to add the following two plugins

JSch – Java Secure Channel http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/
CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-cvsssh2/index.html

VI Plugin

Plugin to make the eclipse editor act more like vi.

http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php

PHP Eclipse

http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/en/downloads.php