Introduction

The functionality of Eclipse can be extended with more plugins and these are often free and sometimes open source. They can usually be installed the same way as you first installed WOLips. Simply get the appropriate update "Update URL" for the plugin (or sometimes a selection of plugins are available from the author), create a remote update site and install. The remote update site URL can usually be found somewhere in the documentation and often is more convenient that downloading the files and installing from HD.

Of course, if you are reading this, it goes without saying that WOLips is the most useful plugin of all! 

Useful Plugins

Name	Details
Subclipse	Essential Subversion client http://subclipse.tigris.org/ Update Sites: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x (For svn 1.4.x) http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x (For svn 1.5.x) Pre-requisite: Subversion binaries already installed Instructions
JSEclipse	JavaScript editor Update Site: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/jseclipse/autoinstall/site.xml
QuickREx	Provides regular expression building tool in a View HomePage: http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html Update Site: http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features
AnyEdit	AnyEdit plugin adds several new tools to the context menu of text- based Eclipse editors, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar. http://andrei.gmxhome.de/eclipse/ AnyEdit contributes also Import/Export working sets wizards. AnyEdit also allows you to automatically remove trailing whitespaces and/or perform tabs<->spaces conversion on a "save" action in all text-based Eclipse editors, and can show whitespace in text editors.
Jadclipse	On the fly decompilation of .class files - useful for debugging. http://jadclipse.sourceforge.net/ Works in association with pre-installed jad executable (Alternate download site if the 'official one' is still MIA). Update Sites: Eclipse 3.2: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.2 Eclipse 3.3: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.3 Eclipse 3.4: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.4
FindBugs	Finds bugs via static analysis. Update Site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse
Metrics	Analyzes code and can identify problem areas where complexity is too high (long methods, too many parameters, too much indentation, etc.) Update Site: http://metrics.sourceforge.net/
PMD	Static code analysis, finds problems in your code Update Site: http://pmd.sf.net/eclipse
TestNG	Unit testing Update Site: http://beust.com/eclipse
CheckStyle	Checks your code is consistent with a customisable set of coding rules Update Site: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/update