Eclipse is an IDE that is feature rich, extensible, fast, nice-looking and available for free. How cool is that?
But seriously. Eclipse has strong support for Java code refactoring which is critical to XP development.
Eclipse is extended with plugins. Here's a few we are using.
- Veloeclipse http://propsorter.sourceforge.net/ an editor for Velocity templates.
- Checkstyle http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/ automated code conventions compliance checking, and code design critiques
- Clover http://cenqua.com/clover test coverage metrics.
Few other plugins we're considering.
- TimTam - http://timtam.codehaus.org/ - desktop Confluence editor
- Mavenide - http://mevenide.codehaus.org/ - Eclipse / Maven integration
- Jira plugin - http://www.softwaretesting.de/article/view/88/1/ - desktop Jira client
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