Gotta have those Eclipse Java Development Tools

What’s the most popular part of the Eclipse ecosystem, beyond the framework itself? By a wide margin, it’s the Java Development Tools project.

BZ Research conducted its fourth annual Eclipse study late last year. We’re publishing some of the results in the Feb. 15 issue of SD Times, but this one’s worth sharing now. We asked Eclipse users, “Which Eclipse ‘bits’ are currently used by your organization?” Here were the top 10 responses:

57.7% Java Development Tools (JDT)
34.6% Web Tools Project – J2EE Standard Tools
34.6% Web Tools Project – Web Standard Tools
24.8% Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
21.1% Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
21.0% C/C++ IDE (CDT)
20.0% Web Tools Project – JavaServer Faces
19.0% Graphical Editor Framework (GEF)
19.0% Web Tools Project – AJAX Tools Framework
16.9% Visual Editor (VE)

The full study, which tracks trends from 2004-2007, along with many verbatim comments, is available for purchase from BZ Research.