Plug-in Development Environment Overview



The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides a rich set of tools to create, develop, test, debug and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products.

PDE also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development.


Some of the PDE tools include:


To get started, try out the following cheatsheets:

Creating an Eclipse Plug-in

Creating a Rich Client Application


Looking for more? Discover the latest features in the What's New section.