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AcronymDecoder |
SDK - Integrated Development Environment. Outside of eclipse, SDK stands for "software development kit" but means "library and interface definitions for developers"; the comprehensive tool that you use to develop code is called an IDE or Integrated Development Environment. Inside of eclipse, SDK means IDE and PDE means SDK.
WebDAV - Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. W3C sanctioned, HTTP based upload protocol with version control. The mysterious eclipse plugin that supports WebDAV is Part of the "Platform" component.
ECF - eclipse communications framework
WST - Web Standard Tools. Editors for web-protocol languages like HTML, XML and their many friends.
PDE - Plugin Development Environment. eclipse-speak for "SDK" or software development kit. This is the bit you need to develop extensions to eclipse.
RCP - Rich Client Platform. eclipse-speak for plugin configuration tool.
SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit. eclipse-speak for "eclipse Java graphics classes". Replaces Swing in eclipse applications; uses a different, more platform dependent mapping to OS graphics primitives.
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