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For anyone that doesn’t follow that sort of thing, the 3.2 release (Callisto) of Eclipse was released the end of last week. I just started playing around with it at home since I don’t want to destabilize my work setup, and it seems to work fine with all of the plugins that I use on a daily basis. Lately, I’ve found the following add ons to be really good.

• PHPEclipse – It’s not super fancy, but it has some nice little features like refreshing an internal web browser on file save.
• RadRails – I’ve started playing around with Ruby on Rails and this is another set of plugins that provides some nice integration, especially if you’re a windows user.
• Ruby Development Tool (RDT) – RadRails is built on top of this one, which provides a lot of the Ruby editing framework.
• Subclipse – Subversion + Eclipse. If you want to use this with Callisto, then I recommend reading this page.

There’s a lot of smaller plugins, but these are the main major ones that I always install. Recently, I started playing around with eclipse plugin development and I found the EclipseZone forums to be a really good place to find answers to detailed questions about anything related to eclipse. At some point, I’ll probably blog about the plugin that I play around with every once in a while for packaging and editing firefox extensions. When the source isn’t quite so hacked up, I’ll throw that up too.