Downloading Eclipse's Source Code

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digiarnie picture digiarnie · May 23, 2010 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

I'm doing a study on large Java projects and would like to view the source code for Eclipse. I have gone to this url (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_Howto) and figured that the most useful cvs repository for me to look at would be this one:

:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/eclipse (The Eclipse platform project)

However, when looking at this repository, it has so many modules! Which modules should I be trying to check out? I don't necessarily want to build the IDE from source, however, I just want to get the core Eclipse code base to perform some analysis. Would I just check out any modules starting with "org.eclipse..."? Should I be checking out any of the others?

Or is there an easier way to get the source? I read somewhere that you can get the source from the binary version of Eclipse but I am unsure where to find the source.

Answer

stacker picture stacker · May 23, 2010

Just download the source tarball eclipse-cvs.tgz from here

EDIT: This also includes version history, so it may be larger than you need. For just a current version download Platform-SDK.3.5.2 ~ 100MB

It includes the sources in jar files e.g.

org.eclipse.ui.workbench_3.5.2.M20100113-0800.jar
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.source_3.5.2.M20100113-0800.jar

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