JBoss Tools

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JBoss Tools
Developer(s) JBoss, a division of Red Hat
Stable release
4.16.0.Final / July 21, 2020;15 months ago (2020-07-21)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Software development
License Predominantly EPL and LGPL
Website http://tools.jboss.org/

JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and JavaEE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio.

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JBoss Tools includes the following modules:

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