The Eclipse Java development tooling provides a comprehensive Java development environment.
The Java development tooling itself is divided up into a number of separate plug-ins. The following table shows which API packages are found in which plug-ins as of Eclipse 4.18. This table is useful for determining which plug-ins a given plug-in should include as prerequisites.
| API Package | Required plug-in id |
com.sun.jdi[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.debug |
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui |
org.eclipse.jdt.core[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.core |
org.eclipse.jdt.annotation |
org.eclipse.jdt.annotation |
com.sun.mirror.* |
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core |
org.eclipse.jdt.launching[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.launching |
org.eclipse.jdt.core.manipulation[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.core.manipulation |
org.eclipse.jdt.ui[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.ui |
org.eclipse.jdt.junit[.*] |
org.eclipse.jdt.junit |
junit.* |
org.junit |
org.eclipse.ant.launching |
org.eclipse.ant.launching |
org.eclipse.ant.ui.launching |
org.eclipse.ant.ui |