Do you have any recommended plugins for Eclipse? *

Question

Are there any great plugins out there for Eclipse, either free or otherwise?

Answer

Here's a list of plug-ins I use whenever I setup Eclipse for Java development (this list is updated for Indigo/3.7):

• Eclipse's WTP tools - if you install the Eclipse for Java EE developers these are already installed. This is what I've used as a base since 3.5 came out.
• AnyEdit tools - converts Tabs <-> Spaces whenever you save a file
• eclemma - code coverage
• OpenExtern - this gives you "Open Command Prompt Here" and "Open Explorer Here" options in your context menu
• Spring IDE if I'm working with the Spring Framework. You can also install eclemma, Subersive, Groovy support and Grails support from the Spring IDE dashboard.
• Maven Eclipse Integration if I'm working with Maven
• Various plugins to work with whatever source control I'm using: EGit for Git, Subversive with SVNKit for SVN, Merclipse for Mercurial, Rational's ClearCase plugin
• Groovy Eclipse if I'm working with Groovy
• jadclipse or JD-Eclipse for decompiling class files

I previously recommended Eclipse Platform Extensions but that doesn't work on Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5.

Update: I've removed commons4e since Eclipse 3.5 now has toString method generation built in.

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