Eclipse Callisto Project Profile: Data Tools Platform
Nearly all J2EE applications use a relational database of some kind. Eclipse provides an integrated set of tools for working with such databases in the Callisto Data Tools Platform.
by John Ferguson Smart
October 16, 2006
elational databases are a constant in today's development world. Despite advances in alternative storage and indexing technologies, such as full-text searching and indexing with Lucene and object-oriented and XML databases, the vast majority of modern J2EE applications still work with at least one relational database in one form or another. Yet this aspect of Java development has long been neglected in the standard Eclipse tool set, and developers have had to look for third-party plug-ins or external tools for their database needs.
Eclipse 3.2 has changed all that. The Data Tools Platform (DTP), and to a lesser extent the Web Tools Platform (WTP), both part of the new Callisto product suite released with Eclipse 3.2, provide a range of data-centric tools, including JDBC connectivity, SQL querying, database browsing, and more.
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elational databases are a constant in today's development world. Despite advances in alternative storage and indexing technologies, such as full-text searching and indexing with 
