Java power tools series - Extra plugins to enrich Eclipse IDE

I hope, you have already read "Preface" of my java power tools series.

I love using Eclipse, but it is perturbing to upgrade it. Because every time we need to install numerous extra plugins to enrich its standard ability. Besides this, we need to recollect what all plugins to be installed in new Eclipse version. So I thought to publish a post to list Eclipse plugin names which I rely on regularly or occasionally for my own future reference. I hope below Eclipse plugins listing may benefit other java developers too.

Eclipse Plugins

	Free	Commercial
Development	Liferay IDE - for building plugins for the Liferay Portal  Spring & Groovy Tool Suite - STS for for developing Spring applications & GGTS for developing, debugging and executing Groovy and Grails applications JBoss Tools - like Hibernate Tools provides tooling for JPA and HQL Plugin for Groovy - provides Eclipse support for Groovy projects Scala IDE - provides advanced editing and debugging support for the development of pure Scala and mixed Scala-Java applications AngularJS - Eclipse plugin for AngularJS projects
Static Code Analysis (For more detail, please read my another blog post)	SonarQube Codepro Analytix Checkstyle Plug-in PMD Plugin for Eclipse FindBugs Eclipse Plugin Unnecessary Code Detector - Dead code analysis FindSecurityBugs, LAPSE+ - Code security analysis
Unit testing and Code Coverage	Infinitest - Greatly works with TDD. Each time a change is made on the source code, Infinitest runs all the tests that might fail because of these changes. MoreUnit - Shortcuts to switch between tests and classes under tests, create test stubs, mock support, decoration, refactoring support EclEmma Java Code Coverage - a Java code coverage tool for Eclipse
Productivity	InstaSearch - fast text search in the workspace Eclipse Code Recommenders + Snipmatch - code recommendation and a snippet completion engine MouseFeed - Helps to form a habit of using keyboard shortcuts JAutodoc - For automatically adding Javadoc and file headers to your source code	JRebel - Live code reload.  Eliminates need to build your app to see changes (For more detail, please read my another blog post)
Diagramming and Reverse Engineering (For more detail, please read my another blog post)	Diver, Jive - Runtime sequence diagrams generation ObjectAid - Reverse engineering for class diagram generation ModelGoon- Generate various UML diagrams from code BundleMaker - Dependency analysis Jar2UML Dr. Garbage Tools	Maintainj - Runtime sequence and class diagrams generation and debugging Architexa - Generate layered, class and sequence diagrams from code
Performance Analysis	Java Mission Control - A set of plugins designed to help develop, profile and diagnose applications running on the Oracle Java HotSpot VM VisualVM - for monitoring and profiling of java applications Lockness - Java thread dumps analysis MAT - Java head dump analyzer
Miscellaneous	JD-Eclipse - Java decompiler EasyShell - Offers tight integration of system file manager (Windows Explorer, Gnome Nautilus, KDE Konqueror, Mac Finder, ...) and shell (cmd.exe, Linux/Mac terminal) in Eclipse Eclipse-fonts - Increase/decrease font-size in editor AnyEdit Tools - Convert, compare, sort etc.

Updates History

• 20/May/2017 - Added Infinitest for unit testing

If you know or have experienced any other outstanding Eclipse plugin, please share the name of the plugin in the comment.

Disclaimer

I am not biased to particular free or commercial tools, rather my objective is about sharing my own experience on set of tools.