"Bare" Eclipse Installation for Generic Projects

Question

Members of my team will be working on a number of plain-text files. Rather than using a normal text editor, I would like them to utilize eclipse, so we can take advantage of the plug-ins that will make life easier... such as the svn plugin.

Therefore, I would like to provide them with an installation of Eclipse where they will set up generic projects, rather than Java projects.

However, the basic Eclipse download from the website includes all the java functionality. This means that their GUI is littered with java-related functions that are not required, and I don't really want them using.

I have attempted to remove the JDT plugins / features from the installation, but at this point the generic project functions disappear too!

How can one go about removing java functionality whilst retaining generic project functionality?

Answer 1

The 'Eclipse Platform' contains the minimal Eclipse without the JDT or PDE Tools.

Go to http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ and choose either Eclipse Kepler 4.3.2 or the release candidate of Eclipse Luna 4.4.RC3 (RC4 later today). Choose the appropriate download from the 'Platform Runtime Binary' section.

Update:

You need to open the Resource perspective to create projects and edit files - use Window > Open Perspective > Other... > Resource. The resource perspective should already be open if you start with a new workspace.