What is the best Pig plugin for Eclipse?

Question

I'm about to start playing around with PIG-latin, and I was hoping to get some text highlighting and such for it in Eclipse. Doing a quick Google search, I saw a couple of Eclipse plugins for it. Are they all still in development? Which is the best?

Answer 1

Here are a list of Pig related tools: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/PigTools, there are several eclipse plugin.

Answer 2

I have taken over the maintenance and development of the "lightweight" Pig Eclipse plug in described above.

In the latest release, it provides syntax highlighting, auto complete, "javadoc" style tooltips, and open declaration (F3) support for Pig 0.11 - 0.14 (you can choose in the preferences).

Here's the update site. (the update site moved from Google Code to GitHub, so you may need to add it manually if you have a pre-existing installation)

Contributions, comments and improvements are welcome!

Answer 3

I am working on PigEditor and try to keep it simple while providing Java Eclipse's like functionalities:

• syntax/errors highlighting
• check alias name existence
• auto complete keywords, UDF names
• outline...

I am using it daily and update it regularly when I start using new Pig features.