Eclipse SQL Editor Plugin
March 07, 2006
I wanted to find out how hard it is to build a language editor in Eclipse. Back then I didn’t know of any open-source SQL editor (and there wasn’t one for Eclipse either), so I started with a small prototype as an experiment.
Note: This article was written in 2006. For that reason, the screenshots show an older version of Eclipse.
The editor supports syntax highlighting.
It also has a rudimentary form of auto-completion—in this case, it only inserts the keyword "SELECT".
And it can render query results in a tabular view.
Takeaway: once I got used to Eclipse’s architecture and conventions, it was surprisingly straightforward.
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