This is the Eclipse Feature for developing Bazel projects in Eclipse. The Bazel Eclipse Feature supports importing, building, and testing Java projects that are built using the Bazel build system.
This project is supported by Salesforce.
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Quick Installation
Drag the Install button and drop on your running Eclipse IDE and search for Bazel. It is that easy!
Detailed Installation and User's Guides
For detailed manual installation and setup instructions, and the User's Guide, see these pages:
Active development of this feature is currently being done by a team within Salesforce. You can track our past/current/future work using these links:
Current development is dedicated to Bazel workspaces with Java rules. The 1.x release line is focused on:
- Basic features of Java editing (code completion, incremental compilation, launching programs, debugging, etc)
- Correctness of the Bazel-derived classpath
- Scalability
- Gradually reducing certain file layout restrictions.
The 2.x release line will work towards adding Bazel specific features to Eclipse:
- BUILD file editor
- Automatic dependency management
- Support for more complex package layouts
You may join and post to our discussion forum here:
We welcome outside contributions. As with any OSS project, please contact our team prior to starting any major refactoring or feature work, as your efforts may conflict with ongoing work or plans of ours.
To start developing this feature, follow the instructions on our Dev Guide.
To find planned features, known technical debt and known bugs that need work, please look at:
- BEF project management
- TODO comments in the code base; smaller ideas are tracked using simple TODO comments
This project began as a Salesforce private fork of the Google Bazel Eclipse plugin, which had been abandoned. Full history and credit is explained in the history and credit document.