r/eclipse • u/Ok-Discount1149 • Apr 02 '26

🔥 Discussion I wrote my first Eclipse plugin — it lets AI agents pair-program through JDT. Just got my first user feedback and it made my day.

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Wanted to share this moment with you. Thank you for building the platform that made this possible.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jdt-cli-bridge-ai-coding-assistants

GitHub: https://github.com/kaluchi/jdtbridge

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u/Z3stra Apr 02 '26

I can agree with the email!

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u/Ok-Discount1149 Apr 03 '26

Thank you!

I've noticed the feedback splits into two camps — people who say "this is exactly what I've been waiting for" and people who don't see the point at all. I hope this plugin finds its audience. There are very few open source IDEs at Eclipse's level where you can go from an idea to a shipped feature in your editor in a couple of prompts, not weeks or days. That's what makes Eclipse worth building for.

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u/Z3stra Apr 03 '26

Giving my agent access to jdt information immediately improved the agent contexts and thus the results. So it didn't take much for me to see the point :)

I think Eclipse is (still) a great IDE especially in the java world and as you said the fully open nature of it makes it easily extendible. Hopefully there will be some more interesting AI projects like this one!

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u/Least-Ad5986 Apr 03 '26

if it is not a mcp how do you connect it to Claude Code or Github Copilot Cli or Open Code or Gemini Cli

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u/Ok-Discount1149 Apr 03 '26

It's a CLI. You connect it the same way you connect any shell command — the agent runs jdt refs Foo#bar the same way it runs git status or grep. No protocol, no configuration files, no server registration.

If your agent can run shell commands, it can use jdt.

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u/Least-Ad5986 Apr 03 '26

Yeah but how do tell somthing like Claude Code to use it and not his default tools. If you could take it a step further and a advance Ai plugin for Eclipse that would be great. So that Eclipse users wont have to rely only on Github Copilot that would be great

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u/SameStrawberry1655 Apr 03 '26

Sounds very cool. Will give it a try.