tomgr / bazel-eclipse

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.

Bazel Eclipse Feature (BEF)

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.

BEF Status and Roadmap

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:

• BEF project management

🔥 currently the feature is still in development. There are known scalability issues, and current development is focused on Java projects that follow certain file layout conventions.

Using the Feature

For detailed installation and setup instructions, see this page:

• Installing Eclipse and the Bazel Eclipse Feature
• Bazel Eclipse Feature User's Guide

Community, Support and Contributions

You may join and post to our discussion forum here:

• Bazel Eclipse Feature discussion group

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. We expect major changes to the Bazel Classpath Container for 1.1, so please avoid working in that area for now.

To start developing this feature, follow the instructions on our Dev Guide.

• Bazel Eclipse Feature 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

History and Credit

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.