Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Chapters: GNU Compiler Collection, JUnit, GNU Compiler for Java, NetBeans, Spring Roo, Apache Maven, Apache Ant, Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, Greenfoot, BlueJ, XMLBeans, JDeveloper, Jenkins, KDevelop, WaveMaker, Sonar, IntelliJ IDEA, Javadoc, Hudson, JGRASP, J Sharp, JRipples, Astah*, Oracle Application Development Framework, JCreator, Kalistick, Apache Velocity, SemmleCode, CruiseControl, Languageware, Checkstyle, Apache Torque, JMeter, BBj, Design Science, Visual Café, JBuilder, OptimalJ, FindBugs, Jenuity, Excelsior JET, MyEclipse, Soaplab, XDoclet, Borland Together, PMD, Software Quality Model, JavaCC, JAD, Simple Build Tool, DrJava, Trial Wire, SofCheck Inspector, Jakarta Cactus, Java Virtual Machine Tools Interface, Serenity Code Coverage, Java Astrodynamics Toolkit, Apache Continuum, JSwat, SableCC, Visustin, Jar Launcher, Panopticode, J2ME Army Knife, Mocha, Pack200, JSmooth, Hammurapi, Sun Java Studio Creator, TMate, JDiff, Java Agent Template, EasyEclipse, Abbot, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. Excerpt: The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain. As well as being the official compiler of the unfinished GNU operating system, GCC has been adopted as the standard compiler by most other modern Unix-like computer operating systems, including Linux, the BSD family and Mac OS X. GCC has been ported to a wide variety of processor architectures, and is widely deployed as a tool in commercial, proprietary and closed source software development environments. GCC is also available for most embedded platforms, for example Symbian (called gcce), AMCC and Freescale Power Architecture-based chips. The compiler can target a wide variety of platforms, including videogame consoles such as the PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast. Several companies make a business out of supplying and supporting GCC ports to various platforms, and chip manufacturers today consider a GCC port almost essential to the success of an architecture. Originally named the GNU C Compiler, because it only handled the C programming language, GCC 1.0 was released in 1987, and the compiler was extended to compile C++ in December of that year. Front ends were later developed for Fortran, Pascal, Objective-C, Java, and Ada, among others. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC has played an important role in the growth of free software, as both a tool and an example. Richard Stallman started GCC in 1985. He extended an existing compiler to compile C. The compiler originally compiled Pastel, an extended, nonportable dialect of Pascal, and was written in Pastel. It was rewritten in C by Len Tower and Stallman, and released in 1987 as the compiler for the GNU Project, in order to have a compiler available that was free software. Its development was supervised by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). By 1991, GCC 1.x had reached a point of stabil