Normally it is a good practice to have class variables declared as private and use non private “getter and setter” methods to access them. This is otherwise called as data encapsulation in Object Oriented Programming.

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The first version of Eclipse was released in November 2001. Eclipse was announced by IBM as a $40 million donation to the Open Source community. Eclipse is now completely managed by eclipse.org, an independent, nonprofit organization.

The beauty of Eclipse IDE is its plugins architecture. A plug-in in Eclipse is a component that provides a certain type of service within the context of the Eclipse workbench. Each plug-in creates a bit of functionality, and plug-in altogether make a very rich integrated development environment.

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