[NTLUG:Discuss] Eclipse - running out of RAM?

[Brian Koontz]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:34:54PM -0700, steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
> Wow! That sucks. I've been thinking about porting some games and such to the
> Google "Android" phone platform - I grabbed their SDK but it comes with a
> bunch of requirements - one of which is to use Eclipse.

How could an application "require" Eclipse?  All Eclipse is (or any
other IDE for that matter) is a wrapper around the SDK.  What magic
does Eclipse impart on said project that java/javac and a
well-constructed classpath can't do?

  --Brian