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SketchUp, with its script interpreter, takes the pain out of 3-D modeling. and allows you to automate the design process with Ruby scripts. But although SketchUp provides the script interpreter, it doesn't provide an editor; that's where Eclipse comes in. Learn how to configure SketchUp and Eclipse so you can edit scripts in Eclipse and automatically execute them in SketchUp.

This article describes how to create custom Ant tasks within Rational Application Developer, which is built on the Eclipse platform. It presents a powerful and flexible ANT technique for extending your product's functionality. It also explains why you might want or need to do so. The example in this article provides a useful function not currently available in the integrated development environment (IDE).

Eclipse presents a wealth of capabilities for building tools for compiled languages like C and the Java programming language, but provides little support for scripting languages like Perl, Python, and PHP. For these and similar languages, the Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) comes to the rescue. This tutorial Walks you through the process of building a DLTK-based IDE and provides sample code for each step.