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Antepedia Developer for Eclipse
Open source management right in your IDE!
Antepedia Developer for Eclipse is an Eclipse plugin that enables developers to detect open source files while they code. It is completely integrated into the Eclipse user interface and is compatible with any file, regardless of its type or programming language.

With Antepedia Developer for Eclipse you can reuse open source faster and safely. It helps you clearly understand the open source files you are reusing and detect those that went unnoticed. Therefore, minimizing the time needed to discover and correct license compliance issues. At any moment you can launch scans to verify the license, version, project of origin. of your open source files and discover new ones.

Antepedia Developer for Eclipse helps you to:
  • Integrate open source detection early in your development process
  • Reduce the costs associated with the correction of license compliance issues
  • Enforce your license compliance rules
  • Keep up to date with security vulnerabilities
  • Follow every new release of your third-party software
  • Improve collaboration between developers, project managers, and the legal department of your organization.
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Install Antepedia Developer for Eclipse
 
From Eclipse, select Help > Install New Software and enter the update site
http://download.antelink.com/updateSite/
2
Enter your Antepedia authentication key
Get an authentication key from https://my.antepedia.com
3
Launch the open source analysis
Select the project or folder of your interest and launch the scan.
Using Antepedia for Eclipse is quick and easy
You just need an Antepedia account (register at my.antepedia.com), Eclipse 3.5 or higher and Antepedia Developer for Eclipse. It gives you full access to our Open Source Knowledge Base.
Leverage your software assets
Know what is in your code!
Knowing where your open source components come from means:
  • Avoiding late charges and budget-overrun at the end of your software project by preventing license compatibility issues.
  • Empower developers to comply with open source and verify whether the dependencies and code they add may introduce compliance risks.
The largest Knowledge Base of open source projects
Antepedia Developer for Eclipse is based on the Antepedia Knowledge Base. This knowledge base has over 1,000,000 open source projects and more than 500,000,000 files downloaded from GoogleCode, SourceForge, Maven Central Repository, RubyForge and OW2. Antelink continually updates this knowledge base to offer you a better service.
Secure and Safe
You don't have to worry about your files being uploaded to a server, or your data being transferred into a third party. Instead, Antepedia Developer for Eclipse calculates a file fingerprint (SHA-1 hash) that is sent to our servers. This fingerprint characterizes your files without exposing their content. It's impossible to reverse engineer your file from this fingerprint.

The communication between your local installation of Antepedia Developer for Eclipse and our servers proceeds through a secured link. Antepedia Developer for Eclipse transfers each bit using a secure HTTPS communication protocol. No third party can intercept your data.
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Use cases

The Antepedia for Eclipse plugin allows you to scan your projects in order to search for open source components.

If you use Maven to manage your dependencies, these...