title: Getting a lightweight installation of Java Eclipse
body: <p>Having dealt with yet another stupid eclipse problem, I want to try to get the lightest, most minimal Eclipse installation as possible.</p>
  
  <p>To be clear, I use eclipse for two things:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Editing Java</li>
  <li>Debugging Java</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Everything else I do through Emacs/Zsh (editing JSP/XML/JS, file management, SVN check-in, etc). I have not found any aspect of working in Eclipse to do these tasks to be efficient or even reliable, so I do not want plug-ins that relate to it.</p>
  
  <p>From the eclipse.org site, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/galileosr2" rel="noreferrer">this</a> is the lightest install of eclipse that they have, and I don't want any of those things (Bugzilla, Mylyn, CVS xml_ui), and have actually had problems with each of them even though I do not use them.</p>
  
  <p>So what is the minimal build I can get that will:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Ignore SVN metadata</li>
  <li>Includes the full-featured editor (intellisense and type-finding)</li>
  <li>Includes the full-featured debugger (standard Eclipse/JDK)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Does not have any extra plug-ins, platforms, or "integrations" with other platforms, specifically, I don't want to deal with plug-ins relating to:</p>
  
  <p>Maven, JSP Validation, Javascript editing or validation, CVS or SVN, Mylyn, Spring or Hibernate "natures", app servers like a bundled Tomcat/GlassFish/etc, J2EE tools, or anything of the like.</p>
  
  <p>I do primarily Spring/Hibernate/web-mvc apps, and have never dealt with an Eclipse plug-in that handles any of it gracefully, I can work effectively with my own toolset, but Eclipse extensions do nothing but get in the way.</p>
  
  <p>I have worked with plain eclipse up to Ganymede, MyEclipse (up to 7.5), and the latest version of Spring-SourceTools, and find that they are all saddled with buggy useless plug-ins (though the combination is always different). </p>
  
  <p>Switching to NetBeans/Intellij is not an option, and my teammates work with SVN-controlled .class/.project files, so it pretty much has to be Eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any good advice on how I can save a few grey hairs?</p>