GES

About

GES tool is the result of integrating the Google Desktop Search (GDS) engine into IBM's Eclipse development environment to improve searching in software projects in a manner similar to searching the internet or your own desktop.

Screenshots

GES search tab in Eclipse

GES search results displayed in Eclipse

Installation notes

To install GES, download plug-in .jar file and simply copy it into your Eclipse plug-in folder (for example, "C:\Program Files\Eclipse\Plugins").

NOTE: Please use ges_1.0.0.jar for Eclispe 3.2 and 3.3, and ges_1_2.jar for Eclipse 3.4.

System Requirements

To run GES, you will need:

Eclipse SDK 3.2 or higher;
Google Desktop Search (GDK) 2.0 or higher;
Java Run-Time Environment (JRE) 1.5 or higher.

Team

Denys Poshyvanyk

Maksym Petrenko

Papers

Denys Poshyvanyk, Maksym Petrenko, Andrian Marcus. "Integrating COTS Search Engines into Eclipse: Google Desktop Case Study". To be published in 2nd International Workshop on Incorporating COTS Software into Software Systems: Tools and Techniques (IWICSS'07), 2007.
Denys Poshyvanyk, Maksym Petrenko, Andrian Marcus, Xinrong Xie, Dapeng Liu. "Google Eclipse Search". In 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'06), 2006, pp. 334-338.

Credits

This software uses:

GDS Java API by Maso Gato (as well as all the libraries, used by this software).
Parts of the Eclipse's org.eclipse.search package by Eclipse Foundation.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CCF-0438970. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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