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• Visual Editor Project: The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a framework for creating GUI builders for Eclipse.  It will include reference implementations of Swing/JFC and SWT GUI builders, but intends to be useful for creating GUI builders for other languages such as C/C++ and alternate widget sets, including those that are not supported under Java.
• UML2: UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the UML 2.0 metamodel for the Eclipse platform.

This is cool. Both of them are based on code contributed by IBM. This is really significant because its less likely that they will go way of the infamous webtools project.

Both these projects are based on the latest release Eclipse 2.1.2. They are starting work to port it to the Eclipse 3.0 stream. Can't wait for this to happen. The Visual Editor Project has already a Swing based GUI builder. Check out the cool demo. This is a viewlet demo of creating a customized panel with the Visual Editor (turn your speaker on). And check out the getting started guide for UML2.