New on PHPBuilder.com today, there's a review of the Eclipse architecture pertaining to its use with PHP.

Eclipse is written in Java and its GUI is handled by the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). This combination makes Eclipse a fast, cross-platform application. [...] By itself, Eclipse does nothing. The core piece of Eclipse is just a small kernel. All functionality of the Eclipse platform is a result of interactions between plugins and the kernel. (including a PHP plugin - PHPEclipse availible here).

I've used this editor before, and I have to be honest - I just wasn't impressed. It seemed so generic in its approach to things. The plugin idea (around the framework) is a nice idea, but I found it hard to work with...anyone else have experience with this software?