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Is eclipse platform independent?
As per my knowledge, eclipse is written in java. If it is so eclipse should be platform independent. But there are different eclipse for different OS???
There are distributions of Eclipse for most Intel/AMD based platforms and for major UNIXs.
You are also supposed to be able to compile and build it yourself on other platforms.
The differences stem primarily from three issues:
1) Availability of needed Java distribution on the platform (e.g., late introduction of newer Java versions on Mac).
2) 32bit vs. 64bit
3) Underlying UI toolkit
While Eclipse can run under Swing, it may look like crap and perform pretty badly.
People often expect more from the IDE, so the SWT can use some native widgets. Some plug-ins also need more direct access to the graphic subsystem. This, there are specific distributions of Eclipse that use specific platform graphic infrastructure. The most notable example is again Mac OS, where there was initially a version for Carbon, but only much later did a Cocoa version show up.