There are Eclipse plugins available for a wide variety of SCM systems. In this chapter, we learned how to use Eclipse plugins for SVN and Git. Using these plugins you can perform many of the typical SCM operations, such as checking out source, comparing versions, and committing changes, right within the Eclipse IDE. This provides great convenience and can improve your productivity.
In the next chapter, we will see how to create JEE Database applications using JDBC and JDO.