I'm posting this message on behalf of Matt Parker who, along with Brian Ballantine, has developed a Processing Plugin for Eclipse called "proclipsing."  It's really terrific and I encourage anyone using Eclipse to check it out!!

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Brian Ballantine and Matt Parker have developed a Processing Plugin for Eclipse called "proclipsing."  

http://code.google.com/p/proclipsing/

The purpose of proclipsing is to lower the difficulty of using Processing in Eclipse.

It allows you to easily create a Processing project in eclipse by simply putting in the path to your Processing app, the path to your Sketch folder (for contributed libs), and then selecting the libraries you want.  Proclipsing then creates a project with the desired libs (with native libraries), and skeleton package structure and PApplet.

You can also add/remove libs later with an option in the project preferences menu.

We've also teamed up with Daniel Howe, so you can get his P5Exporter from the same update site.  With P5Exporter, you can export projects from eclipse similar to the way you do from the Processing IDE.

We ask that you submit any issues you encounter here:

http://code.google.com/p/proclipsing/issues/list

sweet, this is great. makes life much easier in eclipse, i like how libraries automatically show up  and can be added to a project in the preferences.

feature request: Would be nice to also have the checkboxy wizard for if you want to add P5 libraries later on in the project (or did i just not find it?)

or can anyone tell me what's the least complicated way to add libraries after the project has been created? i.e. when you decide to want to add opengl, there's all these jogl dependencies and whatnot...

I tried using this to create a Processing project.  It did save me the little bit of work to write all the import calls.  However, I found when I exported the project using P5Exporter, OpenProcessing did not like the applet, it gave an error saying it could not find the class, so I deleted the package it automatically created and put it in the default package and everything worked find.  In the end it costed me more time than it saved... but the efforts to integrate Processing with Eclipse are greatly appreciated, the error messages in the Processing editor are brutally nebulous :-S , since I moved over to Eclipse, things have been sooooooo much easier.  Keep going with it !

Thanks for letting us know about this.

Matt