This project provides IDE integration to Eclipse users when working on protobuf files.
This is a fork of an originally Google-initiated project (protobuf-dt) which has been largely dormant for years and is currently without an active maintainer, albeit the product itself has been working reliably for years without any changes. It was forked to fix incompatibilities with newer Eclipse versions and to implement new features, such as out-of-the-box support for google.protobuf well-known types or the capability to import protos from .jar files in the classpath.
Categories: Editor, Languages, Modeling, Programming Languages, Tools
Tags: protobuf, Protocol buffers, proto, editor, gRPC
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-03 (4.27), 2022-12 (4.26), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-03 (4.23), 2021-12 (4.22), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: GEBIT Solutions GmbH
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 10:19
License: EPL
Date Updated: Friday, July 11, 2025 - 14:35
Submitted by: Rene Schneider
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| June 2026 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 217/579 | 26 | 9 |
| April 2026 | 248/612 | 28 | 12 |
| March 2026 | 226/627 | 43 | 14 |
| February 2026 | 274/620 | 25 | 11 |
| January 2026 | 274/631 | 28 | 19 |
| December 2025 | 295/621 | 24 | 32 |
| November 2025 | 306/626 | 23 | 10 |
| October 2025 | 290/637 | 32 | 13 |
| September 2025 | 263/653 | 40 | 13 |
| August 2025 | 267/615 | 31 | 8 |
| July 2025 | 262/636 | 36 | 11 |
| June 2025 | 246/627 | 41 | 16 |
Unsuccessful Installs
Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 2
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| 2 | Cannot continue the operation. There is another install operation in progress. |
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Works great
Submitted by Gilles Iachelini on Tue, 06/04/2024 - 04:35
Thank you for maintaining this project. Works pretty good. Using it in Spring Tool Suite 4 (Version: 4.22.1.RELEASE, Build Id: 202405011620). Only thing is, that imports work a bit weirdly and cannot be resolved simetimes ("google/type/interval.proto") or own dependencies to other specifications.
Yeah we also noticed this…
Submitted by Jan Henrik Wiesner on Thu, 07/18/2024 - 15:20
In reply to Works great by Gilles Iachelini
Yeah we also noticed this. There is https://github.com/GEBIT/protobuf-dt/issues/1 for fixing this.
This now works fine as of…
Submitted by Rene Schneider on Fri, 09/20/2024 - 03:27
In reply to Works great by Gilles Iachelini
This now works fine as of the current version 2.5.4, imports can be done from dependencies that contain .proto files :)
Compatibility with Xtext 2.35.0
Submitted by sanath rayala on Fri, 10/25/2024 - 06:30
Hello! I’m trying to install the Protocol Buffer Editor plugin, but my current setup includes Xtext 2.35.0. The latest version of the Protocol Buffer Editor (2.5.4.202408231052) requires an older Xtext version (between 2.9.0 and 3.0.0). Could you guide me to a compatible version of the Protocol Buffer Editor that works with Xtext 2.35.0, or suggest any workarounds? Thank you!