The OVF tooling package includes components that install into an Eclipse IDE and integrate well with other features present in the Eclipse installation.
The OVF IDE features include:
The editor support allows you to create and manipulate OVF envelope and environment documents at a logical level, meaning that you manipulate objects their properties in the editors instead of having to edit their XML representation.
The editors are intelligent and forgiving. They offer you only appropriate choices in a given context. And their parsers tolerate many kinds of malformed documents, identifying exact error locations.
The OVF tooling includes extensive validation checking functions that the editors exploit in the IDE. You can perform validation checking on demand for part or the whole of a document. Many errors have associated "quick fixes".
As with any Eclipse-based implementation, the OVF tooling is deployed and maintained with the Eclipse update manager. The OVF tooling package consists of Eclipse features and plugins that you install and upgrade from an Eclipse update site.