Research in Motion recently announced that it has released a Java Development Environment plug-in for Eclipse, an open source integrated development environment that seems to be the rage for coders as of late.

BlackBerry developers, of course already had the ability to code directly against the BlackBerry JDE, however, creating a JDE plug-in for Eclipse will enable Eclipse developers to create applications for BlackBerry smartphones using using the familiar toolset found in Eclipse.

The BlackBerry JDE plug-in for Eclipse is immediately available for download and can be found here…