Subversion is a centralized version control system, e.g. the whole history of a project is stored on a server. Subversion libraries and executables are written in the programming language C. Alternatives to centralized version control system are distributed version control systems, for example Git .

Eclipse Subversive is a plugin for Eclipse to use subversion (svn). To use subversion from Eclipse you need the Eclipse plugins which extends Eclipse with the subversion functionality and you need connectors which allows to connect from Java to subversion. Unfortunately the Eclipse UI plugins and the connectors are in different update sites due to license reasons with the connectors.