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Since Eclipse IDE can run in Linux and the new Honeycomb has a Linux Kernel, can Eclipse IDE run in Android Honeycomb ?

I know that isn't pretty much comfortable coding in a tablet, but I'd want to use for UML modeling.

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No. Linux distributions are more than a kernel, and Android does not have all the components. For example, you cannot run Eclipse on Ubuntu Server without installing a desktop environment.

Also, Eclipse requires Java runtime on a device in order to run, but Android does not support the complete set of J2SE.

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There is no Android modeling solution but it would not really be a big job to do it I think. You have the UML2 Eclipse models with plenty of tools, we just need an Android code generation from the model. This is just templates to be written and Android JDK integration. – UML_GURU Feb 24 '11 at 10:29
@UML_GURU I have no idea what you're talking about – Bo Tian Feb 24 '11 at 16:27
Ok, no problemo. – UML_GURU Feb 25 '11 at 15:31
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I think this has to do with the architecture, Eclipse depends on SWT, and SWT has to be compiled for each OS/architecture combo separately

Android is ARM based, and SWT (As far as I know) only supports x86 and/or x86_64

Besides, you can't do anything huge with these devices because they still haven't reached the point of being powerful enough to support large projects with a lot of includes or libraries

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