Editing and viewing mark down annotated documents in Eclipse and Anypoint Studio with a simple text editor is okay…but there are a couple of plugins that can be helpful as well.

GFM Viewer

This provides a GitHub flavored view of files with the ‘.md’ extension when viewing them in Eclipse or Anypoint Studio.  The links don’t work for me, but just seeing the page itself is a nice to have.  The last time I added this plug-in, it was hard to find the update site, so:

The Eclipse update site for this plugin is: https://raw.github.com/satyagraha/gfm_viewer/master/p2-composite/.

The documentation is in the GitHub project: https://github.com/satyagraha/gfm_viewer/blob/master/README.md;

Mark Down Text Editor

A companion to the GFM Viewer is Markdown Text Editor which provides a color coded editor special built for editing markdown formatted text files (identified with the ‘.md’ extension).

The Eclipse update site for this plugin is: http://dl.bintray.com/enide/Markdown/1.1.0/
The documentation is in the Eclipse Marketplace: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/markdown-text-editor