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Eclipse 3.0 M7 - New and Noteworthy

Eclipse 3.0 M7 was released on friday… a load of great new features:

  • Enhanced content assist support

    SWT-level content assist has been enhanced for various widgets.

  • Configurable tab width for text editors
  • New search view : There is a new search view which runs searches in the background and shows the results in either tree or table form.
  • Toggle Comment command
  • Quick outline shows inherited members
  • Sticky occurrence annotations
  • Mark locations of thrown exceptions : When an exception is selected, places where that exception is thrown can be marked in the Java Editor by triggering the action Search > Exception Occurrences. The places are marked automatically if occurrence marking is turned on via the Java > Editor preference page.
  • Template mode coloring is more customizable
  • Multiple annotations shown in roll-over hover
  • Activity-based filtering of help
  • Table and tree widget improvements
  • Smarter workspace scope for reference searches
  • Content assist in dialog fields
  • Interfaces in package type hierarchy
  • Enhanced member sort order
  • Alternate plug-in format : PDE's Plug-in Project creation wizard now has an option for creating plug-ins with explicit OSGi bundle manifests. This alternate format of plug-in is recommended only for plug-ins wishing to exploit the capabilities of the new OSGi-based Platform Runtime.
  • Easy selection of plug-ins : There is a new option on the Plug-ins tab of Runtime Workbench launch configurations that makes it easy to pick a coherent set of plug-ins to include while testing your plug-in.
  • Configuring plug-in startup
  • Improved error log view : The PDE Error Log view now lets you inspect the full details of an event, and easily navigate from one event to the next.
  • Preview of new look for workbench
  • Method parameters always shown : The Java debugger now uses invented names like "arg1", "arg2", etc. to show method parameter variables when the real names are unavailable from the class file.
  • Ant-specific problems in buildfile
  • Ant editor text hovers
  • Formatter for Ant buildfiles – great

get the new version now

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Eclipse 3.0 M7 - New and Noteworthy

Thanks for the ping. Isn't this a week early?

Eclipse 3.0 M7 - New and Noteworthy

Good entry Christoph, I have no idea why it's in the Oracle category though :P Everyone knows Eclipse is evil ;)

[i'm kidding, if it makes it any better]

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