Eclipse 3.0M7 is out!
by Kevin Dangoor
Go get it, if you can! It doesn’t look like the mirrors have it yet. Check out the Eclipse 3.0 M7 News for all the detail. Here are the things that interest me:
- Export Standalone Mac OS X apps – very nifty, if you’re a Mac person
- Content Assist in dialog boxes – which fixes something that’s always bugged me a little… specifically, the New Class dialog box that they show. It always bothered me that I had to click “Browse” when I’ve already typed in the name of the class I want.
- Improved string compare in JUnit – it diffs the strings!
- File system changes can be automatically refreshed
- The package explorer finally has the ability to run classes from the context menu.
- A bunch of useful Ant improvements that make the upgrade worthwhile by themselves (if you use ant
All this, plus there’s the rumored support of 2.1 plugins. It looks like a great update… now if only they’d add the J2SE 1.5 support 
You might want to check this plugin out if you’re interested in J2SE 1.5 support:
http://www.genady.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31
Yeah, I was aware of that. While I’m keen enough on 1.5 to work with beta-grade software, I’m not so keen as to give up most of Eclipse’s niceties to use it. As I understand that plugin, it doesn’t give you full 1.5 source editing support and such… it’s a hook to allow you to compile 1.5 source.
The NetBeans 3.6 support of J2SE 1.5 sounds similar. I’ll wait until the IDEs really support J2SE 1.5 before I dive in.
Thanks for the link, though.