1. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The Eclipse IDE:
What's new?
Mikaël Barbero
Eclipse Foundation
April, 7th 2017
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2. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The Eclipse IDE:
What's new?
Mikaël Barbero
Eclipse Foundation
April, 7th 2017
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Cédric Brun
Obeo

3. Eclipse Releases
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4. Eclipse Releases
June
2016
Neon
3

5. Eclipse Releases
June
June
2016 2017
Neon Oxygen
3

6. Eclipse Releases
June
June
June
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
3

7. Eclipse Releases
Neon.1
June
June
June
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
Sept
3

8. Eclipse Releases
Neon.1
June
June
June
Neon.2
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
Sept
Dec
3

9. Eclipse Releases
Neon.1
June
June
June
Neon.2
Neon.3
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
Sept
Dec
March
3

10. Eclipse Releases
Sept
Neon.1
June
Sept
June
Dec
June
Neon.2
Oxygen.1
Neon.3
March
Oxygen.2
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
Sept
Dec
March
Oxygen.3
3

11. Eclipse Releases
Sept
Neon.1
June
Sept
June
Dec
June
Neon.2
Oxygen.1
Neon.3
March
Oxygen.2
2016 2017 2018
Neon Oxygen Photon
Sept
Dec
March
Oxygen.3
Java 9 support update
3

12. Neon
4

13. Word Wrap
5

14. High DPI (aka Retina)
6

15. Autosave for editors
7

16. EGerrit
8

17. EcmaScript 6 Support
9

18. Debug JS Chromium / Node
10

19. Debug JS Chromium / Node
11

20. Substring completion
12

21. Find missing file editor
13

22. Smart Import
14

23. Gradle support
15

24. Docker Tooling
16

25. PHP 7 Support
17

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27. Platform
19

28. Images are opened in the IDE
20

29. Terminate and Relaunch
21

30. Swap view in compare editor
22

31. Quick Access
23

32. Quick access search text in Help
24

33. Better colors on Linux/GTK+
Tooltips
25
Javadoc
Heap status
Progress view
light theme
dark theme

34. More High-Resolution Icons
26

35. Editor Selection: use for all
27

36. TextMate support for Eclipse
https://github.com/eclipse/tm4e
28

37. Patch and Diff Editor
29

38. Improved dialogs
30

39. Java Development Tools
31

40. Escape text when pasting
32

41. Breakpoints in overview ruler
33

42. Show last executed method result
34

43. Disable Hot Code Replace
35

44. Sort breakpoints by creation time
36

45. Trigger points for breakpoints
37

46. Breakpoints as tracepoints
38

47. New Java Index
~10xfaster
Opening java.lang.Object in
type hierarchy (from 37s to 4s)
39

48. JUnit 5 Support
40
https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/JUnit_5

49. Java Code Coverage
41
Eclemma is now an
Eclipse Project
It is available in
Java (EE) packages

50. Better Java 8 Support
42
Lots of tooling additions since Java 8 GA
e.g., since Eclipse Mars for the quickfix above

51. Java 8 Lambda completion
43
103 bugs explicitly marked as 1.8 inference bugs
• 17 were resolved before Java 8 GA
• 52 have been resolved in the three years since Java 8 GA
• 34 are still unresolved today.
Remaining bugs
• Raw types (you should get rid of that anyway)
• Wildcard capture
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=JDT&component=UI

52. Java 9 Support
44
Eclipse Oxygen will run
on Java 9
Currently (M6) need to add
-vmargs
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM

53. Java 9 Support
45
Eclipse Java Tooling will
let you define Java 9 modules
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

54. Java 9 Support
46
Eclipse Java Tooling will
let you define Java 9 modules
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

55. Java 9 Support
47
Eclipse Java Tooling will
let you define Java 9 modules
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

56. Plug-in Development Tools
48

57. Nested p2 IU categories
49

58. Override target platform plug-ins
50

59. Target definition editor
51

60. DS 1.3 and OSGI R6 SCR Implementation
Apache Felix SCR
instead of Equinox DS
52

61. • Eclipse is improving
• You can be part of the change
• It's free and open source ;)
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What you should remember

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63. Questions?
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64. Thank you!
@mikbarbero
mikael@eclipse.org56
@bruncedric
cedric.brun@obeo.fr