The presentation talks about the new and noteworthy features of Eclipse Photon release in the Eclipse IDE.

1. Eclipse Photon:
What’s New in the Eclipse Platform
Lakshmi P Shanmugam,
Platform Committer & Co-lead,
IBM

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3. Agenda
What’s new in:
❖ Platform
❖ JDT
❖ Debug (Platform & JDT)
❖ PDE
❖ GTK3 Improvements
❖ Dark Theme Improvements
❖ General Updates
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4. Platform
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5. Code Mining
❖ Content that is shown along with the source text
❖ Examples: Number of references/implementations,
parameter type & name, parameter value during debug
❖ Inlined annotation support
❖ draws the annotations in the StyledText without
modifying the line numbers.
❖ Can define action to run when annotation is clicked
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6. Views
❖ Browser can toggle auto-refresh
❖ Improvements in Open Resource Dialog
❖ Quick-Access matches Preference pages by keyword
❖ Undo/Redo Toolbar Buttons
❖ Close newly imported projects upon completion
❖ Open/Close Projects by Working Set in Project Explorer
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7. Preferences
❖ Manage associations of content types with editors
❖ Allow workspace to build projects in parallel
❖ Import/export preferences from preference dialog
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Modern Directory Dialog on Windows
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9. Java Development Tools
(JDT)
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10. Support for newer Java &
JUnit versions
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Support for Modules
Support for JUnit 5.1
Support for var (local
variable type inference)
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11. Java 9 Support
❖ The Eclipse compiler for Java (ECJ) implements all the
new Java 9 language enhancements.
❖ Support for Java Modules - updated JDT compiler,
search and many editor features.
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12. Java 10 Support
❖ A Java 10 JRE is recognized by Eclipse for launching.
❖ Eclipse compiler for Java (ECJ) implements the new
Java 10 language enhancement which is the support for
local variable type inference (JEP 286)
❖ A quick fix Change project compliance and JRE to 10
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13. Test Sources
❖ Java Build Path has an attribute Contains test sources
❖ Test source folders and dependencies are shown with a
darker icon
❖ New build path attribute Without test code, that is
available for projects
❖ Two dynamic Java working sets Java Main Sources and
Java Test Sources, useful for filtering
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14. Editors & Views
❖ Navigate to 'switch' statement
❖ Escape non-ASCII characters when pasting into a string
literal
❖ Sort library entries alphabetically in Package Explorer
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15. Java Compiler & Formatter
❖ New preference added "Compiler Compliance does not
match used JRE"
❖ New formatter profile page
❖ New Cleanup Action "Remove redundant modifiers”
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16. Debug
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17. Launch Configuration Prototype
❖ A Launch configuration can be based on a prototype.
❖ It seeds attributes in its associated launch configurations
with the settings specified in the Prototype tab.
❖ Enabled for JDT and PDE launch configurations.
❖ To enable prototypes for a project : extend
org.eclipse.debug.core.launchConfigurationTypes extension
point (&) implement
org.eclipse.debug.ui.AbstractLaunchConfigurationTab.initiali
zeAttributes() for their specifics tabs.
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18. Platform Debug
❖ New Layout for Debug Perspective
❖ Option to export Launch configuration
❖ Job names as thread names
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19. JDT Debug
❖ Debugger listens to thread name changes
❖ Value displayed for method exit and exception
breakpoints
❖ Display View -> Debug Shell
❖ Advanced source lookup implementation
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20. Plug-in Development Environment
(PDE)
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21. ❖ Test Sources
❖ Source tab added to target definition editor
❖ Support for environment argument tags in generic
editor
❖ PDE compiler reports absence of Automatic-Module-
Name
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22. GTK-3 Improvements
❖ Accessibility support on GTK3
❖ Webkit2 is now the default Browser renderer on Linux/
GTK
❖ GTK_THEME override support for SWT-GTK3
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23. General Improvements
❖ Improved Hi-DPI support
❖ Improved Dark Theme support
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24. Dark Theme Improvements
❖ Improved :
❖ Text color for better readability
❖ Java syntax coloring
❖ Text Editor’s range indicator, text operation icons,
editor’s expand and collapse nodes
❖ coloring of links in code element information
❖ coloring of inherited members in the Quick Outline
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25. General Updates
❖ Dropped support for Windows XP
❖ Dropped support for XULRunner
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26. https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/
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27. Lakshmi P Shanmugam
lshanmug@in.ibm.com
Thank You!
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