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Eclipse 3.1 Released
Jeff Myers writes "Eclipse version 3.1 was just released and is available for download. There are quite a few new and noteworthy features added in this release - including full support for Java 5.0 and improved support for developing rich client applications based on the Eclipse platform." Update: 06/28 21:03 GMT by Z : Denis emailed to request we use mirrors, as they're already getting hammered pretty hard.
That was my only knock of the software. It would be so slow. William. Shatner. could. deliver. a. line. quicker.
For those who don't need a full blown IDE, just something to write java in and compile, try textpad. It is lightning quick.
But I bet with faster CPU's, eclipse is alright now. But it was so slow on a PIII 1ghz with 512 megs. So slow.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
The link gives a 404. Here is the correct one.
Eclipse is confusing.. its really 2 things in 1.
1. Its an Itergrated Development Environment (IDE) which allows plug ins to extend its usefullyness.
2. Its written in java with SWT (native platorm windowing extentions). It can be used as a framework for building your own java applications.
Are you thinking of JEdit? http://www.jedit.org/>
jEdit
Here ya go: Coral cache link to eclipse.org
note that not all of the mirrors are updated yet
0 6271435/ p se/R-3.1-200506271435/ 1 -200506271435/ 0 506271435/ 3 .1-200506271435/ d rops/R-3.1-200506271435/ l ipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/ p se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/ s /R-3.1-200506271435/ R -3.1-200506271435/ p se/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/softeng/eclipse/R-3.1-2005
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ecli
http://eclipse.gabriel.co.hu/downloads/drops/R-3.
http://www.eclipse.ps.pl/downloads/drops/R-3.1-20
http://mirrors.bevc.net/eclipse/download/drops/R-
http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/eclipse/downloads/
http://mirrors.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/eclipse.org/ec
http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/eclipse/ecli
http://mirror.reachable.ca/eclipse/downloads/drop
http://mirror.calvin.edu/eclipse/downloads/drops/
http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/mirrorsites/eclipse/ecli
"improved support for developing rich client applications based on the Eclipse platform",
that is a feature.
It means that you can make better standalone programs, based on the Eclipse framework.
Java 5.0 support means that it will run faster, and help you make programs faster, that run faster, too, in a nutshell.
You tried using Eclipse for C++ development on Linux? You do realize Eclipse is a Java IDE, right? There are a lot more choices for doing C++ than the silly CDE plugin for Eclipse.
the frickin web site is /. already so who the heck knows what it is
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It's a reasonable expectation to know what Eclipse is.
Check out the Visual Editor sub-project within Eclipse for a Swing and SWT editor. It's made a lot of improvements in the last couple releases, especially the latest milestone builds of the 1.1 release (which are compatible with Eclipse 3.1).
This means it can refactor code using Java 5 specifics, it has specific warnings/errors for Java 5 code, quick fixes, code formatting/highlighting, and so on.
AWT sucked so badly that people stoped talking about client side Java and run to the headless servers. The first Swing sucked too, but not so badly. In 1.5 Swing is almost grown-up and quite faster. They have also hired some non-color-blind people to revamp the default look and feel, and it now looks nice (there were ways to make it look nice in 1.3 to 1.4.x, but those were mostly undocumented).
My other main problem is having no easy migration path, hence my problem with the lack of a GUI editor - if I am going to migrate my apps and have to redesign all user interfaces around a new toolkit, the least I need is a GUI editor - rewriting everything in code would be painfully close to my early days writing GUIs for Apple II programs...
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-w in32.zip.torrent
I didn't put it up, thank Nolar.
Sun Microsystems doesn't like to talk about, or even acknowledge the existence of, Eclipse. Unless you really pester them about it.
After all, IBM picked the name: they're eclipsing the sun...
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
well, actually...
Since you said that you'd never heard of Eclipse, I thought you might be interested to know that your tool of choice was migrating there. I would expect someone who (presumably) programs professionally and uses a given tool to know about that tool and the industry as a whole. For example: at JavaOne this week the following sessions are about or include information on Eclipse:
Smarter Rich Client Through Middleware Services
Building Your Own Eclipse Plug-Ins
Introduction to Eclipse's Rich Client Platform
Write Once, Plug Everywhere: Extending the Major Java IDEs -- NetBeans(TM), Eclipse, and JBuilder
What's New in Eclipse? A Java(TM) Technology IDE and a Whole Lot More
Runtime Aspects With JVM(TM) Support
Java(TM) EE Ease of Development: Platform Specification and Tools Perspective
Introduction to the Web Tools Platform Project
And, just for a point of order, the press release where Borland announced they were migrating to eclipse was dated May of 2005-- the JavaOne release from June was talking about Together integration with Eclipse.
rob.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BW6W3QUP7CD23KZRGZG4BK7M4LX2WB K3
import this into Azureus with File->Open->Location... for a trackerless torrent. Also works with BT 4.1.2 beta, although I have no idea how to use it. Remove a space in that magnet uri if slashdot mistakenly put one there.
View the parent for the regular torrent.
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-w in32.zip.torrent
http://play.aelitis.com/torrents/eclipse-SDK-3.1-m acosx-carbon.tar.gz.torrent
-- Manik Surtani
I had been using subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) with Eclipse 3.0 for SVN support and it worked great in both Windows and Linux. Something broke part of subclipse around 3.1RC3 to the point that I couldn't add or browse repositories. Just a tip that I figured out, though: if you use a normal SVN tool (TortoiseSVN, SVN CLI) to check out a project, then when you import the project into Eclipse subclipse will be able to work with the repo just fine (as of RC7, still downloading 3.1 final).
Derek
Don't Panic...
I had the page up to the mirrors, then even the routing pages died (so I had to extract that actual mirror link from the full URL...); anyway, here's one mirror that's zipping along for me. And I will post this reply as soon as my download finishes...
win32 zip at mirror.reachable.ca
You can figure out the base directory from that if you want it for another platform.
And a few more that I haven't tested, in various countries (trying to pick the ones that look the toughest):
gulus.USherbrooke.ca
mirrorservice.org
eclipse.objectweb.org
software-mirror.com
sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Final note: some of these are definitely hosed; the first seems to work. Gotta hand it to the Canadians -- they're the ones staying up.