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.

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Come to think of it...

[John Seminal]

Back in the day when I was looking at IDE's, there was not that much choice (for free ones).

There was netbeans and eclipse, which looked identical to me. I never could use either of them because I did not have a good enough system (PIII 1ghz with 512 megs). A friend with a slightly faster system and 1 gig of ram was able to run it.

And the learning curve to eclipse was pretty high for all the functions it had. At least that was my impression trying to run. But I gave up on Eclipse fairly quickly.

At the time, I was using textpad http://www.textpad.com/, and it was awesome for a while. But I soon found I needed more features than just compiling and a nice error report. I needed something to keep track of programs that were multiple classes.

I wish I could remember the name of the program. I was like textpad, very clean, no extra anything from a basic instal. But what made it different was you could import new modules (functions). Instead of having an overwhelmin experiance with Eclipse, that has everything built in, the cool thing about the blah-bare IDE was if you wanted a specific tool, you could import it and learn it. Later if you needed a second tool, you could import it. It kept the IDE clutter free.

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[Pac]

It is for Devs, as you say. If you don't know what it is, we don't know you, you don't belong...