Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

The Eclipse IDE: What's new?

Mikaël Barbero Eclipse Foundation

April, 7th 20171

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

The Eclipse IDE: What's new?

Mikaël Barbero Eclipse Foundation

April, 7th 20172

Cédric Brun Obeo

Eclipse Releases

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Eclipse Releases

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2016

Neon

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Eclipse Releases

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2016 2017

Neon Oxygen

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Eclipse Releases

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June

2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

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Eclipse Releases

Neon.1

JuneJune

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2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

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Eclipse Releases

Neon.1

JuneJune

June

Neon.2

2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

SeptDec

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Eclipse Releases

Neon.1

JuneJune

June

Neon.2Neon.3

2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

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Eclipse Releases

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Neon.1

JuneSept

JuneDec

June

Neon.2

Oxygen.1

Neon.3

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Oxygen.2

2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

SeptDec

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Oxygen.3

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Eclipse Releases

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Neon.1

JuneSept

JuneDec

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Oxygen.1

Neon.3

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Oxygen.2

2016 2017 2018

Neon Oxygen Photon

SeptDec

March

Oxygen.3

Java 9 support update

3

Neon

4

Word Wrap

5

High DPI (aka Retina)

6

Autosave for editors

7

EGerrit

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EcmaScript 6 Support

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Debug JS Chromium / Node

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Debug JS Chromium / Node

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Substring completion

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Find missing file editor

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Smart Import

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Gradle support

15

Docker Tooling

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PHP 7 Support

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June 28, 2017

Platform

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Images are opened in the IDE

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Terminate and Relaunch

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Swap view in compare editor

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Quick Access

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Quick access search text in Help

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Better colors on Linux/GTK+Tooltips

25

Javadoc

Heap status

Progress view

light theme

dark theme

More High-Resolution Icons

26

Editor Selection: use for all

27

TextMate support for Eclipse

https://github.com/eclipse/tm4e28

Patch and Diff Editor

29

Improved dialogs

30

Java Development Tools

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Escape text when pasting

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Breakpoints in overview ruler

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Show last executed method result

34

Disable Hot Code Replace

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Sort breakpoints by creation time

36

Trigger points for breakpoints

37

Breakpoints as tracepoints

38

New Java Index

~10x faster

Opening java.lang.Object in type hierarchy (from 37s to 4s)

39

JUnit 5 Support

40

https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/JUnit_5

Java Code Coverage

41

Eclemma is now an Eclipse Project

It is available in Java (EE) packages

Better Java 8 Support

42

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

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

Java 9 Support

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Eclipse Oxygen will run on Java 9

Currently (M6) need to add -vmargs

--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM

Java 9 Support

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Eclipse Java Tooling will let you define Java 9 modules

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

Java 9 Support

46

Eclipse Java Tooling will let you define Java 9 modules

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

Java 9 Support

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Eclipse Java Tooling will let you define Java 9 modules

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-9-support-beta-oxygen

Plug-in Development Tools

48

Nested p2 IU categories

49

Override target platform plug-ins

50

Target definition editor

51

DS 1.3 and OSGI R6 SCR Implementation

Apache Felix SCR instead of Equinox DS

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• 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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June 28, 2017

Questions?55

Thank you!@mikbarbero

mikael@eclipse.org56

@bruncedric cedric.brun@obeo.fr