Eclipse 3.5 M1 News
Eclipse 3.5 M1 - New and Noteworthy
The lucky 08/08/08 milestone build is ready, just in time for the opening
ceremonies. To kick off the Galileo release, here are some of the more noteworthy
things available in Eclipse project milestone build 3.5 M1 (August 8, 2008) which is now available for download.
See the build notes for details about bugs fixed and other changes.
Platform
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| Cairo on AIX |
Cairo support has been added to Eclipse on AIX. This enables
advanced graphics support on AIX.
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| History in Tag Resources dialog |
When tagging a project you can now choose a previously used tag.
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| Apply patch in the Synchronize view |
You can now apply a patch directly in the Synchronize view.
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| New export wizard warning |
You are now warned when a project cannot be exported using the Team Project Set export wizard.
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| Compare Word Documents |
Comparing Word document changes in Eclipse now uses
the Word compare support to show you the changes as revisions. The plug-in that
provides this support is also compatible with Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4. More details are
available on the wiki.
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| Compare Core Plug-in |
Some of the patching functionality provided by the compare
plug-in has been refactored into a separate org.eclipse.compare.core plug-in that can
be used by headless Eclipse applications |
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Java development tools
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Improved Javadoc view and hover
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The Javadoc view and hovers now support the {@inheritDoc} tag and
add links to overridden methods (like the Javadoc tool):
Moreover, the message for deprecated elements now shows up on top, and relative links are supported
(for example, to embed images from the "doc-files" directory or to link to {@docRoot}).
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New compiler diagnostic
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Comparing identical values is now detected by the compiler and reported as a warning by default:
You can configure this setting in the Potential programming problems section on the
Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings preference page, or by clicking
the Configure Problem Severity button in the problem hover toolbar.
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JUnit 4.4
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The JUnit4 version shipped with Eclipse has been updated to 4.4.
See their Release Notes
for the changes in version 4.4.
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