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 <h1 class="article-title"><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></h1>
   <A target="_blank" HREF="http://eclipse.org/luna">Eclipse Luna</a> is
   here! 10 years after the first Eclipse annual summer release shipped,
   the Eclipse team is still shipping quality software on-time and
   on-budget. Eclipse Luna contains 76 different Eclipse projects and
   over 10 million lines of new code was contributed this year.
   <p>Since 2007 I've been counting down the 10 most New and Noteworthy
     features of each release. These articles highlight the features I'm
     most excited about. Here is my list for 2014.


   <h2>
     <A target="_blank"
       HREF="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/12/rcp-improvements-top-eclipse-luna-feature-10/">10.
       RCP Improvements</A>
   </h2>
   <p>2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Eclipse RCP, the Rich Client
     Platform. Using the Eclipse programming model, with OSGi, extension
     points and SWT, developers can build Rich Client Applications for
     the Desktop. This year, assembling RCP applications got a lot
     easier. The Eclipse product editor now supports platform specific
     launching arguments and config.ini properties. You can set program
     arguments and VM settings on a per-platform basis and bundle start
     levels can also be set in the product editor. Finally, software
     update sites can now be added to your product with ease.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/rcp.png" alt="rcp" />


   <H2>
     <A target="_blank"
       HREF="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/13/sirius-top-eclipse-luna-feature-9/">9.
       Sirius</A>
   </H2>
   <p>
     The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eclipse.org/sirius/">Sirius
       project</a> combines modelling and graphical editors. Using
     Sirius, you can create graphical editors and a modelling workbench
     for your domain specific language. The elements in an EMF model can
     be mapped to graphical elements such as nodes, edges, images or
     containers and visual properties (such as colour, icons, line width,
     etc.) can be mapped to model properties. Editors and tool palettes
     can be integrated, providing a fully working graphical editor for
     your model. The Ecore Tools project, a graphical editor for EMF
     itself, has also be completely re-written using Sirius, providing an
     exemplary tool for this great technology.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/sirius.png" alt="sirius" />


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/16/emf-forms-top-eclipse-luna-feature-8/">8.
       EMF Forms</a>
   </h2>
   <p>
     EMF Forms is part of the <a href="http://eclipse.org/ecp/">EMF
       Client Platform Project</a>, a framework for building EMF-based
     Rich Client applications. Instead of manually coding form-based UIs,
     EMF forms renders the user interface from a view model. The view
     model defines layout, components and the bindings to the EMF Model.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/emf-form.png" alt="emf forms" />


   <p>Master detail views, tables, trees and input dialogs can all be
     integrated by mapping the model element to the particular user
     interface widget. You can customize the label, hint text and supply
     custom validators to your forms. With EMF Forms, the data and view
     models are completely decoupled, easing both the development and the
     maintenance of these UIs.


   <p>


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/17/tcf-terminal-top-eclipse-luna-feature-7/">7.
       TCF Terminal</a>
   </h2>
   <p>
     While developing software, staying focused and <a
       href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/tech-reports-search.php?number=2003-37">in
       the flow</a> helps maintain productivity. Context switching,
     distractions and continually moving between tools can easily break
     the <em>flow</em>. Flow is one of the reasons Eclipse is such a
     powerful IDE, since it brings all your development tools into a
     single workbench. But as good as Eclipse is, and as large as the
     ecosystem is, sometimes a tool is just not available as a plug-in.
     To assist you here, Eclipse now ships with a powerful terminal,
     providing you access to your system terminal directly from within
     the IDE.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/tcf.png" alt="tcf" />


   <p>The terminal is available on all major platforms and supports
     colours (syntax highlighting), tab completion, copy and paste and
     even VI Editing. The shell also supports remote system access,
     allowing you to connect to other systems to ease deployment, start a
     remote debugger or kick-off a command line build.


   <p>


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/18/rap-top-eclipse-luna-feature-6/">6.
       RAP Improvements</a>
   </h2>
   <p>
     Originally a platform for Rich Ajax applications, RAP has
     transitioned into a general purpose Remote Application Platform. In
     addition to the web client, RAP now supports <a
       href="http://developer.eclipsesource.com/tabris/">mobile clients</a>
     and a desktop client is currently under development. Over the past
     year, a number of improvements have been added to RAP. The file
     upload dialog now supports Drag and Drop, the DropDown widget used
     for AutoSuggest has graduated from incubation and a powerful row
     template mechanism for tables has been introduced.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/rap.png" alt="rap" />


   <p>
     Instead of simple grids, row templates allow you to layout all
     aspects of each row. Images can be aligned in different positions,
     elements can be aligned relative to each other, and areas can be
     designated as <i>selectable</i>.


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/20/dark-theme-top-eclipse-luna-feature-5/">5.
       Dark Theme</a>
   </h2>
   <p>Developers are passionate about their tools, and many developers
     take great pride in customizing the look and feel of their
     development machines. With the dark theme, Eclipse now looks
     beautiful on a development machines with other dark system settings
     enabled.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/dark.png" alt="dark theme" />


   <p>Eclipse Luna is also shipping with a new set of platform icons
     which improve the look on both light and dark themes and of course
     the theme is cross-platform, supporting Mac, Linux and Windows.


   <h2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/20/snip-match-top-eclipse-luna-feature-4/">4.
       SnipMatch</a>
   </h2>
   <p>
     <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/">Code
       Recommenders</a> is one of the most exciting and innovative
     plug-ins available for Eclipse. With standard <em>content-assist</em>,
     Eclipse will show you all the method calls, variables uses, template
     options, etc... for the current context. Most of these options are
     irrelevant, and if you're learning a new API, all these options can
     be confusing. Furthermore, listing the code completion options in
     alphabetical order provides very little value. Code recommenders
     aims to fix this by displaying the available completions options
     according to their relevance.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/snipmatch.png" alt="snipmatch" />


   <p>SnipMatch by Code Recommenders lets developers search for, and
     quickly insert, code snippets. API usage is often more than method
     calls, requiring proper setup, usage and possibly teardown code.
     With SnipMatch, entire blocks of templated code can be inserted with
     a single click. To use SnipMatch, install code recommenders and
     press CTRL+ALT+Space.


   <h2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/23/git-improvements-top-eclipse-feature-luna-3/">3.
       EGit Improvements</a>
   </h2>
   <p>
     Git tools for Eclipse (EGit) started in 2009 and has improved by
     leaps and bounds each year. Over the past 12 months a number of
     notable improvements have been added to EGit. You can now directly
     edit commits from the history view. You can also select multiple
     consecutive commits and <em>squash</em> them.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/git.png" alt="git" />


   <p>Interactive rebase has also been implemented. With interactive
     rebase, commits can be removed, squashed, edited or modified. The
     order of the commits can also be altered. Finally, the blame
     annotations in EGit have been greatly improved. A diff is shown
     in-line as well as links to the parent commit.


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/24/split-editors-top-eclipse-luna-feature-2/">2.
       Split Editors</a>
   </h2>
   <p>After 12 years, 200 votes, and over 181 comments, split editors
     have finally be introduced to Eclipse. Editors can be split
     horizontally ( CTRL+_ ) or vertically ( CTRL+{ ) allowing you to
     edit two parts of a file at the same time.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/split.png" width="700" alt="split" />


   <p>

     In addition to split editors, a number of other notable improvements
     have been added to platform. Perspectives can be re-ordered, GTK+3
     is a proper SWT port, and line numbers are now on by default. For a
     full list of what's new in the Eclipse Platform, checkout the <a
       href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.4/final/eclipse-news-part1.php">New
       and Noteworthy</a>.


   <H2>
     <a target="_blank"
       href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/25/java-8-support-top-eclipse-luna-feature/">1.
       Java 8 Support</a>
   </H2>
   <p>Eclipse now has first class tool support for Java 8! From the
     Eclipse Java Compiler, to Maven integration. From the Memory
     Analyzer to the Java tooling, full Java 8 support is here.


   <p>
     <img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/jdt.png" alt="jdt" />


   <p>
     The Java Tools provide <em>quick-fixes</em> for converting anonymous
     inner classes to lambda expressions as well as in-line lambda
     refactoring support. Eclipse also has support for lambda debugging
     and breakpoints. Code formatters for Java 8 constructs are available
     as is support for type annotations, including a set of annotations
     for null analysis. There is also a number of other enhancements such
     as better type inference, support for effectively final variables
     and default methods.


   <p>
     Java 8 represents one of the biggest Java releases ever. The Eclipse
     committers as a whole, and the JDT team in particular, should be
     really proud of the great work they did with <A
       HREF="http://eclipse.org/luna">Luna</a>.


   <p>
     Thank-you to everyone involved with the Eclipse Luna release! For
     more Eclipse Tips and Tricks, you can follow me on <a
       href="https://twitter.com/irbull">Twitter</a>.


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         </div>
         <div class="col-sm-16">
           <p class="author-name">
         Ian Bull <br />
         <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipsesource.com/">EclipseSource</a>
       </p>
       <ul class="author-link">
         <li><a target="_blank"
           href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/author/irbull/">Blog</a></li>
         <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/irbull">Twitter</a></li>
         <li><a target="_blank"
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	/*******************************************************************************
	* Copyright (c) 2015 Eclipse Foundation and others.
	* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
	* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
	* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
	* http://eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
	*
	* Contributors:
	* Eric Poirier (Eclipse Foundation) - Initial implementation
	*******************************************************************************/
	?>

	<h1 class="article-title"><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></h1>
	<A target="_blank" HREF="http://eclipse.org/luna">Eclipse Luna</a> is
	here! 10 years after the first Eclipse annual summer release shipped,
	the Eclipse team is still shipping quality software on-time and
	on-budget. Eclipse Luna contains 76 different Eclipse projects and
	over 10 million lines of new code was contributed this year.
	<p>Since 2007 I've been counting down the 10 most New and Noteworthy
	features of each release. These articles highlight the features I'm
	most excited about. Here is my list for 2014.


	<h2>
	<A target="_blank"
	HREF="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/12/rcp-improvements-top-eclipse-luna-feature-10/">10.
	RCP Improvements</A>
	</h2>
	<p>2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Eclipse RCP, the Rich Client
	Platform. Using the Eclipse programming model, with OSGi, extension
	points and SWT, developers can build Rich Client Applications for
	the Desktop. This year, assembling RCP applications got a lot
	easier. The Eclipse product editor now supports platform specific
	launching arguments and config.ini properties. You can set program
	arguments and VM settings on a per-platform basis and bundle start
	levels can also be set in the product editor. Finally, software
	update sites can now be added to your product with ease.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/rcp.png" alt="rcp" />


	<H2>
	<A target="_blank"
	HREF="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/13/sirius-top-eclipse-luna-feature-9/">9.
	Sirius</A>
	</H2>
	<p>
	The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eclipse.org/sirius/">Sirius
	project</a> combines modelling and graphical editors. Using
	Sirius, you can create graphical editors and a modelling workbench
	for your domain specific language. The elements in an EMF model can
	be mapped to graphical elements such as nodes, edges, images or
	containers and visual properties (such as colour, icons, line width,
	etc.) can be mapped to model properties. Editors and tool palettes
	can be integrated, providing a fully working graphical editor for
	your model. The Ecore Tools project, a graphical editor for EMF
	itself, has also be completely re-written using Sirius, providing an
	exemplary tool for this great technology.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/sirius.png" alt="sirius" />


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/16/emf-forms-top-eclipse-luna-feature-8/">8.
	EMF Forms</a>
	</h2>
	<p>
	EMF Forms is part of the <a href="http://eclipse.org/ecp/">EMF
	Client Platform Project</a>, a framework for building EMF-based
	Rich Client applications. Instead of manually coding form-based UIs,
	EMF forms renders the user interface from a view model. The view
	model defines layout, components and the bindings to the EMF Model.



	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/emf-form.png" alt="emf forms" />


	<p>Master detail views, tables, trees and input dialogs can all be
	integrated by mapping the model element to the particular user
	interface widget. You can customize the label, hint text and supply
	custom validators to your forms. With EMF Forms, the data and view
	models are completely decoupled, easing both the development and the
	maintenance of these UIs.


	<p>


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/17/tcf-terminal-top-eclipse-luna-feature-7/">7.
	TCF Terminal</a>
	</h2>
	<p>
	While developing software, staying focused and <a
	href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/tech-reports-search.php?number=2003-37">in
	the flow</a> helps maintain productivity. Context switching,
	distractions and continually moving between tools can easily break
	the <em>flow</em>. Flow is one of the reasons Eclipse is such a
	powerful IDE, since it brings all your development tools into a
	single workbench. But as good as Eclipse is, and as large as the
	ecosystem is, sometimes a tool is just not available as a plug-in.
	To assist you here, Eclipse now ships with a powerful terminal,
	providing you access to your system terminal directly from within
	the IDE.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/tcf.png" alt="tcf" />


	<p>The terminal is available on all major platforms and supports
	colours (syntax highlighting), tab completion, copy and paste and
	even VI Editing. The shell also supports remote system access,
	allowing you to connect to other systems to ease deployment, start a
	remote debugger or kick-off a command line build.


	<p>


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/18/rap-top-eclipse-luna-feature-6/">6.
	RAP Improvements</a>
	</h2>
	<p>
	Originally a platform for Rich Ajax applications, RAP has
	transitioned into a general purpose Remote Application Platform. In
	addition to the web client, RAP now supports <a
	href="http://developer.eclipsesource.com/tabris/">mobile clients</a>
	and a desktop client is currently under development. Over the past
	year, a number of improvements have been added to RAP. The file
	upload dialog now supports Drag and Drop, the DropDown widget used
	for AutoSuggest has graduated from incubation and a powerful row
	template mechanism for tables has been introduced.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/rap.png" alt="rap" />


	<p>
	Instead of simple grids, row templates allow you to layout all
	aspects of each row. Images can be aligned in different positions,
	elements can be aligned relative to each other, and areas can be
	designated as <i>selectable</i>.


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/20/dark-theme-top-eclipse-luna-feature-5/">5.
	Dark Theme</a>
	</h2>
	<p>Developers are passionate about their tools, and many developers
	take great pride in customizing the look and feel of their
	development machines. With the dark theme, Eclipse now looks
	beautiful on a development machines with other dark system settings
	enabled.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/dark.png" alt="dark theme" />


	<p>Eclipse Luna is also shipping with a new set of platform icons
	which improve the look on both light and dark themes and of course
	the theme is cross-platform, supporting Mac, Linux and Windows.


	<h2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/20/snip-match-top-eclipse-luna-feature-4/">4.
	SnipMatch</a>
	</h2>
	<p>
	<a target="_blank" href="http://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/">Code
	Recommenders</a> is one of the most exciting and innovative
	plug-ins available for Eclipse. With standard <em>content-assist</em>,
	Eclipse will show you all the method calls, variables uses, template
	options, etc... for the current context. Most of these options are
	irrelevant, and if you're learning a new API, all these options can
	be confusing. Furthermore, listing the code completion options in
	alphabetical order provides very little value. Code recommenders
	aims to fix this by displaying the available completions options
	according to their relevance.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/snipmatch.png" alt="snipmatch" />


	<p>SnipMatch by Code Recommenders lets developers search for, and
	quickly insert, code snippets. API usage is often more than method
	calls, requiring proper setup, usage and possibly teardown code.
	With SnipMatch, entire blocks of templated code can be inserted with
	a single click. To use SnipMatch, install code recommenders and
	press CTRL+ALT+Space.


	<h2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/23/git-improvements-top-eclipse-feature-luna-3/">3.
	EGit Improvements</a>
	</h2>
	<p>
	Git tools for Eclipse (EGit) started in 2009 and has improved by
	leaps and bounds each year. Over the past 12 months a number of
	notable improvements have been added to EGit. You can now directly
	edit commits from the history view. You can also select multiple
	consecutive commits and <em>squash</em> them.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/git.png" alt="git" />


	<p>Interactive rebase has also been implemented. With interactive
	rebase, commits can be removed, squashed, edited or modified. The
	order of the commits can also be altered. Finally, the blame
	annotations in EGit have been greatly improved. A diff is shown
	in-line as well as links to the parent commit.


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/24/split-editors-top-eclipse-luna-feature-2/">2.
	Split Editors</a>
	</h2>
	<p>After 12 years, 200 votes, and over 181 comments, split editors
	have finally be introduced to Eclipse. Editors can be split
	horizontally ( CTRL+_ ) or vertically ( CTRL+{ ) allowing you to
	edit two parts of a file at the same time.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/split.png" width="700" alt="split" />


	<p>

	In addition to split editors, a number of other notable improvements
	have been added to platform. Perspectives can be re-ordered, GTK+3
	is a proper SWT port, and line numbers are now on by default. For a
	full list of what's new in the Eclipse Platform, checkout the <a
	href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.4/final/eclipse-news-part1.php">New
	and Noteworthy</a>.


	<H2>
	<a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/06/25/java-8-support-top-eclipse-luna-feature/">1.
	Java 8 Support</a>
	</H2>
	<p>Eclipse now has first class tool support for Java 8! From the
	Eclipse Java Compiler, to Maven integration. From the Memory
	Analyzer to the Java tooling, full Java 8 support is here.


	<p>
	<img src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/jdt.png" alt="jdt" />


	<p>
	The Java Tools provide <em>quick-fixes</em> for converting anonymous
	inner classes to lambda expressions as well as in-line lambda
	refactoring support. Eclipse also has support for lambda debugging
	and breakpoints. Code formatters for Java 8 constructs are available
	as is support for type annotations, including a set of annotations
	for null analysis. There is also a number of other enhancements such
	as better type inference, support for effectively final variables
	and default methods.


	<p>
	Java 8 represents one of the biggest Java releases ever. The Eclipse
	committers as a whole, and the JDT team in particular, should be
	really proud of the great work they did with <A
	HREF="http://eclipse.org/luna">Luna</a>.


	<p>
	Thank-you to everyone involved with the Eclipse Luna release! For
	more Eclipse Tips and Tricks, you can follow me on <a
	href="https://twitter.com/irbull">Twitter</a>.


	<div class="bottomitem">
	<h3>About the Authors</h3>

	<div class="row">
	<div class="col-sm-12">
	<div class="row">
	<div class="col-sm-8">
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	src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/june/images/ian_bull2.PNG"
	alt="Ian Bull" />
	</div>
	<div class="col-sm-16">
	<p class="author-name">
	Ian Bull <br />
	<a target="_blank" href="http://eclipsesource.com/">EclipseSource</a>
	</p>
	<ul class="author-link">
	<li><a target="_blank"
	href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/author/irbull/">Blog</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/irbull">Twitter</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank"
	href="https://plus.google.com/b/107434916948787284891/110293252086584362394/posts">Google
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