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| <title>Eclipse Project 4.14 - New and Noteworthy</title> |
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| <h2>Plug-in Development Environment</h2> |
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| <li><a href="#dialogs-wizards-views">Dialogs, Wizards and Views</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#editors">Editors</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#APITools">API Tools</a></li> |
| <!-- <li><a href="#pde-compiler">PDE Compiler</a></li> --> |
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| <td id="dialogs-wizards-views" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Dialogs, Wizards and Views</h2></td> |
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| <tr id="features-view-update"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550316 --> |
| <td class="title">Target Platform in Features view</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| Using the <b>Features</b> view you can now view the structure of features in the target platform in addition to the ones in your workspace projects. |
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| Features from workspace projects are shown first, followed by the ones from the target platform. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/features-view-with-target-platform-support.png" alt="" /> |
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| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="features-view-products"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550317 --> |
| <td class="title">Products in Features view</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| You can now view the structure of product configurations using the <b>Features</b> view. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/features-view-products.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="launch-sorted"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=231099 --> |
| <td class="title">Improved launch configuration persistence</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The file format of Eclipse Application, JUnit Plug-in Test and OSGi Framework launch configurations was updated to make them more SCM friendly. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <!-- ******************** Editors ********************** --> |
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| <td id="editors" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Editors</h2></td> |
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| <tr id="BREE-dependencies-warning"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552194 --> |
| <td class="title">Detect bundle's BREE lower than its dependencies</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| A warning will now appear in the <b>Plug-in manifest editor</b> when a bundle's dependency requires a higher execution environment than what is currently set. |
| <p> |
| The provided quick fix can automatically set the appropriate execution environment. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/BREE-dependencies-warning.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| A new PDE compiler preference <b>Bundle BREE lower than its dependencies</b> has been added to configure the severity of the problem. By default, it is set to warning. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-compilers-versioning.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <!-- ******************** End of Editors ********************** --> |
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| <td id="APITools" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>API Tools</h2></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="apiDescription-generator-app"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551417 --> |
| <td class="title">Application to generate API descriptor manifest</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| In addition to the legacy Ant tasks, PDE now provides a direct Eclipse application to generate API manifest |
| (typically <code>.api_description</code> files). |
| <p> |
| The Application id is <code>org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.apiGeneration</code> and it's arguments are the same as |
| for Ant tasks. The application can typically be invoked with command line as shown below: |
| <code>./eclipse -application org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.apiGeneration |
| -projectName org.eclipse.pde.ui |
| -project /home/git/eclipse.pde.ui/ui/org.eclipse.pde.ui |
| -binary /home/git/eclipse.pde.ui/ui/org.eclipse.pde.ui/target/org.eclipse.pde.ui-3.11.200-SNAPSHOT.jar |
| -target /home/git/eclipse.pde.ui/ui/org.eclipse.pde.ui/target/ |
| </code>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| This application can also be run using the Eclipse launch configuration UI and selecting |
| <b>org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.apiGeneration </b> application as shown below. The required arguments should |
| be specified in the program arguments. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-api-generation-application-ui.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
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| <tr id="report-error-on-unnecessary-change"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551197 --> |
| <td class="title">Report unnecessary change in minor and micro version</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| In addition to reporting minor version change without API changes, API tools now also reports the following unnecessary |
| minor and micro version change. |
| <ul> |
| <li>Minor version increased when major version was already increased in the release </li> |
| <li>Micro version increased when minor version or major version was already increased in the release.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-unnecessary-ver-increase-new.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| |
| The preference option <b>Report minor version change without API changes</b> has been renamed to |
| <b>Report unnecessary minor or micro version change</b>. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="expanded-reduced-superinterface-error-detail"> <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551146 --> |
| <td class="title">Expanded or reduced super interface API tool error has details</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The API tool error <b>Expanded or reduced super interface</b> now mentions which interface was added or removed |
| from the super interfaces hierarchy. |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/pde-expanded-reduced-interface.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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