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| <td align=left colspan="5"> <font class=indextop> What's new in Eclipse Platform |
| 3.1 </font><br> |
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| Version 3.1 of the Eclipse Platform includes many new and improved features |
| organized across the following themes:</p> |
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| <li><a href="#performance">Performance & scalability</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#ease">Ease of use</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#rcp">Rich Client Platform (RCP) tool support</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#j2se">J2SE 5 support</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#enterprise">Enterprise-ready</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#extensibility">Design for Extensibility - Being a Better |
| Platform</a></li> |
| <li> <a href="#community">Appealing to the Broader Community</a><br> |
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| <h3><a name="performance"></a>Performance & scalability</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Large-scale workspaces</li> |
| <li>Performance improvements</li> |
| <li>Added critical performance instrumentation</li> |
| <li>Scalability</li> |
| <li>RCP performance improvements</li> |
| <li>Single JAR plug-ins</li> |
| <li>Support for per-plug-in search index</li> |
| <li>Breakpoint improvements<br> |
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| <h3><a name="ease"></a>Ease of Use</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Overhaul of preferences dialog</li> |
| <li>Ant editor improvements</li> |
| <li>Initial user experience improvements</li> |
| <li>New Help view and Dynamic help</li> |
| <li>Help search enhancements</li> |
| <li>JDT usability improvements</li> |
| <li>Debugger usability improvements</li> |
| <li>Preferences dialog filtering</li> |
| <li>Pervasive context help pane |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| The preferences dialog has been significantly updated to provide more flexibility |
| and control for the user's overall experience. </td> |
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| <h3><a name="rcp"></a>Rich Client Platform (RCP) tool support</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>RCP performance</li> |
| <li>RCP infrastructure</li> |
| <li>RCP API</li> |
| <li>OSGi</li> |
| <li>Dynamic plug-ins</li> |
| <li>JNLP Support</li> |
| <li>Support for launcher branding</li> |
| <li>Provide better text editor support for RCP</li> |
| <li>RCP application templates</li> |
| <li>Improved tooling</li> |
| <li>See http://www.eclipse.org/community/rcp.html for examples of real |
| applications |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3><a name="j2se"></a>J2SE 5 support</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Eclipse compiler passes JCK test suite</li> |
| <li>Eclipse compiles JDK 1.3, 1.4, 5.0</li> |
| <li>Provides "deep" tooling support for new J2SE 5.0 features |
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| <li>Existing features fully J2SE 5 aware |
| <ul> |
| <li>Quick fix/quick assist</li> |
| <li>Refactoring</li> |
| <li>Search </li> |
| <li>Formatter</li> |
| <li>Debugging</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>J2SE 5.0 specific support |
| <ul> |
| <li>Auto boxing highlighting</li> |
| <li>Infer type arguments refactoring</li> |
| <li>Compiler diagnosis for 'enum' identifier</li> |
| <li>Quick assist to convert to enhanced for loop</li> |
| <li>Operating on generic type parameters</li> |
| <li>New Quick Assists for conditional statements and convert to |
| enhanced for-loop</li> |
| <li>Evaluation support for generics and enhanced for-loops</li> |
| <li>Varargs argument needing a cast</li> |
| <li>Annotations</li> |
| <li>Many J2SE 5.0 specific compiler diagnostics</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>API |
| <ul> |
| <li>Fully support J2SE 5.0 features</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3><a name="enterprise"></a>Enterprise-ready</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Working in large workspaces<br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Reified working sets in the package explorer</li> |
| <li>Grouping of breakpoints</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Settings<br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Shared settings per project</li> |
| <li>Import/export of settings</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>CVS Improvements<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>Plug-in JAR signing</li> |
| <li>Architectural access restrictions</li> |
| <li>Update Manager Improvements</li> |
| <li>JUnit - large scale test suites |
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| <li>Test prioritization</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3><a name="extensibility"></a>Design for Extensibility - Being a Better |
| Platform</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Refactoring of action contributions<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>New APIs |
| <ul> |
| <li>generalized undo/redo<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>content types</li> |
| <li>ltk (language toolkit) enhancements</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Push down JDT specific functionality<br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>editor linking</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Architectural Access Restrictions</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3><a name="community"></a>Appealing to the Broader Community</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Ant<br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Editor improvements</li> |
| <li>Ant Debugger</li> |
| <li>Import/export of Ant build files</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Improved compiler checking<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>Improve support for externalized strings</li> |
| <li>Improve program manipulation infrastructure</li> |
| <li>JFace and Workbench support BIDI</li> |
| <li>File names containing colon and backslash characters</li> |
| <li>Import/Export to tar.gz format</li> |
| </ul> |
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