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Learning the new features of Eclipse

posted ‎‎Aug 25, 2008 11:13 PM‎‎ by Ronald Mathies
Eclipse has released it's version 3.4 (Ganymede) for some weeks now and this release contains quite some big improvements. A lot of these changes can be found in the New and Noteworthy pages. Although these pages give a nice idea about what has changed it can sometimes still be very nice to actually see some of the features
in more detail with a demo for example. The website live.eclipse.org contains a huge number of webinars, podcasts and demos. A list of demo's and webinars of the Ganymede release (or at least related to Ganymede) which might be interesting to take a look at can be found in this category, the demo's usually don't take that long but they give a good impression on how to use the new features.

My personal favorites are:

This demo presents an introduction to the new Java EE 5 features and the new Web services features that come with the Ganymede release of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project.
Bradley Childs introduces the new JavaScript Development Toolkit in Webtools 3.0. This presentation covers the 7 JSDT features and preferences.
This presentation shows how to get started working on Remote Resources with the Target Management Project in Ganymede. Some of the new TM 3.0 features are especially highlighted.
This presentation covers the significant new features that will be available in the graphical editing framework version 3.4 in the Ganymede release. Specifically the redesigned palette, Zest visualization toolkit, release engineering and component changes are demonstrated.
This presentation covers some of the features that will be available with DLTK 0.95. Specifically, the Project Wizard, Code Editor, Code Navigation, Code Assist and Launching and Debugging features will be discussed. Features are demonstrated using TCL, but also apply to Ruby.
This presentation covers some of the new features and changes that will be available with DTP 1.6. In particular, we’ll focus on Usability Changes to the UI as well as the SQL Query Builder, which is a new component, and integration with other Eclipse projects, such as BIRT and WTP.

In this screencast you are going to see some of the more interesting changes made to the Java development tools for the 3.4 release of Eclipse (Ganymede):

  • Extract class refactoring
  • New quick assists
  • Java editor breadcrumb