Monday, July 2, 2007

Upgrading to Eclipse Europa

Eclipse Europa (3.3 final) is out. There are a couple of versions for Java Developers:

  • Java Developer Version
  • JEE Version
  • Classic Version (geared toward Rich Clients, I guess)
So, the JEE version was pulled from the download site because it was not installing correctly. The version I downloaded was the Java Developer version, but I still had to install a bunch of plug-ins to make it a useful IDE. The JEE version was supposed to solve this, oh well...
Do not forget to update your eclipse.ini file with your favorite environmental settings, for example my eclispe.ini has:

-showsplash
-showlocation
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 128M
-vm /home/dlucek/jdk6/bin/java
-vmargs
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-Xms256m
-Xmx700m
-Dosgi.bundlefile.limit=100
I installed the following plug-ins after installing Europa:

  • Use the Eclipse Europa Discovery Site to install WTP 2.0
  • Subclipse Version 1.2.3 works with Europa: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
  • Spring IDE 2.0 is out, the update site is: http://springide.org/updatesite

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