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Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) is available

June 23rd, 2011 No comments

On time, The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). In reality, Indigo is a version that contains dozens of projects including the Eclipse platform, Java development tools, Source control tools, GUI designers, and much more. This is the eighth year in a row that the Eclipse community relax your version of Eclipse on time.

Statistics Indigo:

  • 62 project team participated
  • 46 million lines of code
  • 408 developers have contributed code
  • 49 organizations have collaborated on this release
  • 10 predefined packages that allow easy download and use

Indigo includes important new features for Java developers, Innovations in modeling technology, Advances in technology and the Eclipse Runtime.

The main new features for Java developers:

  • EGit release 1.0 offers first-class support for Java developers with Git for source code management
  • WindowBuilder., class Eclipse-based GUI builder, is now available as open source project Eclipse.
  • Automated GUI tests for Java applications and HTML included in Jubula.
  • m2eclipse creates tight integration with Maven and the Eclipse workspace, allowing developers to work with Maven projects directly from Eclipse.
  • Mylyn 3.6 Hudson build supports monitoring directly from the workspace Eclipse.
  • Marketplace Eclipse Client now supports drag and drop installation of Eclipse-based solutions directly in Eclipse making it much more easily deploy new solutions.
  • Preliminary support for Java 7 (short).

Other important changes to the platform:

  • Implementation of the next OSGi Core Specification R4.3.
  • Multi-touch.
  • Support for WebKit on all platforms (Windows, Linux and OS X).
  • Numerous improvements in Cocoa for OS X.

Indigo is available for immediate download from www.eclipse.org/downloads . In addition to the Eclipse platform 3.7 production, Indigo release also includes a preview of the next generation, version 4.1, available from the download page 4.x.

For more information:

Eclipse Indigo – New and Noteworthy
The numbers of Indigo
Eclipse Java 7 Beta installation instructions (currently unavailable – Please try again later)

Source: zdnet.com

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