Whats new in Eclipse Oxygen!
- 1. Eclipse Oxygen series: What’s New in the Eclipse Platform Lakshmi P Shanmugam, SWT Committer & Co-lead, IBM
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- 3. Agenda What’s new in: ❖ Platform ❖ JDT ❖ Debug (Platform & JDT) ❖ PDE 3
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- 5. Generic Editor ❖ Generic & easily Extensible text editor ❖ Easy to provide text editor support for new languages/content-types. ❖ Extend to contribute specific functionality - syntax highlighting, content- assist, hover support ❖ Can consume features from multiple sources via specific extension points. ❖ Plug-in project template for generic editor extension ❖ Adopted by Team & PDE ❖ .patch & .diff files ❖ target definition files (.target) ❖ Adopted by eclipse projects such as LSP4E, TM4E 5
- 6. Editors ❖ Image files open in Eclipse internal browser ❖ Editor selection dialog: Use for all ❖ Compare editor: configure left & right sides ❖ Quick Switch Editor improvements ❖ Show annotation renamed to Show revision information 6
- 7. Quick Access ❖ Improved string matching ❖ Wildcards ❖ Quick access search text in Help ❖ Filter previous choice ❖ Command icons 7
- 8. Views ❖ Toggle Status bar ❖ Simplified filter dialog for Problems/Bookmarks/Tasks view & now easier to reach ❖ Copy details submenu for Problems & Tasks view ❖ Copy build id information in About dialog 8
- 9. Preferences ❖ Window title configuration ❖ Copy preferences during workspace switch ❖ Always run in background - by default ❖ GTK tree collapse/expand key bindings 9
- 11. Editors ❖ Open Implementation of selected Type ❖ Automatically insert braces at correct position ❖ Escape text while pasting into String literal ❖ Quick fix to move type annotations ❖ Defaults for annotation type in javadoc ❖ Set javadoc foreground & background colour 11
- 12. Java Views & Dialogs ❖ Skip button in Organize imports dialog ❖ Hide inherited members from java.lang.Object ❖ Hide deprecated fields & methods ❖ Group by project in search view is the default ❖ JUnit view - Show JUnit failure trace in console view 12
- 13. Java Compiler & Formatter ❖ New experimental java index - disabled by default ❖ Warnings for unlikely argument types ❖ Formatter - new way to count comment width 13
- 14. Debug 14
- 15. Platform Debug ❖ Launch Group ❖ Terminate and Relaunch from Run menu, context menu, toolbar ❖ Sort breakpoints by creation time ❖ Breakpoints in overview ruler 15
- 16. JDT Debug ❖ Last Method result after step operations ❖ Trigger point ❖ Conditional watchpoint ❖ Tracepoint ❖ Show logical structure by default 16
- 18. ❖ New Layout Spy Tool - Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F9 ❖ Category Editor: Support for Nested Categories ❖ Install Dialog: non-modal & provides progress feedback ❖ Manage versions in PDE feature editor ❖ Quick fix to add bundle/package adds import statement ❖ Validate launch configuration by default 18
- 19. API Tools ❖ Change in Execution environment - version problem ❖ Default method addition to Interface - breaking change ❖ Field addition to Class - breaking change ❖ Configure severity through Quick Fix ❖ @noimplement & @noextend Types processed by API leak analysis 19
- 20. DS Annotations ❖ https://wiki.eclipse.org/ PDE/DS_Annotations ❖ Support for Declarative Services (DS) Annotations v1.3 ❖ Enable the feature from preferences 20
- 21. General Improvements ❖ Improved Hi-DPI support ❖ Improved Dark Theme support ❖ Eclipse as Apple Disk Image (dmg) on Mac 21
- 22. Java 9 preview ❖ https://wiki.eclipse.org/Configure_Eclipse_for_Java_9 ❖ Configure Eclipse Oxygen to launch with Java 9 ❖ -vm ❖ —add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM * ❖ Install Eclipse Java 9 Support (BETA) for Oxygen * - can change in the future 22
- 24. Lakshmi P Shanmugam lshanmug@in.ibm.com Thank You! 24
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- 26. Hi-DPI support improvements ❖ High resolution images added ❖ Blurry line number ruler on mac Retina display fixed ❖ New SWT API added - Image.getImageData(int zoom) ❖ JFace ImageDescriptor and CompositeImageDescriptor are fully HiDPI ready 26
- 27. Styling & Dark Theme ❖ Improved default styling for toolbar & form based UI ❖ Reduced window margins ❖ Support for extending existing CSS preference nodes ❖ Styling for Table & Tree headers ❖ Colors in interactive pop-ups ❖ Fixed progress view colors 27