what's new in eclipse mars
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19.8.2015
Selfie of the Mars Rover!
Agenda
New projects
New cool stuff
New Eclipse SDK features
In the release train…
Oomph Installer
Docker tools integration
Automated Error Reporting
UI Responsiveness Monitor
Oomph installer
Preferences Questionnaire
Docker Engine
Docker tools in Eclipse
Docker perspective to connect to Docker daemon
Views to manage Docker images and running containers.
Create Docker Images, push & pull from repositories
Start, Stop, Pause, Resume Docker containers.
Automated Error Reporting
UI Responsiveness Monitor
In the Eclipse SDK…
Hierarchical view of nested projects
Customize & Reset Perspective are back
Close tabs to Left/Right in the Editor
Improved "Open With..." dialog
"Open Resource" dialog can now filter duplicate resources
Speed improvements for text search
Mac OS X distribution now an Application Bundle
Improvements to the Dark Theme
GTK+ 3 used by default on Linux distributions (when installed and available)
Dropped support for GTK+ versions older than 2.18 in Eclipse launcher
e4 tools integrated into Eclipse platform
Create an E4 project from "New Plug-in" wizard
Console ViewAutomatic scroll-lock
Word wrap
Terminate/Disconnect All
APIsNew JobGroup API (org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.JobGroup) to easily implement parallel algorithms.
The JFace StructuredViewer class now has an API to access the IStructuredSelection directly
Luna
Mars
SWT APIsMenuItem.setToolTipText() - Support to set a tooltip on menu items.
SWT Color class supports specifying an alpha value (integer: 0 to 255) for transparency.
Control's background can be set as transparent with a Color with alpha value or using SWT.COLOR_TRANSPARENT.
Support for auto text direction. Use (SWT#LEFT_TO_RIGHT | SWT#RIGHT_TO_LEFT) bit fields in Control#setTextDirection.
Thank You!