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Is it free: Yes

Tim's mate: Tod from OTI visited us back in XtC26101999, He has been working on IbmEclipse -- OliBye.

KentBeck and ErichGamma are writing a book about Eclipse; see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contributingtoeclipse -- IvanM - also Tod's mate :-)

• The new look and feel is a LAF. I'm not sure I like it yet. There does appear to be slightly more space available now the perspectives are up at the top.
• You need M8 to run the latest UML2 plugin.
• Option to bulid the working set, as opposed to all (previously I closed projects I wasn't using to avoid this).

• CVS now supports working sets (eg Preconfigured groups of projects
• Syncronization view now updated as soon as changes made to files in workbench
• A background process can optionally update the sync view with incoming changes periodically. This is a useful reminder to make small frequent releases and to resync as soon as possible.
• Ctrl-Shift-R brings up a window similar to Find-Type but for resources. It's a lot quicker than the search dialog. This may have been in for a long time but I've only just found it!

__3.0M2__

• ErichGamma demoed some new gadgets, I've not played with it yet. - OliBye.

__2.1__

• PDE supports building update sites (at last, it was a real pain, and badly documented).
• Annoying auto lie generator (javadoc comments)
• Project specific compiler and settings.
• Instance breakpoints and watchpoints
• Threads and Monitors view, shows locks and dead locks.
• In-place outlines. Try Ctrl-O to outline the current file and Ctrl-F3 to outline the object under the mouse cursor in the java editor.
• Unix like sym' links, enabling you to link to things not in the workspace.
• Lots of new refactorings. See documentation for detals, there are just too many!
• Improved Refactorings
• • Add Delegate Methods dialog
  • Pull Members Up
  • • you can compute the smallest set of members that need to be pulled up together in order to satisfy visibility constraints
• The create class, and create interface hot fixes are now much faster, they were awful!
• Consistent working sets on the package and navigator views.
• Hotswap method replacement during debugging can now handle more changes like adding expections to a running method.

2.0.1

• Ability to change a project's CVS repository (like 1.0 used to allow)
• Ability to change a text to binary and vice versa in CVS.

2.0

• Now has full project / package / type / member view & it can show single methods VAJ style
• Integrated Junit framework. You can click on the junit stack trace and see the failing assertion in the code.
• Runs different VM's.
• Integrates with CVS (Extremely cleverly IMHO)
• Apparently uses the standard JDB debugging API.
• Displays diffs visual (And has an excellent merge tool)
• Knows about ant
• Does local versioning when files are saved
• Hot swap method replacement in the debugger. using 1.3

Still to check:-

• • Works if using OTI's J9 VM, which is OK for servers but not for Swing applications.
• Works ok in general but the JVM crashes more frequently than I remember in VisualAge. Tested under 1.2,1.3, 1.4beta1/2/3/rc1. MpC
• Not sure what this new deploy thing does yet.

Issues:-

• The CVS integration has been 'unhidden' more access to CVS functionality, not sure if that is good:) (Hmm, the CVS directory problem seems ok now in M5)
• Doesn't support full TeamStreams

Issues now fixed in latest 2 stream:-

• Doesn't show signatures of .class files.
• Won't navigate within jar files
• code formatting and highlighting not too great. (fixed IMO:) )
• If you have a project already in CVS and it has branches at non-root nodes you have problems, because Eclipse can currently only map to a CVS branch at the top level. MpC (Now fixed, you can import from any level)
• extssh cvs access works -- OliBye