New and noteworthy in Eclipse 4.5 Mars

Simon Scholz

https://twitter.com/simonscholz

Rough Agenda

New Features in Mars

How to make use of these Features

Eclipse 4 and migration to it

What's next?

Other nice tools

Please ask questions at any the time!

Eclipse Buildship

http://blog.vogella.com/2015/04/17/buildship-on-the-mission-to-mars/

Hierarchical projects display

FLAT

HIERARCHICAL

Eclipse Console

AutomaticScrolllock

Word wrap

Terminate All

Vom Gradle Wrapper zum Word-Wrap in der Console

- Word wrap- Automatic scroll lock

Frage: Welcher Toolbar-Button ist fr Scrolllock?

Customize Perspective Dialog

Print Button hidden by default

-> Styling of Section's title
-> Styling for Buttons (OS dependent)
-> Use of native CSS for Unix
-> Inheritance
-> Transparency

InheritTransparent

Custom Scrollbars

http://www.codeaffine.com/2014/12/17/sacrilege-custom-swt-scrollbar/

http://blog.vogella.com/2015/01/26/nattable-with-custom-scrollbars/

Improved Icons

Platform-Project:org.eclipse.ui.images

Author: Tony McCrary

EPL 1.0

Monitor interactive performance

Contributed by Google including API in SWT to detect that.

SWT.PreEventSWT.PostEvent

Sending error messages with Eclipse Code Recommenders

New JobGroup API

New JobGroup APInew JobGroup("Example", maxThreads, initialJobAmount);

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=432049

int NUMBER_OF_LOGICAL_THREADS= Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();

JobGroup jobGroup = new JobGroup("Vogella-Jobs", NUMBER_OF_LOGICAL_THREADS, 1);

Job job= new SearchForEmployessJob();job.setJobGroup(jobGroup);job.schedule();

IStructuredSelection from StructuredViewers

TreeViewer treeViewer = new TreeViewer(parent);ISelection selection = treeViewer.getSelection();if(selection instanceof IStructuredSelection) {IStructuredSelection structuredSelection = (IStructuredSelection) selection;}

TreeViewer treeViewer = new TreeViewer(parent);ITreeSelection structuredSelection = treeViewer.getStructuredSelection();

TableViewer tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent);IStructuredSelection selection = tableViewer.getStructuredSelection();

- StructuredViewer always returns structured selection- Show org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredSelection.EMPTY- Never returns null

More on performance

Improved compiler performancehttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=434326

Default Heap SizeXms 256M (previously 40M)

Xmx 1024M (previously 512M)

0 ms delay for JDT code completion

Text search has been sped up by a factor 3x-4x for full workspace searches on multi-core machines.

E4 Tools Updatesite

E4 Project in New Plug-in wizard

Icons in the Model Editor and Spy

Xpaths in Model fragments

XPath for parent id in model fragmentsparentElementId="MyMenu1, MyMenu2"

parentElementId="xpath://*[@elementId='MyMenu1' or @elementId='MyMenu2']"

equals

Small but useful

Show tab restrictions

Migration Stats Part

http://opcoach.github.io/E34MigrationTooling/

Java Versions & Settings

Java 7 is required for Eclipse Mars

Java 8 will (likely) be used for Eclipse Neon

Eclipse Mars can be run with Java 9Don't forget to remove PermGem args!

Show permgem location in eclipse.ini file

E4 Projects in general

For MarsIAdaptable

AbstractSelectionDialog

And many more

For NeonJFace API

Eclipse Databinding

Modernes API!

More plans for Eclipse Neon

Performance and Stability

Usability improvements

Notification System from Mylyn

Default spell engine

More CSS features

1. Performance Monitoring feedback2. Smart Import Menu, Context Men Eintrge ausblenden Fullscreenmode3. Mylyn notification popup4. Bisher nur durch JDT defniert wandert in die Platform5. Neue CSS Properties. u.a. CSS 3 Neuer CSS Parser schneller und CSS 3 kompatibel Custom Scrollbars

Postfix Codecompletion

https://github.com/trylimits/Eclipse-Postfix-Code-Completion

Saneclipse

Useful Preferences

New Templates

And more...

http://saneclipse.vogella.com/

Be a part of Eclipse

Give FeedbackBugzilla

Forums

Join Eclipse DemoCamps and Hackathons

It became a lot easier to contribute

Auto-linking between Gerrit code reviews, commits and Bugzilla

Denis Roy

Do not miss the Eclipse Hackathon
18.09.2015 18:00

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Hackathon_Hamburg_2015_Q4

Thank you for your attention!

Simon Scholz

https://twitter.com/simonscholz

Sources

Twitter image by Slava Murava Kiss under creative commons license