New and Noteworthy

It always comes as a surprise to people when I tell them that we at the Eclipse Foundation don’t consider anything that we distribute to be a product. It’s a surprise, because basically everybody in the world thinks that the Eclipse IDE is a product and has thought that way...

Java 9 support has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But you can add an early access preview to your existing Eclipse Mars install. The Eclipse Java 9 Support (BETA) contains the following: ability to add JRE and JDK 9 as installed JRE; support for JavaSE-1.9 execution environment...

The Customize Perspective dialog is back! Use this dialog to configure the visible menu, toolbar, action sets and shortcuts in your workbench. This functionality was broken in Eclipse 4.2, together with the the ability to reset the perspective.

With Eclipse Mars, the automatic updates option is turned on by default. With this, Eclipse will periodically check with our servers to see if there are any updates available and give users the option to download and install them. Use the “Automatic Updates” preferences page to further tune the update...

Develop, run, and test Apache Cordova applications for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile devices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Eclipse Mars includes new Quick Assists (Ctrl+1) for Java developers. Add and remove the parentheses around lambda parameter: Explicitly add the inferred types of the parameters in a lambda expression: Convert from method reference to lambda expression: Or from lambda expression to method reference: The full set of Eclipse Project...