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Bleeding Edge 04-11-06: Eclipse Endgame

At 10:56 PM on Apr 11, 2006, R.J. Lorimer wrote:

EndGame First and foremost, the Eclipse end-game is now available here:

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/3.2-endgame-buildschedule.html

If you didn't just scour over this plan with a fine-tooth comb, this Thursday (4/13) represents the deadline for RC1, RC2 for Friday 4/28, RC3 for Friday 5/5, and RC4 for Friday 5/12.

BetterCamelCaseSearchSupport

Eclipse has had support for doing class searches using camel-case for a while now. If you wanted to find NullPointerException , you could type NPE , and you'd find it. Camel-case is a very quick and convenient way to do searches; and with the new releases it will now get even better. The search engine now supports mixed searching, where you only fill in the key bits, but it's more than just camel-case. For instance, for NullPointerException you could type 'NuPoEx', or you could type 'NullPE', etc. This helps you type more hybrid search syntax to further nail down what you're looking for, with a minimum of additional characters typed.

Performance, Performance, Performance, and dare I say... Performance

I recently wrote about performance improvements in Eclipse JDT for M6/RC0 , and the trend is definitely continuing into RC1, particularly in the Java development tools. Here are some quotes from the weekly planning notes:

Platform/JDT Text
(...)
- performance work
- reduced AST creation
- reduced updating of marker ruler actions

JDT UI
(...)
- bug fixing and performance improvements for text search

JDT Core
(...)
- performance work: faster reconciling of large editor contents

APT
(...)
- perf improvements
- improve time for fetching types

Things are certainly slowing down in the realm of 'new features', but now things start to look really shiny and pretty for the upcoming final drop.

Until next time,

R.J. Lorimer
Contributing Editor - rj -at- javalobby.org
Author              - http://www.coffee-bytes.com
Software Consultant - http://www.numbersix.com

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