Thursday, June 24, 2010

Eclipse Helios - A few interesting features!

An year old wait is over. Helios is out in the wild. Today morning, I downloaded Helios. Oops, my friend of eclipse download link got stuck. I went to the download link for the common public - eclipse.org/downloads. There goes the Helios Modeling Package.



Its a little annoying to see that GMF is not included part of the default bundles of modeling package. But, there is a quick way to install GMF in no time. I just hit the 'Install Modeling Components' toolbar button.

Some of the interesting features that captured my mind are,

1. Open an eclipse file from Command line




Based on SWT and the native launcher, the Eclipse Platform now supports opening a file from the command line.  If an instance of Eclipse is already running, that instance will open the file. Otherwise, a new instance will be started. 

2. A brand new OSGi console. You can watch whats under the hood of your eclipse ide. 



To open OSGi console, go to your Console View and select 'Host OSGi Console' from the view menu.

3. Eclipse Market Place Client



Thanks to the work by TaskTop, the creators of Mylyn, you can browse through all the interesting eclipse based apps quick and fast. Go to Help > Eclipse Market Place.

4. Headless Launch Support

A new headless plug-in "org.eclipse.pde.launching" is provided to launch applications without a user interface.

Thats all for now. Let me dig deep in to the Helios framework. View the other reviews on Eclipse Helios here.

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  1. Ashik ChJuly 9, 2010 at 12:16 AM

    This Eclipse version can be said as the most unstable version! My system had windows 7, 4GB ram, quad-core processor but this stupid eclipse helios is gettin stuck for every 5 min and after 10 min or so it is manking my system to hang off!! This was not the case of galileo or ganymade!! I dont know what happened to Oracle guys!I downloaded again and unzipped ..again same problem!!?? Is anyone facing the same??

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  2. MadhuJuly 9, 2010 at 8:44 AM

    Ash,

    For me, Eclipse Helios is working fine. BTW, Oracle guys?!!!

    Please post your concern in the eclipse forums at http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=89&

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  3. AnonymousJuly 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM

    Hello Madhu,
    I developed one RCP product in eclipse 3.3. I want to migrate it to eclipse 3.6 now. Is there any risk in migrating? What I need to take care?Its enough if I directly import the plugin projects to 3.6 and solve some problems/warning and then export?

    Regards,
    Chandrayya G K

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  4. MadhuJuly 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM

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  5. MadhuJuly 15, 2010 at 8:25 AM

    Chandrayya,

    As of now, I do not find any risk in migrating your product to 3.6. But I do not have analyzed 3.6 in depth.

    You can directly import the projects to 3.6 and solve the problems/warnings and then export.

    Please ask further questions regarding this in RCP forms at http://eclipse.org/forums/

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