1. What’s new in JDT?
Raksha Vasisht
IBM Bangalore lab, India
raksha.vasisht@in.ibm.com
Deepak Azad
IBM Bangalore lab, India
deepak.azad@in.ibm.com
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2. Java 7 Support in Eclipse Compiler – Current Status
Project Coin (JSR 334)
Strings in switch
Binary integral literals and underscores in numeric literals
Multi-catch and more precise rethrow
Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (diamond)
try-with-resources statement
Simplified Varargs Method Invocation
java.dyn.MethodHandle.invokeExact(..)/invokeGeneric(..) (JSR 292)
Unicode 6.0
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3. Java 7 Support in Eclipse Compiler – Current Status
All work is being done in ‘BETA_JAVA7’ branch.
Work started in the compiler, UI needs to be adapted as well.
More details: http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Java7
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4. Java 7 Support in Eclipse Compiler – Current Status
Demo
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5. Java 7 Support - Plan
Final decision to be made during M7 whether to ship with 3.7 or 3.7.1.
Most likely it will be 3.7.1, but in that case we will provide an update
site to install Java 7 support on top of 3.7.
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6. Beyond new features, improve overall stability !!
For 3.7 we have more than 500 bugs fixed
On March 16th, bugs fixed per sub component:
Core : 199
UI : 186
Text : 82
APT : 3
Debug: 36
Doc : 12
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7. Committers Participating in JDT
Daniel Megert Markus Keller
Deepak Azad Srikanth Sankaran Ayushman Jain
Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran
Raksha Vasisht Satyam Kandula
Olivier Thomann Curtis Windatt
Michael Rennie
Walter Harley Stephan Herrmann
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8. JDT – Tips and Tricks
For more information come to the short talk
JDT – Tips and Tricks
Tuesday, 14:00, Stevens Creek
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