This presentation highlights some of the new and noteworthy features of Oxygen release of Eclipse IDE.

1. What’s New in Eclipse Oxygen!
Lakshmi P Shanmugam,
SWT Committer & Co-lead,
IBM
lshanmug@in.ibm.com
@lakshmip

3. Agenda
What’s new in:
❖ Platform
❖ JDT
❖ Debug (Platform & JDT)
❖ PDE
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4. Platform
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5. Editors
❖ Generic Editors - generic & easily extensible text editor
❖ Image files open in Eclipse internal browser
❖ Compare editor: configure left & right sides
❖ Quick Switch Editor improvements
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6. Quick Access
❖ Improved string matching
❖ Wildcards
❖ Quick access search text in Help
❖ Command icons
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7. Views
❖ Toggle Status bar
❖ Simplified filter dialog for Problems/Bookmarks/Tasks
view & now easier to reach
❖ Copy details submenu for Problems & Tasks view
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8. Preferences
❖ Window title configuration
❖ Copy preferences during workspace switch
❖ Always run in background - by default
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9. Java Development Tools
(JDT)

10. Editors
❖ Open Implementation of selected Type
❖ Automatically insert braces at correct position
❖ Escape text while pasting into String literal
❖ Quick fix to move type annotations
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11. Java Views & Dialogs
❖ Hide inherited members from java.lang.Object
❖ Hide deprecated fields & methods
❖ JUnit view - Show JUnit failure trace in console view
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12. Java Compiler & Formatter
❖ Warnings for unlikely argument types
❖ Formatter - new way to count comment width
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13. Debug
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14. Platform Debug
❖ Launch Group
❖ Terminate and Relaunch from Run menu, context menu,
toolbar
❖ Sort breakpoints by creation time
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15. JDT Debug
❖ Last Method result after step operations
❖ Trigger point
❖ Conditional watchpoint
❖ Tracepoint
❖ Show logical structure by default
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16. Plug-in Development Environment
(PDE)
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17. PDE
❖ New Layout Spy Tool - Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F9
❖ Install Dialog: non-modal & provides progress feedback
❖ Validate launch configuration by default

18. API Tools
❖ Change in Execution environment - version problem
❖ Default method addition to Interface - breaking change
❖ Field addition to Class - breaking change
❖ Configure severity through Quick Fix
❖ @noimplement & @noextend Types processed by API
leak analysis
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19. General Improvements
❖ Improved Hi-DPI support
❖ Improved Dark Theme support
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20. https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/
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21. After Oxygen…

22. ❖ Java 9 support
❖ JUnit 5 support
❖ Eclipse Photon

23. You can contribute too…

24. How you can contribute
❖ Download the Eclipse installer for Oxygen & install the
required package.
❖ Try out the new features
❖ Spread the word (Blog/Tweet)
❖ Report bugs
❖ Contribute a fix

25. Thank You!
e-mail: lshanmug@in.ibm.com
twitter: @lakshmip

26. Questions?

27. Java 9 preview
❖ https://wiki.eclipse.org/Configure_Eclipse_for_Java_9
❖ Configure Eclipse Oxygen to launch with Java 9
❖ -vm
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—add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM *
❖ Install Eclipse Java 9 Support (BETA) for Oxygen
* - can change in the future
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