Eclipse Oxygen IDE Improvements: General, Java and Git

Eclipse Oxygen has just been released! Thanks to all committers and contributors. Good job!

Watch 26 general, Java and Git IDE improvements in action:

General IDE

• 0:20 Launch Group
• 1:27 Quick Switch Editor: Ctrl+E to cycle through the list
• 1:46 Quick Access: Search with subwords and Search in Help
• 2:10 Switch Workspace: Copy Preferences
• 2:18 Eclipse User Storage
• 2:46 Non-modal Install dialog
• 3:01 Always run in background
• 3:07 Show/hide Status Bar
• 3:21 Window title configuration
• 3:37 Verbs instead of OK/No/Yes
• 3:46 Generic Text Editor

Java

• 4:12 Java code coverage analysis
• 4:46 JUnit: Show stack trace in Console
• 4:54 Braces positioning and text escaping
• 5:30 Skip button in Organize Imports dialog
• 5:48 Java Formatter: New possibility of calculating comment width
• 6:20 Warnings for unlikely argument types
• 6:57 Variables view shows last method result
• 7:11 Trigger for breakpoints
• 7:42 Breakpoints view: Sort by Creation Time
• 7:52 New Java index

Git

• 8:25 Drop Git URL to clone Git repository
• 8:48 Importing multiple projects from working tree
• 9:12 Double-click on staging view folder to expand it
• 9:22 Branch name normalizer
• 9:31 Git Staging: Commit and Push (Alt+M) and Commit (Alt+C)

Please note that my video does not cover C/C++, PHP, JavaScript and other improvements.

The six Oxygen webinars (each of them about 50 minutes long) provide or will provide a deeper insight. Java users are recommended to follow @EclipseJavaIDE on Twitter, which provides daily tips and tricks.

Download Eclipse Oxygen as long as it is still warm and happy coding!

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