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Monday, June 30. 2008

I've been using Eclipse Ganymede for a couple of days now and here are a couple of first impressions.

Overall, everything is faster. There's a snappiness to the UI compared to the last release.
There's a subversion client (subversive) bundled with the package which would be good news except that I couldn't get it to work. Apparently, it's deliberately broken since they're not allowed to ship some needed component so you need to download some extra piece. I tried for a bit and while I think I downloaded the right part, I never did get it working. Finally, I removed subversive and went back to subclipse and it's working fine for me.
The dynamic language support is now built-in although ruby support is still an extra step in the installation.
Syntax highlighting in ruby has taken a step backwards - it gets really confused by quotes in places other than strings (in regular expressions for example) and then makes a mess of the syntax highlighting after that. I've been able to work around this by putting comments with end quotes in them but this is clearly not ideal. I hope they get this one fixed soon.

Posted by Mike Bowler in Technology at 07:09

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I've been trying ganymede for days and my overall conclusion is that is the WORST realease ever in term of integration quality.

We have JEE5 tools but I couldn't make geronimo or glassfish work with it.
The JSF tooling if far from stable, the SOA tools are part of the release but not usable in a decent way yet.
The is no Visual Editor for Swing or SWT anymore....... Nobody need this?????
the Modeling tools just make eclipse crash again and again.

#1 Laurent on Jul 9 2008, 05:28 Reply

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