Yet another Eclipse milestone release: 3.1M1
Another milestone of Eclipse has just been released: 3.1M1. (New and Noteworthy).
Eclipse has many features that i wish the jdeveloper team would copy: viewing files and folders in the application navigator, double click on a tab to maximize it, refactorings, etc, etc, etc. Many of these features will be in the next release of jdeveloper, which is good.
But I just realised that the best thing the jdeveloper team could copy from the eclipse team is not one of the features in the IDE. I wish jdeveloper would adopt eclipse’s release schedule. There’s a new version of eclipse about every 2 months. The wait for a new version of jdeveloper is a lot longer. I wouldn’t mind having some bug fixes and new features earlier. Ofcourse, Eclipse’s milestones are officially all alpha and beta quality, but from my experience they have been pretty good, and i don’t mind using a milestone for production work. If it doesn’t work, you can always switch back to the latest stable release.
August 17th, 2004 at 12:58 pm
Here, here. There were some plans at one stage to do something like this (more frequent pre production releases) with the current version of JDev in development, but I’m not sure what happened to that. I think it’s probably a victim of the sheer amount of work going into 10.1.3 (we’re piling functionality into the product at an exhilirating rate, but this naturally affects the short term stability of the builds).
FWIW, rather than just copying features from Eclipse, we need to selectively add particular productivity features to the IDE that will immediately improve the product for most of our customers. I agree with you that there’s a lot of stuff in Eclipse which is very useful for Java developers. Hopefully the next release of JDeveloper will take a big step forward in terms of improving developer productivity.