Eclipse: Ganymede Upgrade is Here
Eclipse, a malleable open-source programming editor and home to many a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) celebrated its Ganymede upgrade Wednesday. According to the Eclipse Foundation, “The Ganymede Release is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams that represents over 18 million lines of code.”
Included in the upgrade is a new JavaScript IDE, editor and debugger, a built-in SQL query editor, and plenty of new and upgraded Java tools. For a full listing, check out the Ganymede press release.
The team celebrated by hosting an EclipseDay mini-conference at the Google campus in Mountain View. Go figure. For a peak into this programming-heavy affair, check out this screencast from Mustafa K. Isik on Real-Time Shared Editing on Eclipse.
Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing from Mustafa K. Isik on Vimeo.
Eclipse, originally developed by IBM in 2001 and continued by The Eclipse Foundation in 2004, is primarily a code editor. The software has many features available to it including embedded CVN and SVN version control, hundreds of plug-ins, resources and programming environments.
Other Editors/IDEs on the market include IntelliJ and Microsoft Visual Studio or Apple’s XCode and TextMate for the Mac OS. Eclipse is free, multi-platformed and open-sourced, making it very popular in the development community.
