IBM has just released two value-added Eclipse 3.2 bundles that include key projects in the Callisto release: Web Tools Platform and the Callisto Graphical Modeling Framework. In addition to the new Callisto releases, you can also download the IBM Rational Software Development Platform tools for Linux that are built on the Eclipse 3.0 platform.
It seems that GMF & WTP are only available as Win32 zips – so sad (has someone seen non-Win releases anywhere?). I use Eclipse on a Mac as well, mostly for the pydev (python) environment. It seems that there are several features that don’t completely work on Macs. Auto-completion in Eclipse/pydev seems to only work on my XP laptop, which is a real shame as that’s one of the most important features of a modern editor. I don’t really do much with Java these days, I’ve grown to like Python – so despite this Mac issue, I think Eclipse is wonderful. I’ve yet to try any of the other Callisto projects, the GMF seems interesting though. Hopefully, the other projects operate correctly on non-Win platforms (I’m led to believe my install may have gone haywire).
Actually, all of this stuff has been available through the Eclipse Update Sites (executed from within Eclipse) since they were released on the 30th. The only difference here is that you can get yourself an “all-in-one” version. There are several other cool Callisto projects that are available through the update site.
I also should mention that I am running Eclipse with the WTP plugins on my Macs since June.
Yes, I just found the plugins – and I can see they do work on Mac. Sadly, autocomplete still does not work for me (pydev on Mac) even using the “EasyEclipse for Python” release. Has anyone else gotten Python auto-complete working on Mac? I don’t even seem to have a valid Outline View window – it shows up empty.
I will prefer these <a href=”http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html“>dsitri… of eclipse.
EasyEclipse seems a great project.
It is a great project indeed but it is 3.1.2 based. 3.2 is out but it seems a lot of those plugins work just fine in 3.2. Must say Eclipse did a good job in not breaking a lot of older plugins. 3.2 is quite zippy!
Callisto has been out for weeks now…is this something different than what the Eclipse project released last month? I realize the rational tools are something different…but WTP and GMF were released w/ Callisto a while ago.
I switched to Netbeans 5.5 for my Java EE needs since WTP still doesn’t support Java EE 5. However, I watch eclipse and this announcement was made on June 30th.
http://www.eclipse.org/callisto/
Any news when Eclipse is going to have JEE 5 compliance?
As far as I know, there is no real ETA on that. They have the Dali project for EJB3 but it’s in pretty sad shape at this point, too early for serious use. From what I hear, Dali will be part of WTP eventually.
If Eclipse had solid Java EE 5 capabilities I’m not sure I would have switched to Netbeans. However, at the rate NB is improving, I’m not sorry I switched.
I have been playing with Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2 and despite not using the Enterprise Pack Beta 2 which isn’t out yet, it is quite staggering at what can be done in the IDE! Eclipse is nowhere near the functionality that Netbeans has. I kind of like in a way Netbeans being an underdog. I know there is a huge momentum behind Eclipse but I dont see why other than the rather excellent editor. There are plugins available but they are not easy to find in Eclipse and most people I have seen and talked to rarely use plugins! I just cannot see how one can be productive if one has to write tons of EJBs and J2EE code without tearing their hair out in Eclipse because of the lack of easy to use wizards and features that are in Netbeans expecially 5.5! And then I read that 6.0 is going to have some awesome new editor features which Netbeans usually always lacked in…looks like the Sun team are very aggressive and really want to take this downtime to make Netbeans as powerful as they can while no one is looking at it! Oh and did I mention the Creator pack that is supposed to be released for netbeans at the end of the year? The development on that IDE is staggering! I think Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 and Netbeans 5.5 and Intelij IDEA 5.1 are the best IDEs on the market. I dont see why Eclipse or its rather bloated cousin RAD 6 and WSAD are so popular…could be because of the application server…