What to expect from Eclipse 3.1
The #Eclipse Foundation is targeting release of #Eclipse 3.1 for late June 2005. There have been seven milestone releases of version 3.1 dating back to August 2004. The #Eclipse Requirement Council identified six major themes that the technical community will deliver on:
- Scaling Up
- Enterprise Ready
- Design for Extensibility
- Rich Client Platform
- Simple to Use
- Appealing to the Broader Community
As with previous releases, the #Eclipse development team is committed to preserving backward compatibility with previous version of #Eclipse. #Eclipse 3.1 will be compatible with #Eclipse 3.0 for API (contract), Binary (plug in), Source and Workspace. Most of the #Eclipse SDK is "pure" #Java code and has no direct dependence on the underlying operating system. The 3.1 release of the #Eclipse Project is written and compiled against version 1.4 of the #Java 2 Platform APIs, and targeted to run on version 1.4 of the #Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition.
Eclipse SDK 3.1 is tested and validated on the following platforms:
- Microsoft Window XP (Win 32) on Intel x86
- Red Hat Enterprise #Linux WS 3 (GTK) on Intel x86
- SUSE #Linux Enterprise Server 9 (GTK) on Intel x86
- Sun Solaris 8 (Motif) on SPARC
- HP-UX 11i (Motif) on hp9000 PA-RISC
- IBM AIX 5L v5.2 (Motif) on PowerPC
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3 (Carbon) on PowerPC
More information about #Eclipse 3.1 can be found Here
