Eclipse e(fx)clipse™ 2.3.0

2.3.0

Description

As in former releases the main focus was put on the runtime components. The main features have been

  • accessibility improvements to make e4 on JavaFX eg in government environments
  • code editor framework
    • code navigation improvements
    • decoration system to eg show error markers in text sections which lead to a complete rewrite of the StyledTextArea internals
API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues

Most time was spend in improving the StyledTextArea-Control adding feature known from the SWT-Text-Framework like:

  • Hover information
  • Error decorations
  • Improved code navigation

which lead to a complete rewrite of the internals (implementing a custom virtual flow, ...) to improve performance.

Security Issues

none

Communities

User

There's a steady flow of questions on our project forum. Ranging from beginner questions to more in depth questions

Adopter

We see a big uprise in commercial adoption - not visible in the public yet - people building large scale enterprise applications on top of e(fx)clipse.  Companies started sponsoring features (StyledTextArea improvements)