Eclipse development version Selection

 

Eclipse development version Selection

 

Veterans directly ignore this issue.

Open the download page of eclipse, and a large batch of eclipse is available for download. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/, there are a lot of new approaches to eclipsefrom the beginning. Here is a simple example of popular science.

Http://www.ceclipse.org/read-cec-tid-27421.html in this post said some, you can go to have a look. Is the download page of the latest version 3.7:

In fact, it is very easy to select the required eclipse.

1. Eclipse IDE for Java developers is developed for Java
2. Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers is developed for J2EE
3. Eclipse for RCP/plug-in developers is developed for RCP and plug-ins
4. Eclipse IDE for C/C ++ developers is developed for C/C ++
5. Eclipse Classic is its classic version.

So what is the difference between them? The biggest difference is that the title and decompression package size are different. After downloading and decompressing the package, you will find that different eclipse versions have different files under the plugins/features directory.

For a standard Eclipse, add some plug-ins required for Jee development, such as WTP and WST. It changes to "Eclipse IDE for Java ee. The same applies to others. As a skilled eclipse user, you can select any one and the required plug-in can be easily obtained from the eclipse official website.
Here we will introduce in detail the differences between the SDK version and runtime binary.

• SDK, which seems to be the abbreviation of the software development toolkit, which contains the source code.
• Runtime binary is just a runtime environment.

In other words, if you download the Binary Runtime version of Eclipse, under the Plugins directory, only the plug-ins "org. Eclipse. UI. ide_3.6.2.M20101201-0800.jar", while the SDK version is more
"Org. Eclipse. UI. Ide. source_3.6.2.M20101201-0800.jar" plugins, these are the source package for plugin. Eclipse extends the osgi manifest file and provides a custom header, indicating the source Plugin:

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1. Eclipse-sourcebundle: org. Eclipse. UI. Ide; version = "3.6.2.m20101201-0800
2. "; Roots: = "."

Most of the time, we need to check the eclipse plartform API or class source codes. For the SDK version of eclipse, the plug-in of the Source Plug-in is included. eclipse will directly help us with the link, this is very convenient for developers. If you use Binary Runtime unfortunately, eclipse will prompt you that the source cannot be found and you need to manually link it.

In this case, select the package with source. However, we recommend that you download the corresponding source-plugin from eclipse and put it in the Plugins directory or the dropins directory. Restart the system to view the source code.

For the downloaded version mentioned above, eclipse Classic is an SDK version with source, and others do not seem to have source (it is estimated that too many other plugins are added to save space) you need to download it yourself. For version 3.7, all packages can be renewed here.

I usually use eclipse classic. If you need other plug-ins, configure them myself.

 

Author: salever Date: December 14, 2011