Eclipse Europa Whirlwind Tour

Simply put, Europa is a simultaneous release of 21 major projects in Eclipse.

It's worth noting that while the release of Europa and Eclipse has launched a series of projects, this does not mean that these projects are completely unified. Each project is still a separate open source project, each with its own project leadership, submitter, and development plan. In general, Europa can provide developers with a more transparent and predictable development cycle, which allows developers to greatly improve their productivity as they develop on eclipse projects. If you can determine the date the software is completed, this will make it easier to release the software.

Get Europa

Before we start to learn more about the 21 items, we'll do a quick, easy operation to install Europa on the computer.

The first step to getting Europa is to download the Eclipse V3.3 SDK. Next, start Eclipse and access the update management program through Help > Software Updates > Find and Install (see Figure 1). If the Europa search site does not contain updated site information for your current zone, you will need to enter the information manually (see Resources).

Figure 1. Update Site Configuration

After you connect to the Europa update site, you should see a list of available features that are part of the Europa release project (see Figure 2). It's as simple as that. After you connect to the update site, select the features you want to install into the Eclipse copy, and then use these features when you are ready to install. With just two simple steps, we can start using the Europa release.

Figure 2. Europa Update site

Distribution Series

I'll give you a brief overview of the projects below, and I've also cited my conversations with the Eclipse submitter, who introduced the exciting aspects of the Europa release project. These references come from my email conversations with the individual project submitter. See this exchange as a dialogue between developers-not empty hype and marketing, which is not allowed.