The Eclipse Project has posted the first milestone of Eclipse 3.2, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. It also doubles as a base platform for your own applications, an alternative to the AWT and Swing, and a powerful floor wax and dessert topping. There's not a lot new in 3.2, some minor user interface improvements, sort direction indicators in table and tree headers, reorderable columns in tables. The cool new feature is the ability to paste a code snippet into the Package Explore and have Eclipse automatcially create a compilation unit for that snippet. That shoudl be useful for testing and expoerimentation.