The Eclipse Project has posted the fourth 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. This release adds assorted cool new features. Most importantly you can now link resources from anywhere in the filesystem into a project. (Requiring a particular file system layout has long been a problem in most IDEs.) Other new features include:
SWT has also been much improved with
There's quite a bit more. This is really quite an impressive milestone.
The fourth release candidate of Mantis 1.0, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) bug tracking system based on PHP and MySQL, has been posted. This release fixes security and other bugs. All users should upgrade.