The Eclipse Project has posted the third 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 support for OpenGL in SWT, buttons with image and text, many text layout improvements, a hierarchical problem view mode, better Java project import, and various other improvements. I installed the Windows version, and it seems to work. I'm not sure I'd rush out to upgrade yet, but if you need to put a version on a new system, I don't see any particular reason to use an earlier version. Eclispe milestone releases feel pretty stable, and don't have a big history of breaking existing functionality. (Famous last words, I know.)