The Eclipse Project has posted the fifth 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. Most importantly th8is milestone adds support for Java 6 Mustang and X86 Macs. Other new features include:
On the other hand they've added one very nasty "quick break", Remove brackets. This is a very bad idea. I have to go file a bug on this one. There. Done. Almost equally unwise is a quick assist to autogenerate hashCode() and equals() methods. I'm sorry, but these methods are just too tricky to expect a computer to get right. (Then again, they're so tricky that most humans don't get them right either most of the time.)
SWT has also been much improved with
There's quite a bit more. This is really quite an impressive milestone.