I had downloaded Eclipse Oxygen when it came out in June. Then I downloaded the September version for early Java 9 support along with the JUnit 5 add on for the JavaOne Hands On Lab I delivered. This required downloading the Eclipse plugin. I’m giving a similar/longer JUnit 5 lab at DevNexus this month. It makes sense to start with a clean version for students to install. Therefore I decided to install Eclipse Oxygen for the third time.
This time I downloaded the December release of Oxygen (4.7.1a). It includes JUnit 5 and Java 9 support.
Installing
I downloaded Eclipse and chose “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers” from the wizard.
Opening Eclipse, I confirmed that I was using the December 2017 package.
Installing the plugins
The significant plugins I chose to re-install are listed in this table. eGit, Buildship (for Gradle), m2e (Maven) and I think EclEmma were already installed without me doing anything.
| Plugin | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Tomcat Plugin | One click launch for recent versions of Tomcat. Both are listed as being successors to Sysdeo. While both seem fine, I went with the “Eclipse Tomcat Plugin” that I had before updating Oxygen. |
| SonarLint | I use SonarLint daily to look for errors in my code. |
| Subclipse | I got errors installing Subversive last time and switched to Subclipse. |
| Eclipse Memory Analyzer | For finding memory leaks. Unlike last year with Neon, it installed cleanly from Eclipse Marketplace. |
| Freemarker IDE | Freemarker syntax highlighting and macro assistance.
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| Pydev | Python plugin/perspective |
| Contrast | To spot potential security issues. See my impressions of the Contrast plugin. |
| Bytecode Outline | I’ve been looking at bytecode a good fit for the book to make sure I understand why things are happening. This plugin makes it easy. I first tried Bytecode Visualizer but install failed. (The website says there were 25 failed installs with the same dependency problem in the last 7 days). After installing Bytecode Outline, I realized this was the one I had installed for Luna anyway. |
| Pitclipse | For mutation testing coverage |