Grab it before the bits decay: Eclipse 3.0 Milestone 5. Most notable changes would appear to be addition of Javadoc validation and quick fixes.
For those losers that, you know, actually document their code.
Posted by Bill Stilwell at November 21, 2003 03:33 PMOne interesting thing I noticed in the M5 release notes is that you now have the option to disable the Java Builder in Eclipse. According to previous Eclipse docs the internal Java builder could not be disabled because when it ran it indexed the source code - allowing features like refactoring in the IDE. This meant that if you wanted to use Ant to build the project the internal Java builder HAD to run first... basically forcing you to compile your code twice if you were doing a clean build. I find it a little suspicious that this change was quietly slipped into the M5 build… I wonder if anything has really changed behind the scenes. My guess is that the internal builder is still being used to index the source code – making the disabling of the Java Builder a bit misleading.
Posted by: Jeff at November 21, 2003 07:43 PM