Luna (4.

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Noopur Gupta
Eclipse JDT/UI Committer
IBM Software Labs, Bangalore
noopur_gupta@in.ibm.com
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A new look!
New Eclipse logo
New Splash screen
Re-designed www.eclipse.org website
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Workbench improvements
Dark theme: Preferences -> General -> Appearance and choose Dark
New icon set (png icons)
Less whitespace usage
Line numbers are now shown by default
Perspective re-ordering
Toolbar can be hidden: Window > Hide Toolbar
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Quick Access as a popup
Quick Access field in the toolbar can be hidden.
From the context menu in the toolbar, select Hide.
Once hidden, pressing Ctrl+3 will instead show a popup dialog.
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Minimized views 2 display modes
Use Overlays:
Showing a minimized view opens it in a
'fly out', overlaying part of the main
window.
Show in the Original Location:
Showing a minimized view opens it in
its original location, without overlaying
any part of the main window.
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Split the editor
Do you ever find yourself working in a large file and need to view or edit
multiple sections at once?
Ctrl+_ splits the editor one above the other
Ctrl+{ splits the editor side by side
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Show in System Explorer
If you select a resource and right click, there is now a Show In > System
Explorer context menu entry that will open the folder containing that
resource in your system's file explorer.
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Java 8 Support
Eclipse compiler for Java
Quick fix to change project compliance and JRE to 1.8
Migrate anonymous class creations to lambda expressions and back
Change lambda expression body block to expression and back
Show the method implemented by the functional interface instances on hover
Navigate to the functional method declaration
Option to control lambda code formatting
Option to control generation of method parameter attributes in class files
Null type annotations
Java 8 debug support

Eclipse newsletter - Eclipse Luna: Ready for Java 8
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Eclipse Luna Whats New
Help > Welcome > Whats New
https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.4/eclipse_news_4.4.php
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Contributing to Eclipse
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Contributing to Eclipse
(https://www.eclipse.org/contribute)
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Forums
http://www.eclipse.org/forums
Bugzilla
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs
Contributing Patches
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/How_to_Contribute
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