Eclipse 3.2 (June 30, 2006) (Callisto - named after one of the Jupiter's Galilean moons): started annual simultaneous release of all the related Eclipse projects.

Eclipse 1.0 (November 7, 2001): based on an earlier Java IDE called VisualAge from IBM.

Eclipse is cross-platform and runs under Windows, Linux and macOS. It also supports C/C++, PHP, Python, Perl, and other web project developments via extensible plug-ins. However, it uses its own Java graphics library known as SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), instead of Java's Swing/AWT.Įclipse is popular for Java application development (Java SE and Java EE) and Android apps. Eclipse is a desktop app written mostly in Java. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle.Eclipse is a free and open-source Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), originated from IBM inspired by VisualAge (in 2001), and now maintained by Eclipse Foundation. UPDATE: whew, looks like there's hope after all:Īpple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard® and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion.

If you're running a Mac prior to the deprecated version, see the link and it talks about the location on your hard drive.

The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.

Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X. I was going to say it was already present on my Mac (I've been running Eclipse for a while Java came pre-installed), but I'm still running OSX 10.5 and it looks like Apple has given Java the boot: :-(Īs of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated.

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