What is the difference between eclipse (europa, helios, galileo). Which is the best for desktop application.
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Those are just version designations (just like windows xp, vista or windows 7) which they are using to name their major releases, instead of using version numbers. so you'll want to use the newest eclipse version available, which is helios (or 3.6 which is the corresponding version number).
x3ro
2010-10-24 16:03:56
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The Eclipse releases are named after the moons of Jupiter, and each denotes a successive release.
Helios is the current release you can download eclipse as your programming needs http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Sudantha
2010-10-24 16:04:48
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In Galileo and Helios Provisioning Platform were introduced, and non-update-site plugins now should be placed in "dropins" subfolder ("eclipse/dropins/plugin_name/features", "eclipse/dropins/plugin_name/plugins") instead of Eclipse's folder ("eclipse/features" and "eclipse/plugins").
Also for programming needs the best Eclipse is the latest Eclipse. It has too many bugs for now, and all the Eclipse team is now doing is fixing the bugs. There are very few interface enhancements since Europa. IMHO.
Lavir the Whiolet
2010-10-24 16:08:32
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The Eclipse (software) page on Wikipedia summarizes it pretty well:
Releases
Since 2006, the Eclipse Foundation has coordinated an annual Simultaneous Release. Each release includes the Eclipse Platform as well as a number of other Eclipse projects. Until the Galileo release, releases were named after the moons of the solar system.
So far, each Simultaneous Release has occurred at the end of June.
Release Date Platform version Projects Indigo June 2011 3.7 Indigo projects Helios 23 June 2010 3.6 Helios projects Galileo 24 June 2009 3.5 Galileo projects Ganymede 25 June 2008 3.4 Ganymede projects Europa 29 June 2007 3.3 Europa projects Callisto 30 June 2006 3.2 Callisto projects Eclipse 3.1 28 June 2005 3.1 Eclipse 3.0 28 June 2004 3.0
To summarize, Helios, Galileo, Ganymede, etc are just code names for versions of the Eclipse platform (personally, I'd prefer Eclipse to use traditional version numbers instead of code names, it would make things clearer and easier). My suggestion would be to use the latest version, i.e. Eclipse Helios (3.6.1).
On top of the "platform", Eclipse then distributes various Packages (i.e. the "platform" with a default set of plugins to achieve specialized tasks), such as Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, etc (see this link for a comparison of their content).
To develop Java Desktop applications, the Helios release of Eclipse IDE for Java Developers should suffice (you can always install "additional plugins" if required).
Pascal Thivent
2010-10-24 16:38:36
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Each version has some improvements in certain technologies. For users the biggest difference is whether or not to execute certain plugins, because some were made only for a particular version of Eclipse.
adelarsq
2010-10-24 16:59:43