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Download Eclipse SDK 4.7

Eclipse SDK 4.7

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system. Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Eclipse SDK 4.7.


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What's new in this version:

NEW FEATURES IN THE PLATFORM AND EQUINOX:
EDITORS:
- An easily-extensible Generic Text Editor added
- Generic editor can now read patch and diff files
- Images are opened in the Eclipse IDE
- Editor selection dialog: Use for all
- Show Annotation renamed to Show Revision Information
- Configure left and right sides in Compare editors
- Ctrl+E command improvements
- Content Assist for Feature Name in Model Editor
- Model Editor improvements

DEBUG:
- "Launch Group" launch configuration type
- "Terminate and Relaunch" from Run menu, context menu and tool bar
- Breakpoints view: Sort By > Creation Time
- Breakpoints in Overview Ruler

VIEWS, DIALOGS AND TOOLBAR:
- Improved string matching in Quick Access
- Wildcards in Quick Access
- Quick Access search text in Help
- Filter previous choices in Quick Access
- Command icons shown in Quick Access
- Show/hide Status Bar
- GTK tree collapse/expand key bindings
- Simplified filters dialog for Problems, Bookmarks, and Tasks views
- Copy Details submenu for Problems and Tasks views
- Filter dialog for Problems, Bookmarks, and Tasks views easier to reach
- "Copy Build Id Information" in About dialog
- 'Filters and Customization...' in Project Explorer
- "Recently used filters" feature in Project Explorer
- "Other Projects" working set in Project Explorer
- Perspective descriptions in Open Perspective dialog
- Maximize and Minimize via Window > Appearance menu
- 'Switch Workspace' and 'Restart' menu items
- Improved exit and restart dialogs
- Installation Details menu entry removed
- DnD source image for List widget (GTK only)

PREFERENCES:
- Window title configuration
- Option to copy your preferences during workspace switch
- Option to disable Problems view decoration on startup
- "Always run in background" enabled by default

THEMES AND STYLING:
- New default styling for form-based user interfaces
- Support for extending existing CSS preference nodes
- Default styling for table and tree headers
- Colors in interactive popups
- Fixed Progress view colors for the dark theme
- Improved default styling for the toolbar
- Reduced TabItems padding under GTK+
- Reduced window margins
- GTK theme system property
- More high resolution images
- GENERAL UPDATES:
- Eclipse as Apple disk image
- Ant 1.10.1
- Java 9 previews

NEW FEATURES FOR JAVA DEVELOPERS:
JAVA EDITOR:
- Open Implementation of selected Type
- Automatically insert Braces at correct position
- Escape text when pasting into a string literal
- Quick Fix to move type annotations
- Defaults for annotation type elements in Javadoc
- Set colors for Javadoc

JAVA VIEWS AND DIALOGS:
- Skip button in Organize Imports dialog
- Hide inherited members from java.lang.Object
- Hide deprecated fields and methods
- Group by Project in Search view
- Type name with extension in New Java Type creation wizards
- HiDPI JDT icons

JAVA COMPILER:
- New Java index
- Pass compiler options to annotation processors
- Warnings for unlikely argument types

JAVA FORMATTER:
- New way to count comment width

DEBUG:
- Method result after step operations
- Triggers for breakpoints
- Conditional watchpoint
- Toggle Tracepoint
- Show Logical Structure enabled by default
- Remote Java Application "Socket Listen" type supports multiple incoming connections
- New option to disable Hot Code Replace

JUNIT:
- Show JUnit failure trace in Console view

NEW APIs IN THE PLATFORM AND EQUINOX:
PLATFORM CHANGES:
- Extension points added for Generic Text Editor
- An extension point to associate existing editors and content-types
- CompositeImageDescriptor HiDPI-ready
- Update in API for decorating images
- New API for controlling build order
- Asynchronous content-assistant
- Stable sorting in viewers based on ViewerComparator
- Reduced performance impact of very frequent progress reporting from background jobs
- Application model allows toolbar definitions for parts and perspectives
- Separation of DI extension annotations and supplier
- @Service annotation available in DI extensions
- Dependency injection for Eclipse 3.x views available
- Declarative services implementation replaceable
- Imperative Expressions
- Screenshot from JUnit
- Debugging test timeouts

EQUINOX CHANGES:
- New Declarative Services Implementation supporting OSGi R6
- Several plug-ins define Provided Capabilities metadata
- Non-modal Install dialog
- Progress reporting in the installation dialog
- Tracing honors -consoleLog
- Source-incompatible change in org.eclipse.equinox.common requires Java 8 BREE for some dependant plug-ins

SWT CHANGES:
- SWT requires 1.8 Java runtime
- Lambda as SelectionListener
- Lambda as KeyListener
- New API Image#getImageData(int zoom)
- New APIs for Table header colors
- New APIs for Tree header colors
- Table and Tree header styling via CSS
- Apply GTK+ CSS at runtime
- Tweak the GTK+ theme
- Button widget background and foreground color can be styled on Windows
- SWT spies separated from Tools plug-in
- Image#getImageDataAtCurrentZoom() and Image#getBoundsInPixels() are deprecated
- AccessibleTableListener#getCaption(..) deprecated
- AccessibleTableListener#getSummary(..) deprecated
- Composite#changed(Control[]) deprecated

NEW FEATURES FOR PLUG-IN DEVELOPERS:
DIALOGS, EDITORS AND VIEWS:
- New Layout Spy Tool
- Support for Nested categories
- Manage versions for included features
- Option added for workspace plug-ins overriding target plug-ins
- 'Show In Console' added to context menu of Error Log view
- Reload Target Editor
- Target definition files can be edited with the Generic Editor
- p2.inf files open in Properties Editor
- Search finds plug-in references in features
- Quick Fix to add bundle or package adds import statement
- Validate launch configuration activated by default
- 'Restore to defaults' buttons added to Tracing tab

OSGI DECLARATIVE SERVICES:
- Support for Declarative Services Annotations v1.3

WIZARDS:
- Plug-in project template added for Generic Text Editor
- More descriptive plug-in template names
- Plug-in selection filter in Feature project wizard
- Filter in plug-in and feature export wizards

API TOOLS:
- Change in Execution Environment creates a version problem
- Default method addition reported as a breaking change
- Field addition to Class reported as a breaking change
- Option for field addition to an annotation
- Types marked with @noimplement and @noextend processed by API leak analysis
- Quick Fix to configure problem severity
- Reorganized Version Management preferences tab

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