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Attempting to enumerate all of new features and APIs in Eclipse 3.0 would
be futile.  The past year or so of development has focused on more than 50 major
features of the Eclipse 3.0 plan, not to mention addressing more than 5,000
bugs and feature requests, according to a quick query of the Eclipse Bugzilla.
The best place to get an overview of major new changes in Eclipse 3.0
is to read through all the ''New and Noteworthy'' documents
included with each milestone build.




To give you a quick summary, the development of Eclipse 3.0 has centered
on the following major themes:


* ''User experience''. This theme deals with all aspects of the end user
experience, especially for new users, the so-called
out-of-box experience. This theme also focuses on UI scalability,
affordances, improved file-encoding support, key bindings,
editor management, text editor presentation, workspace selection,
and the introduction of an SWT browser widget.</li>




* ''Responsive UI''.  This involves identifying and reducing the number of places where
users are forced to wait when using Eclipse.  Major work on this theme included
the introduction of an Eclipse concurrency architecture and tackling the performance
gap in Eclipse between Windows and other platforms, such as Linux GTK, QNX, and Mac.
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* ''Rich client platform''. The Eclipse APIs have been
reorganized to better support development
of applications outside the development tools domain. Work on this theme also
included a new infrastructure for storing user settings and support for dynamic
installation and removal of plug-ins.</li>




* ''Extended Java family''. This theme deals only with the Java development tools
subproject.  Work in this area focused on opening up the JDT APIs to better support
Java-like source files, such as Java Server Pages (JSPs) and 
SQLj.  This included opening up the
refactoring and Java search infrastructure to facilitate participation by third-party
plug-ins.</li>







== See Also: ==


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The Eclipse 3.0 plan (http://eclipse.org/development/plan)

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