Hurray – Eclipse Cocoa released recently – the big major Eclipse release.
There are quite a few under the hood changes happened on Eclipse Cocoa project.
Major changes into Eclipse Cocoa Project:
- Brand new hierarchical view of nested projects
- Improved Maven archetypes integration and enhanced auto-completion in the pom editor
- Ability to customize perspectives and speed improvements for text search
- Best new tools for building and maintaining Docker containers
- New ability to record and share user preference settings across individual workspaces
- Improved Maven support, including support for Maven 3.3.3
- Nice and Automated way for error reporting
How to update Workspace from Eclipse Cocoa (Previous release) to Cocoa?
Step-1
Eclipse latest IDE for Java EE Developers: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
I’m using Macbook Pro so my downloaded package: eclipse-jee-2018-12-R-macosx-cocoa-x86_64
Step-2
Extract above .tar.gz file and you will see just Eclipse.app file.
Step-3
During startup just provide your previous Eclipse’s workspace and click ok and you should be all good.
So far all my ~20 projects imported successfully to Eclipse Cocoa without any issue. Compilation worked just fine.
Only thing which I had to do is to just install Apache Tomcat again on Eclipse Cocoa. If you face any issue while installing Tomcat then follow the tutorial.
Nice review, but i’m curious.
If you used your old workspace your tomcat server adapter should still be there when using Mars ?
Agree. I was expecting the same but somehow for me on Mac OS X that didn’t work. So I’ve to add Server under under “server panel”. Keep visiting and Happy coding.