Eclipse Oxygen.3 IDE Improvements: Java, Gradle and PHP [VIDEO]

We’re only a few months away from Eclipse Photon (it should arrive on June 27, 2018!) but we’re still super excited about Eclipse Oxygen and everything this IDE has to offer developers.

In what is now a regular series, Holger Voormann has created another video about the Eclipse Oxygen IDE Improvements. In the first installment, Voormann went over the Oxygen.1a IDE Improvements for Java 9, JUnit 5, General, Gradle, and PHP. Last time, he explained some of the IDE improvements for Oxygen.2, including the changes to the Java IDE, Git and C/C++.

Now, that Eclipse Oxygen.3 is out, he’s back with another video in this helpful series!

Java IDE

• Pasting of “module-info.java” snippets into source folder (bug 522022)
• JUnit tests now also work in a module project (bug 525948)
• Minor improvements, e. g. deprecate warning messages with “since” and “forRemoval” (bug 526335)
• Performance improvements, e. g. when compiling code that contains a lot of generic types  (bug 521438)
• Java 10 support not built-in, but available via Eclipse Marketplace (also found here)

Gradle (see the project release here)

• Support of Java 9 Support of Java 9
• Gradle editor with basic syntax highlighting
• Automatic project synchronization (disabled by default)

PHP (check out the bugfixes here)

• PHP 7.2 and PHPUnit 7 support
• Configurable problem severities on project and workspace level
• Formatter improvements, e. g. exclude unknown tags in comments from being formatted
• Content assist appears much quicker, especially in large files.