As you might have heard version 3.3 of the Eclipse platform has been released under the codename of Europa (Eclipse 3.3 Europa) and is now the preferred version of Eclipse for new developers. With the new Eclipse release I’m wondering where that leaves us developing for Notes 8 and Sametime 7.5. Will development for the IBM Lotus Expeditor platform be supported with Eclipse 3.3 or will we need to stay to Eclipse 3.2 to be supported?
I’m just curious. It isn’t too much of a problem for me right now as I’m already running both Eclipse 3.1 and Eclipse 3.2 on different projects so adding a third to the mix shouldn’t be too much of a hazzle. I’m just curious as I think it will set a precedence as to how IBM Lotus plans to keep up with the ongoing development and evolution of the Eclipse platform.
Another reason why it isn’t too much of an issue for me is that I’m on Windows XP. One of the noteworthy features of Eclipse 3.3 is the support for Mac OSX on Intel. This is interesting since we as Notes/Domino developers are extending our reach into the Mac market and hence this kind of support is required.
You can use it for plugin development, but unfortunately you cannot leverage new features (complex tooltips, etc.) because Lotus Expeditor is still on 3.2.x
I believe I heard that 3.3 support would be added this fall … hence why there is no Max Notes 8 client for the 8.0.0 release. I expect we will see 3.3 support by Lotusphere
I want the Firefox everywhere support from 3.3 so I can use gecko instead of IE for rendering markup. It does depend on a local xulrunner install so I don’t know if it will be included/supported (possible security issues too).
Designer/Eclipse does need to be on 3.3 when it rolls out since many of us will be using 3.3 for real projects by then.
Can you say 8.0.1?
I can say that. I’ll scream it from the rooftops if it will help 😉