Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Eclipse Platform for the 4.30 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:
Plug-in developers will also be interested in the corresponding What's new document in the plug-in developer's guide.
We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks.
Security |
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p2 Director Application Security |
To provide similar security controls as available in the IDE,
the following command-line arguments are now supported the p2 director application:
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General Updates |
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Support for Jakarta Annotations by Eclipse E4 |
The Eclipse E4 Platform Dependency Injector now supports annotations from the jakarta.inject and jakarta.annotation package.
Plug-in developers are encouraged to migrate their E4 application model element classes to use for example
The support for annotations from the
The Eclipse SDK itself already has been migrated off these annotations from the
Counterintuitively the |
New Http Client Backend for P2 |
The ECF Backend used by P2 has switched to use the httpjava-client to lower the dependency chain and efforts to maintain certain third party libraries. For now Eclipse will ship both, the new and the old backend while the newer one takes precedence. If you see any issues please proceed as follows:
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