Eclipse’s more powerful yearly release is just around the corner. Called Galileo, this release brings many features which will ease our life while developing Java applications. Java IDE is always there, in addition to this IDE there are tools for JEE, JSF and Mylyn. Scheduled to get released on 24th of June 2009, RC2 version is available for testing. Complete feature list is available here . Here is abstract of features.

• Improved tabbing – when a file is opened in a tab, and that file itself requires multiple tabs. If you have used RAD, then the way web.xml is handled by its different sections in one tab and xml source in other. Eclipse now improves it.
• No need to manually write toString() method- the code generation/factory concept is slowly taken ahead in this version. Earlier we had getter and setter method generation, and also skeletons of JUnit test cases are getting generated. Now the most common method in Java development is getting generated. It is worth seeing if it is plain string generation using the ‘+’ operator which becomes non performing when you have too many parameters, or using something like StringBuffer.  But definitely the code factory is on cards, and hoping to see more.
• Improved Type/Class search. Now we will need to type only ABC for AbstractBaseClass to search it. Up to you, what you feel comfortable- writing first few letter e.g. Abstra or just recalling the camel case letters.

And the list continues, you can find these features discussed in this blog.

Download and enjoy trying these things on Galileo. Mind you this is one of the huge files eclipse has offered to download.

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