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EasyEclipse

Back in November of 2004 I posted a rant about how difficult it was to download and install the Eclipse IDE from the official site. I’m delighted to hear that my rant was partially responsible for the creation of the EasyEclipse project, which not only provides easily installable packages for setting up a Java development environment but also covers LAMP development as well.

Meanwhile, eclipse.org has made big improvements too. A visit to www.eclipse.org/downloads gives me a nice big “Download now: Eclipse SDK 3.1.2, Mac OS X (98 MB)” link, with an alternative link to the torrents.

I’m living in TextMate at the moment and loving every minute of it, but I’ll certainly be trying out one of the EasyEclipse distributions next time I need to work with Java.

Posted 3rd June 2006 at 11:34 am

This is EasyEclipse by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd June 2006.

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6 comments

  1. Wow, I might actually try out Eclipse now. I don't typically do any Java work, so I had never taken the time to figure out the horribly organized Eclipse site. That was quite the barrier for me. Sure, it was mostly laziness, but good tools like this should be easy to get and install. Thanks for the update, Simon!

    Scott Johnson - 3rd June 2006 21:17 - #

  2. I use Eclipse every day for my developments...not with Java language or platform, but with PHP (yes, i know, shame on me, i would prefer Python/Django or Ruby/Rails, hope it comes soon). And i love it. The only thing i hate (really), is the management of symbolic links. Eclipse follow each one, and building workspace take so much time that i want to kill it.

    zyegfryed - 5th June 2006 21:26 - #

  3. Yes I agree with you, eclipse got much better over the time. I think the developers of this project are making a big effort to be more user-friendly with each new release.

    Maria loves pictures - 7th June 2006 13:31 - #

  4. Re: Ruby / Rails development with Eclipse, check out RadRails (http://www.radrails.org/). Haven't had the chance to fully test it, but it looks like it could be promising.

    lukus - 8th June 2006 13:58 - #

  5. I just used EasyEclipse and it's great! I was having trouble with getting Eclipse to work write on my Intel mac, and this seems to have fixed it. Thanks for any part you had in this!

    Andrew - 20th June 2006 17:36 - #

  6. I am glad to see that someone else felt the same way i did I ranted about it to but my words were never heard I am glad that someones words wre heard, I trie dto install the easy version but had problems with it thee first time but after a quick reboot of the machine and another try, it worked just fine! Do yo uplan on ranting anytime soon on Windows, woudl love to see someting done ot make it better.

    kim - 24th June 2006 03:41 - #

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