But Sun eventually got embarrassed with the fact they took 8 attempts to get something right, and changed their strategy to have underscores on the end. Whilst the major numbers outlined about (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.) are a good idea of what version you are using, there's a minor one. Their versioning numbers are almost laughable too.
#Eclipse for mac java 1.4.2 download mac os x#
(Software Update on Mac OS X now does exactly that when it finds an update, you can download a Delta update, which is just the fixed files.) Would you believe that in order to download new recommended updates from Sun for Solaris, you have to download the entire set of fixes as a ZIP or a CD image, even if you've already got one? And then, when it installs the patches, it runs through every patchset *again*, this time complaining with error code 8 (already installed)? What's worse, the update mechanism seems to download the entire thing again, instead of being intelligent and downloading just the changes. (Are they co-owned by Cisco?) But if you're on a slow dial-up connection, or are using metered bandwidth (Wake up America! Metered bandwith exists outside your country) then downloading a big file isn't that practical. What's worse is that the update mechanism is diabolical like other Sun products, they view the 'network as the computer' and so don't mind paying large amounts of money to use it. That's a big download between 40 and 50 Mb depending on your platform. You know that you're running a version of Java, built into the operating system, but for other less fortunate operating systems, you've got to get Java in the first place. Now, if you're one of the lucky ones reading this who are using Mac OS X, good on you. But even more than that, the problems with Java GUIs are more than just the UI toolkit you've got to have a VM installed.
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I've gone on about the difference between SWT and AWT before, so I won't repeat any of it here. Note to anyone inventing the Next Big Language: don't wed yourself down to components and the base language let them evolve independently. For example, in the early days, in order to run server-side Java on AS/400s and other green-screen systems (mainframes), IBM had to invent a VNC-type solution to be able to pretend to run AWT components, just so they could pass the test kit. As such, wedding the UI to the core Java causes problems in updating the UI. The difference is that an Eclipse major milestone release is (a) probably a significantly larger codebase, and (b) about 50% shorter release cycle than the equivalent Java base is updated. Now compare this with Java releases: Date * For Eclipse 1.0 and 2.0, SWT was not a separately downloadable component SWT has been evolving as part of the Eclipse platform for some time now, and has gone through several version changes.
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The reason that Swing has fallen out of favour is that it doesn't evolve fast enough.
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And then you find out that they are all based on the SWT, and not Swing.
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There's a lot of Java-based applications out there (and more of them are starting to be based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform) and some of them look really nice for example, the Azureus BitTorrent client. Josh recently asked Why don't you ship Swing apps?.