The Apple Developer Connection looks at the Eclipse developer’s platform.
Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination
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If you want to test eclipse on your mac, be sure to download the latest release candidate (3.0 RC2 the last time I checked). Since RC1 or RC2 the buttons on MacOSX are smaller than in previous mac versions (proably a change in SWT), which makes it much more usable, especially on “small” screens, such as 1024×768.
Also, the new advanced syntax highlighting is really nice (Preferences -> Java Editor -> Advanced Highlighting or so…).
I guess Apple will now push Eclipse as the Java IDE for MacOSX instead of implementing (useful) Java-integration for XCode, which would’t be a bad desicion, as Eclipse is a really nice tool and actually makes developing with Java “not so bad”
it’s (GUI) performance could be better on OSX.
if you want a quality professional java IDE, try out IDEA by JetBrains. much higher quality, and worth every penny if your time is worth money.
I only wished it would let my chose the “Courier New” font for editing, I am stuck with “Courier”. Got to be a bug in SWT I suppose.
I would really like a port of CDT ( C/C++ tools ) for Eclipse on the Mac. You can install the linux version and it works about 95%..