Zdot Podcast: Eclipse 3.1 Release

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“A triumph my dear, another triumph.” -A Christmas Carol

Show Notes

Eclipse 3.1 has some excellent new features. Chief among them for me is the JDK 1.5 support. They’ve got everything from enums to annotations supported, and done very well. Also of particular note is the first class support to the Rich Client Platform (RCP). Watch for the Web Tools Platform to finalize very soon as well.

More Eclipse Upgrading Info

It looks like Matt Raible was writing about making it easy to upgrade your Eclipse installation a couple of days before I was. His post has about the same info as mine, but many more comments. Check it out and see what other people are saying on the subject.

[Eclipse] Superclass does not implement the ‘junit.framework.Test’ interface

I ran into this really strange error the other day while using Eclipse. I had been creating some JUnit tests, and everything was going just fine. Then I tried to create another one, and I saw the dialog below with the error message, Superclass does not implement the ‘junit.framework.Test’ interface.

Eclipse 'Create JUnit Test Case' error screenshot

The JUnit JAR file was in my classpath, so I was befuddled for a minute or two. After searching around I discovered that I had accidentally deleted the JRE System Library from my project Java Build Path. After I restored that, everything worked fine.