Difference between Eclipse Europa Helios Galileo

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What is the difference between versions of Eclipse  Europa  Helios  Galileo   Which is the best for desktop application

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To see a list of the Eclipse release name and it's corresponding version number go to this website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29#Release

Release Date Platform version
Juno ?? June 2012 4.2?
Indigo 22 June 2011 3.7
Helios 23 June 2010 3.6
Galileo 24 June 2009 3.5
Ganymede 25 June 2008 3.4
Europa 29 June 2007 3.3
Callisto 30 June 2006 3.2
Eclipse 3.1 28 June 2005 3.1
Eclipse 3.0 21 June 2004 3.0

I too dislike the way that the Eclipse foundation DOES NOT use the version number for their downloads or on the Help -> About Eclipse dialog. They do display the version on the download webpage, but the actual file name is something like:

eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-java-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz

But over time, you forget what release name goes with what version number. I would much prefer a file naming convention like:

eclipse-3.7.1-java-indigo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-3.6-java-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz

This way you get BOTH from the file name and it is sortable in a directory listing. Fortunately, they mostly choose names are alphabetically after the previous one (except for 3.4-Ganymede vs the newer 3.5-Galileo).

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They are successive  improved versions of the same product  Anyone noticed how the names of the last three and the next release are in alphabetical order  Galileo  Helios  Indigo  Juno   This is probably how they will go in the future  in the same way that Ubuntu release codenames increase alphabetically  note Indigo is not a moon of Jupiter

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The Eclipse releases are named after the moons of Jupiter  and each denotes a successive release   Helios is the current release you can download eclipse as your programming needs http   www eclipse org downloads

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Each version has some improvements in certain technologies  For users the biggest difference is whether or not to execute certain plugins  because some were made only for a particular version of Eclipse

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In Galileo and Helios Provisioning Platform were introduced  and non-update-site plugins now should be placed in  dropins  subfolder   eclipse dropins plugin name features    eclipse dropins plugin name plugins   instead of Eclipse s folder   eclipse features  and  eclipse plugins     Also for programming needs the best Eclipse is the latest Eclipse  It has too many bugs for now  and all the Eclipse team is now doing is fixing the bugs  There are very few interface enhancements since Europa  IMHO

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The Eclipse  software  page on Wikipedia summarizes it pretty well      Releases      Since 2006  the Eclipse Foundation has coordinated an annual Simultaneous Release  Each release includes the Eclipse Platform as well as a number of other Eclipse projects  Until the Galileo release  releases were named after the moons of the solar system       So far  each Simultaneous Release has occurred at the end of June    Release         Main Release   Platform version      Projects Photon          27 June 2018     4 8 Oxygen          28 June 2017     4 7                  Neon            22 June 2016     4 6                  Mars            24 June 2015     4 5                 Mars Projects Luna            25 June 2014     4 4                 Luna Projects Kepler          26 June 2013     4 3                 Kepler Projects Juno            27 June 2012     4 2                 Juno Projects Indigo          22 June 2011     3 7                 Indigo projects Helios          23 June 2010     3 6                 Helios projects Galileo         24 June 2009     3 5                 Galileo projects Ganymede        25 June 2008     3 4                 Ganymede projects Europa          29 June 2007     3 3                 Europa projects Callisto        30 June 2006     3 2                 Callisto projects Eclipse 3 1     28 June 2005     3 1   Eclipse 3 0     28 June 2004     3 0      To summarize  Helios  Galileo  Ganymede  etc are just code names for versions of the Eclipse platform  personally  I d prefer Eclipse to use traditional version numbers instead of code names  it would make things clearer and easier   My suggestion would be to use the latest version  i e  Eclipse Oxygen  4 7   in the original version of this answer  it said  Helios  3 6 1      On top of the  platform   Eclipse then distributes various Packages  i e  the  platform  with a default set of plugins to achieve specialized tasks   such as Eclipse IDE for Java Developers  Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers  Eclipse IDE for C C   Developers  etc  see this link for a comparison of their content    To develop Java Desktop applications  the Helios release of Eclipse IDE for Java Developers should suffice  you can always install  additional plugins  if required

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Those are just version designations  just like windows xp  vista or windows 7  which they are using to name their major releases  instead of using version numbers  so you ll want to use the newest eclipse version available  which is helios  or 3 6 which is the corresponding version number

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