Man, I love Eclipse more and more every day. I’ve been using it for almost a year and it just keeps getting better. The fabulous Eclipse team released Eclipse 2.1 M5 a couple of hours ago and I fetched it shortly thereafter. Wanna know how the install went?

1. I shut down the instance I had running
2. Squirreled away trusty M4 version for safe-keeping
3. Unzipped the M5 distro
4. Copied my workspace folder from M4 to M5
5. Copied my plugins over from M4
   • the Jalopy formatter
   • XMLBuddy
   • Solar Eclipse for JSP editing
   • JadClipse for decompiling
6. Fired up the new version

Why can’t all installs be that easy?

If you are an Eclipse user, think about getting this version. There are quite a few tasty new features lurking about in there.