Eclipse Europa is apparently coming on June 29th, but I do not sense any kind of level of excitement around this release for the Java community. Do you?

Eclipse Europa is the annual release of Eclipse projects. Like last year’s Callisto release, the Europa release is a coordinate release of different Eclipse project teams. This year, the annual release includes 21 projects. By releasing these projects at the same time, the goal is to eliminate uncertainty about version compatibility and make it easier to incorporate multiple projects into your environment.

While Europa is about the simultaneous release of twenty one projects, it is not a unification of the projects – each project remains a separate open source project operating with its own project leadership, its own committers, and its own project plan.

Here is the list of projects.

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