Difference between "Eclipse Indigo" and "Eclipse Juno"

Question

Currently I'm using Eclipse Indigo (v3.7) for Selenium WebDriver automation tests with Java. There is also Eclipse Juno (v3.8 - 4.2) available that I have never used.

What's the difference between Eclipse Indigo and Eclipse Juno?

Answer 1

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. So far, each Simultaneous Release has occurred on the fourth Wednesday of June.

Eclipse Indigo corresponds to platform version 3.7, while Eclipse Juno - to platform version 4.2. Juno has a lot of improvements on the UI, but this results in a bit slower performance that the previous versions. Personally, I would prefer using Indigo rather than using Juno.

Answer 2

Eclipse Juno has entirely a GUI with a lot of visual improvements. Although by design it is a lot more functional, it has been proved that Juno is quite slow, and I won't recommend using it at present.

From a Selenium point of view I don't think there would be a reason to switch to the newer version of Eclipse.

Answer 3

In my experience Juno was a LOT slower than Indigo, particularly when moving from one editor window to another. In fact I upgraded to Juno then downgraded again a week or so later as I found Juno unbearably slow, even on a quad core i7 PC.

The current release of Eclipse (at the time that I write this) is 'Kepler'. I'm now using Kepler for my mobile web app and Android development.

So, in summary, skip Juno and go straight to Kepler - here's the link; http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Hope this helps.