Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE.

While Eclipse is written in Java, since its beginning in 2001, Eclipse has gone far beyond Java. Today, developers use Eclipse for almost every language from Ada to Scheme Lisp.

To use Java 21, or build applications on an older version of the Eclipse IDE, you must install your preferred version of Java separately and register it as a Java runtime in Eclipse’s preferences ...

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