Hi everyone. Just thought I’d blog this quickly. I wanted to check which version of Eclipse is being used for my Notes 8.5.3 FP1 Client and it was a touch tricker than expected. Thanks to Nathan T Freeman, I now know where to find this:
1. Open your Notes Client and click on “HelpAbout”.
2. Click on the “Plug-in Details” button.
3. Sort the “Plug-in Name” Column and search for “Eclipse UI”. You will see the version in the Version Column. In my case it’s version 3.4.2……
This is baseline for determining the overall version of Eclipse that’s used for Lotus Notes.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
This also determines which third party eclipse plugins you can install. Maybe one day we’ll get an eclipse version with a decent JavaScript editor.
You can not say, that Notes 8.5.3 FP1 is based on the eclipse RCP 3.4.2 because many important components like SWT have been updated to newer versions in 8.5.x. So when you create plugins for the Notes Client you should point your eclipse IDE to the Notes client as a target platform.
@Ralf… that goes for OSGI plugins as well