The difference between Eclipse Indigo and Eclipse Juno

Question

I am currently using Eclipse Indigo (v3.7) for Selenium WebDriver Automation Tests with Java. There is also an Eclipse Juno (v3.8 - 4.2) that I have never used.

What is the difference between Eclipse Indigo and Eclipse Juno?

Answer 1

Since 2006, the Eclipse Foundation has coordinated the annual synchronous release. Each release includes the Eclipse platform, as well as several other Eclipse projects. So far, each synchronous release has taken place on the fourth Wednesday of June.

Eclipse Indigo is platform version 3.7, and Eclipse Juno is platform version 4.2. Juno has many improvements in the user interface, but this leads to lower performance than previous versions. Personally, I would rather use Indigo rather than use Juno.

Answer 2

Eclipse Juno has a fully graphical interface with many visual enhancements. Although the design is much more functional, it has been proven that the Juno is quite slow, and I will not recommend using it at this time.

From Selenium’s point of view, I don’t think there is a reason to switch to a newer version of Eclipse.

Answer 3

In my experience, Juno was much slower than Indigo, especially when moving from one editor window to another. Actually, I upgraded to Juno, and then dropped again after a week or so, since I found Juno unbearably slow even on an i7 quad-core processor.

The current version of Eclipse (at the time I'm writing this) is Kepler. Now I use Kepler for my mobile web application and Android development.

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

Hope this helps.