I like to stay up-to-date with the latest Eclipse releases, often times using release candidates weeks before an actual release. The Eclipse release candidates, generally speaking, are top-notch and free of problems. So I was very surprised to discover a major problem with the 3.6 release almost immediately.

the problem

The problem was this: plugins did not appear to work. I dutifully installed my standard plugin set using the Update Manager but discovered no evidence of the effort after a restart. Subclipse? Missing. Mousefeed? FindBugs? nWire? Missing! Continue reading »