The Scala IDE for Eclipse beta 2 available now!

We are happy to announce that, less than three weeks after the first beta release, we take a second step towards a 2.0 release of the Scala IDE for Eclipse. This release fixes a number of issues. Read below for more.

• Fixes various crashes in the structure builder, leading to un-editable files in Eclipse
• Correctly saves preferences for the diagnostics window
• Correctly show bean getters/setters in mixed Java/Scala projects
• Performance improvements in structured selection
• New formatter preference window, with preview
• Format selection only
• Better memory usage when closing projects
• Allow compiler plugins in the presentation compiler
• other bug fixes

There are 15 tickets fixed since the first beta. The complete list is available here [1]. 

You can install the new release by pointing Eclipse to the following update site: 

http://download.scala-ide.org/releases/wip_experiment-2.0.0-beta2 [2]

As the previous release, this one is built against the 2.9.0 branch of the Scala compiler and requires at least Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)