[Javaru]

1) A fellow mentor, that is a very reliable source of information, told me the reason for moving to eclipse was so they had a single IDE for both Java and C/C++ developers. I've always used IntelliJ IDEA community (the free edition) with my students. I did that because with 11 years experience using it, I know IntelliJ IDEA very well. So I do not want to have to be learning an IDE myself as I try and teach my students. In the past the plug-in for NetBeans simply downloaded an SDK, provided a few new class templates, and gave you a run configuration to run the included Ant build. So I've always been able to make the equivalent templates and run configurations in IDEA. I've been planning to write a Plug-In for IDEA that would provide all that so I would not have to have the students copy some of the stuff over to their systems. When I heard about the change for 2015, I decided to wait so I could write the plug-in around the new changes. I suspect the Eclipse plug-in will do mostly the same things that the NetBeans plug-in did... provide a basic project template. But we'll have to wait and see. Assuming nothing earth shattering, I can write the IDEA plug-in this year. Then I'd just need to update it each year within a day or two or the release of the new code.