The latest Eclipse Theia release isn’t the kind of announcement that arrives with fireworks, sweeping claims, or a promise to reinvent software development by lunchtime. That’s probably a good thing.

The release includes an embedded MCP server that exposes Spring project analytics to AI coding assistants, along with first-class support for Spring AI and automated property refactoring.

For me, AI has been amazing for... 1. Setting up Maven for a Selenium-Eclipse-Java testing style. 2. Made sure I had the right Node and NPM installed for Playwright. 3. Helped me figure out a bit of ...