Just upgraded my Macbook Pro (3,1) to Snow Leopard and the increase in speed and responsiveness of the system is immediately apparent. While everything seems to be working fine, two of my work-related softwares are broken. One is Macports, the fix is quite easy, just an upgrade to the new Macports version and its good to go. The other one is Eclipse Galileo.

Since i’m primarily a java developer I need an updated JDK, Snow Leopard comes with a 64-bit Java 1.6; there’s a rumor going around that there is a 32-bit version, but I can’t seem to find it in my system. So with a 32-bit Eclipse, the IDE can’t detect any JDK in the system. The solution is quite simple, just download the classic 64-bit Eclipse (its at the bottom of the Eclipse download page). While with this approach, you have to install the plugins yourself, but it beats having an old JDK to work with.