Gracefully Loading a Heavy Plugin

Here's the challenge: I have a plug-in which may take more than a few seconds to load. That's not a problem if the plug-in is loaded when the platform starts...

7 replies - 377 views - 07/23/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Useful Eclipse Code Templates

Eclipse's Java editor allows you to define code templates. You can use them to code complete things that you type all the time, such as get logger,...

8 replies - 1229 views - 07/23/08 by zl25drexel in Articles

Adding SWT Input Validation the Easy Way

Any input provided by a user in a GUI application must typically be validated in one way or another. There is a number of ways this gets done, while some...

0 replies - 961 views - 07/21/08 by Herman Lintvelt in Articles

Take Your Eclipse Development One Step Further With Instantiations Tools

Instantiations just recently received the IBM Rational Software Validation for WindowBuilder Pro and have also been listed in the SD Times Top 100 Most...

1 replies - 1180 views - 07/16/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Write A Struts 2 Action Class In 5 Minutes Using Annotations

This tutorial is a continuation of Setup web application using spring Struts 2 and Maven with Eclipse 3.3. The project structure is as shown in the below...

4 replies - 2818 views - 07/14/08 by karthikeyan Cho... in News

TopLink Makes Transition to Open Source

The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes...

5 replies - 2857 views - 07/10/08 by djclarke in Articles

JProfiler: Your Java Code Could be Running Faster in Under Two Hours

A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a position which is well known to any professional Java developer: my software was simply too slow. After tackling some...

22 replies - 5908 views - 07/09/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

And the Winners Are... MyEclipse 6.5 License Winners

On 24 June 2008 Genuitec announced the availability of a new version of the MyEclipse IDE. Along with the announcement posted on the Web Builder Zone, Eclipse...

0 replies - 2457 views - 07/04/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Notes from Eclipse Day at Googleplex

Before I go into any details, I want to say that the Google t-shirt that I got for attending was almost worth the airfare, hotel stay and car rental.  Man am...

1 replies - 1368 views - 07/01/08 by James Ervin in News

BIRT 2.3 What's New And the Ganymede IDE for Java Report Developers

BIRT is a top level project through Eclipse and one of the most popular tools for designing and developing reports for business. Web Builder Zone Leader,...

0 replies - 5952 views - 06/30/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Notes from Eclipse Democamp in Dallas, Texas

I am late writing this blog since the democamp actually occurred last monday and it is now a week later.  I know my memory is a bit faulty, but I wanted to...

0 replies - 717 views - 06/30/08 by James Ervin in News

Introducing EclipseLink

The Eclipse Persistence Services Project, more commonly known as EclipseLink, is a comprehensive open source persistence solution.  EclipseLink was started by...

9 replies - 16446 views - 06/30/08 by djclarke in Articles

Create New Eclipse Workspace - With All Your Old Settings

It's all a matter of taste. Do you like to have just one workspace for all your projects, or do you prefer to have multiple separate workspaces?

12 replies - 2837 views - 06/30/08 by Tomas Kramar in News

GlassFish on Eclipse Ganymede

Eclipse Ganymede is the annual release of Eclipse projects; this year including 23 projects. Screencast

0 replies - 1963 views - 06/27/08 by Arun Gupta in Blogs

Eclipse Ganymede - 18 Million Lines of Code Delivered on Schedule

As many of you may know the annual Eclipse release train, called Ganymede, is now available. This is the third year in a row that the Eclipse community has...

8 replies - 8909 views - 06/25/08 by Ian Skerrett in Articles