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How to Enable Templates in a Custom Editor

The template feature is one of the most used features in Eclipse editors, providing auto-completion for the code syntax. When you type “for” in the Java...

0 replies - 2121 views - 01/22/09 by rajeshk21 in Articles

Plans for 2009

A new year brings new projects and new plans for marketing at Eclipse. I thought it would be useful to let the community know some of our plans for 2009. Of...

1 replies - 1990 views - 01/21/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Eclipse Slideshow

I briefly mentioned some presentation software I’ve been working on on-and-off for a while a few postings back. Eclipse Slideshow has gotten to the point...

0 replies - 1503 views - 01/20/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Mike Squillace and Accessibility in Eclipse

In this podcast (15:21), Mike Squillace, co-Technical Lead for the ACTF project discusses his EclipseCon 2009 Main stage presentation, Eclipse for All: Doing...

0 replies - 770 views - 01/15/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Disable or Enable ActionSets on Perspective Change in an Eclipse RCP Application

Here is the challenge: I would like to enable or disable some action-sets according to the perspective the user activates. This should be done through a...

0 replies - 4098 views - 01/14/09 by dmissoh in Articles

Eclipse Plug-ins: An Interview With the Authors

The book, Eclipse Plug-ins, just released its third edition. It’s guaranteed to be a big seller among Eclipse developers and those looking to get into...

1 replies - 1889 views - 01/14/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Equinox Refcard Now Available - An Interview With Jeff McAffer

DZone today launched the Equinox Refcard, covering everything that you need to know to get started on writing OSGi bundles for Equinox, Eclipse's OSGi...

0 replies - 5257 views - 01/12/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

The EclipseCon 2009 Emerging Technology Track

Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track...

0 replies - 986 views - 01/09/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

p2 Tip of the Week: How Do I Get My Feature Branding Back?

You may have noticed that feature brandings disappear if you get rid of all the update manager stuff and just use p2 (version 3.4.1). The solution to get the...

0 replies - 763 views - 01/09/09 by Kai Tödter in Tips and Tricks

Commands Part 2: Selection and Enablement of IHandlers

In the last tip, we saw that a Handler can be declared separately from a Command. This enables for multiple handler declarations for the same command. We can...

0 replies - 1623 views - 01/08/09 by Prakash in Articles

My Technology Resolutions for 2009

It's that time of year where I try to decide what technologies I'm going to focus on for the next few months, a developer's new year resolutions. 2008 was a...

2 replies - 3295 views - 01/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Maven, Eclipse and Continuous Integration

One of the key factors in mixed Eclipse/PDE/Maven projects and the most difficult to set up is a working build system with Maven. Setting up a large Maven...

0 replies - 3016 views - 01/06/09 by Tom Meier in Articles

Commands Part 1: Actions Vs Commands

As you would have seen, there are two different ways to contributing to the Workbench: Actions and Commands. Although Commands are newer and advanced, I've...

0 replies - 1714 views - 01/05/09 by Prakash in Articles

Fast-Start Eclipse for Testing and Debugging

During the development of my Eclipse plug-in (nWire) I had to test and fine-tune the behavior of the plug-ins upon startup. It's an annoying situation: you...

0 replies - 1611 views - 01/05/09 by Zviki Cohen in Tips and Tricks

The Nuts, Bolts and Springs of Distributed OSGi Applications

Using Spring with OSGi is a revolution in the application server environment. Spring gives you flexibility, OSGi gives you dynamicity, but complexity can...

0 replies - 6792 views - 12/30/08 by Nitin Bharti in Videos