Tools & Methods

Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition.  Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. ...

10 replies - 6253 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Maven Repository Nexus Pro Upgrades to 1.4

The newly announced 1.4 version of Nexus Professional, a Maven repository manager, introduces a full plugin model with improved capabilities.  "Plugin...

1 replies - 1531 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Eclipse Marketplace: Give Us Your Feedback

Earlier this year we started a project to re-create Eclipse Plugin Central.  Thanks to the hard work of Nathan Gervais, we are getting very close to making...

0 replies - 342 views - 10/22/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 1383 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

IP Log Tool Update

I’ve been working on a new version of the IP Log tool. This version leverages some pretty cool Eclipse technology. The first thing you see when you use the...

0 replies - 878 views - 09/24/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

AJDT 2.0 is Here

And it looks good. I complained pretty vociferously on here about the inability of eclipse to understand ITDs (or at least not show them as an error). That's...

1 replies - 2223 views - 07/27/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

Getting Started with Xtext

Xtext has been released as a part of the Eclipse Galileo release train on June 24th, 2009. Xtext is a framework for building DLSs (domain specific languages)....

0 replies - 4776 views - 06/30/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

Top 6 Insights From the Eclipse Community Survey

We have just published the results from the Eclipse community survey.  The results are pretty insightful and opened my eyes to some things I didn’t know...

0 replies - 1124 views - 05/28/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Using Java Assertions? Use an Assertion-failed Breakpoint!

I'm a big fan of assertions. I use them very often in my code as safeguards. I was very pleased when true, native assertions were introduced to Java: they...

4 replies - 5751 views - 05/07/09 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Getting Started With WikiText

Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you...

23 replies - 5391 views - 04/24/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

An Introduction To SonarJ for Eclipse

SonarJ is a plug-in for Eclipse that helps you validate your code against a software architecture, using static analysis. Malai met the founder of the company...

0 replies - 3150 views - 04/23/09 by Annamalai Chock... in Articles

Eclipse: Hitting A Breakpoint After The Fact

Ever wonder how to hit a breakpoint after you've passed it? You can do this with the Eclipse Java debugger. Here's how I do it:

6 replies - 1771 views - 02/02/09 by David Green in Tips and Tricks

Working With Patches and CVS

Many contributions to Eclipse projects start as a patch. Patches are great because they can encompass changes to multiple files and make it easy to collaborate...

0 replies - 1038 views - 01/29/09 by David Green in Articles

Eclipse Community Awards - Have You Nominated?

This year's Eclipse Community Awards will be presented at EclipseCon 2008 on March 23rd. If you still haven't had time to nominate someone you think is...

0 replies - 695 views - 01/28/09 by James Sugrue in News

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 - 2933 views - 01/06/09 by Tom Meier in Articles