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
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
As is the habit at this time of year, I'd like to take some time to look back on how the year has been for EclipseZone and to consider what we'll be doing in...
1 replies - 4925 views - 12/22/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
The following article documents an architectural solution to a problem which I’ve encountered in many enterprise computing environments. Problem:
4 replies - 5340 views - 12/08/08 by ggalang in Articles
I have been working recently on the build automation of our Eclipse’s project. Manually generating pacakages was boring, not safe and time consuming...
2 replies - 1933 views - 12/05/08 by Manuel Selva in Articles
A busy week has started again:
0 replies - 2029 views - 12/04/08 by ekke in Articles
Having had a front seat to the mania that was the SWT v. Swing debate, clearly the broader question of why IBM has almost never seen fit to enhance what was in...
1 replies - 1421 views - 12/03/08 by Rob Williams in Articles
Eclipse has a Plug-in Registry view, which shows the state of all plug-ins in the running instance of Eclipse. But what if you need to analyze a crashed...
0 replies - 1444 views - 12/02/08 by nayashkova in Articles
At ESE, I had a nice chat with Chris (actually, I had a lot of nice chats with a lot of nice people - it was quite a challenge to attend any of the sessions),...
1 replies - 2117 views - 12/01/08 by Peter Friese in Articles
I had a great time at Eclipse DemoCamp last night. I was really impressed by two presentations in particular, both of them about testing tools.
0 replies - 843 views - 11/27/08 by David Green in News
Eclipse has many ways of doing things. Finding the way that suits you can be tricky. :-) The standard find dialog triggered by Crtl+F is, well, standard. But...
2 replies - 2226 views - 11/25/08 by Vasanth Dharmaraj in Tips and Tricks
Some things lend themselves to TDD better than others. Code generation, it turns out, scores a 10 on this front. (To some people, it‘s heresy to think that...
2 replies - 4149 views - 11/21/08 by Rob Williams in Articles
It’s not a typical article title, but from day one of Eclipse Summit Europe these are the three main points I’ve taken away. I haven’t been to ESE...
0 replies - 3264 views - 11/20/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
Today, Tasktop release the Autumn 2008 version of the tool, adding Linux and Firefox support. I met with Mik Kersten,Tasktop CEO and Eclipse Mylyn project lead...
0 replies - 1261 views - 11/12/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
There are many tools these days that generate code. Before writing such a tool, stop to consider if you really should be generating code in the first place....
0 replies - 1793 views - 10/26/08 by merks in Articles
