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Veera Sundar12/15/12
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How to Change the Default Webapp Deployment Location of Tomcat in Eclipse

When you deploy your Java web application to the Apache Tomcat server, via Eclipse, by default the web app will be deployed to a directory that is not so easy to remember.

James Sugrue12/11/12
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Wireframe Sketcher: A Must Have For UI Developers

If you're developing user interfaces for any application, you'll want to use a prototyping tool at some stage to get your ideas and workflows across to a wider audience.

Alex Ruiz11/14/12
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Weekend Project: Thread Dump Viewer for Eclipse

A couple of weeks ago, one of our users reported that Eclipse consistently froze when executing some action. I was hoping that Eclipse would have an editor where I can open the thread dump I got and navigate, through hyperlinks, from stack traces to source code.

Anton Arhipov11/10/12
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How Well Do You Know Your IDE?

Mostly, people will say that they just use the IDE and I haven't really seen many people leveraging the power of refactorings, shortcuts, or other awesome IDE features that are out there. Why? Laziness? Carelessness? Neglect?

Erich Styger11/08/12
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Foreign Characters for the Eclipse Build System

Having a problem with Eclipse and building files with foreign characters in the file name? If you are developing software, then read and follow this advice:

Markus Eisele11/06/12
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Polyglot Persistence: EclipseLink with MongoDB and Derby

I'm not a big fan of Scala and remembered EclipseLink's growing support for NoSQL databases. Given that I simply had to try this.

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/12
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We Need a Programmer for President

Today, I'm going to present a new presidential candidate... A software developer candidate. This candidate is going to address the issues that the IT world cares about. Will you support them?

Lyndsey Clevesy10/30/12
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Ode to Eclipse Bug 8009

The bug has a very rich history, and I encourage you to read through at least a portion of the thread. One of my favorite parts is at the very end of the comment history, where folks raise a glass to toast the 10 year anniversary of the bug.

Erich Styger10/19/12
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Hovering and Debugging

Eclipse provides in the Editor view great tool tips (called ‘hovers’) which shows what is behind a macro: I can move my mouse over it, and it shows me the content behind it:

Dan Haywood10/15/12
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Giving up on Eclipse Juno

What I didn’t talk about then was the issues I’ve been having generally with Juno. I had thought it was my own installation being screwy, but things haven’t improved much since.

Lukas Eder10/11/12
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Learn Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts Easily

Using keyboard shortcuts can vastly increase your productivity. Instead of switching between keyboard and mouse all the times, trying to figure out where that mouse cursor is, left/right clicking your way through context menus nested several levels deep, you could’ve just hit Alt-Shift-I, for instance, for inlining constants, variables, methods, etc… But how to remember the most important ones? Tricky…