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…

Erich Styger10/11/12
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Spaces vs. Tabs in Eclipse

I admit: I’m a ‘space’ person. What I mean is that I prefer ‘spaces’ over ‘tabs’ in my source code. Why? Because I don’t want to relay on the tab width, and I prefer to use ‘two spaces for an intention level’.

Arun Manivannan10/05/12
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Architexa - a Fine Code Reading Tool

I love reading code for two reasons : If the code is bad, it is an awesome ego boost PLUS you get to foul mouth someone who has a good reputation for designing amazing things.

Antonio Santiago10/03/12
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Architexa Product Review

I have only tried using it a little but the conclusions are clear: Architexa is a tool with a great potential.

Dan Haywood09/30/12
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Eclipse Juno JEE Setup

My installation of Eclipse Juno seemed to have got its knickers in rather a twist, so just spent a “happy” hour reinstalling the damn thing.

Gal Levinsky09/29/12
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Seamlessly Static Meta Model generation

I would like to introduce a simple, quick and straight forward way to create Static Meta Model classes.

Mitch Pronschinske09/26/12
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Connect With DZone at JavaOne 2012!

This is our call to all DZone community members who will be attending the conference next week! Please get in touch with us and let's make plans to meet and talk.

Enrico Maria Cr...09/11/12
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Architexa Review: Understand and Document Java Code Bases within Eclipse

People at Architexa have just released its Architexa tool for free to individuals and teams up to 3 members. Using their own slogan, Architexa is a tool "to understand and document Java code bases within Eclipse". At first it seems yet-another tool to generate UML diagrams from an existing code base (and it certainly is) but it has got other interesting features that differentiates it from its competitors. In fact, such tools have been around for a long time and some of them even enjoyed good adoption rates (think about Rational Rose).

Brian Swan09/10/12
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21 Windows Azure News Links from August

It's Friday again, I hope you're all enjoying the last few weeks of summer before we head into the cooler fall weather (at least here in the northern hemisphere.) It's still relatively hot here in North Carolina, though the nights are getting cooler. Here's a collection of links Brian and I discovered this week for your weekend reading:

Erich Styger09/06/12
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Removing Blank Lines in Eclipse

Many times I end up using source files from somebody else. And such files might have a lot of empty lines in it I want to get removed. The question is: how to get rid of empty or blank lines in the Eclipse Editor view? Or even better: how to merge multiple empty lines into one?

Veera Sundar08/27/12
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Organize Imports in Eclipse

Today I learned a neat trick to organize imports in Eclipse. Of course, one can use Ctrl + Shift + O to remove the unused imports at file level. But what if you want to remove the unused imports for several files, may be at package level?

Wayne Beaton08/22/12
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Exceptional Circumstances

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting gaps get filled naturally. Diversity in a project is one way of making sure that gaps fill naturally: if the developers from one organization lose interest, then developers from an another organizations step in.

Erich Styger08/20/12
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Icon and Label Decorators in Eclipse

From time to time, I scratch my head and ask myself: Gee, that file icon looks interesting and different, what does it mean? What I’m wondering about is on Eclipse Icon Decorators. Label and Icon Decorations allow additional information to be displayed in an item’s label and icon. Very powerful. But as with many powerful things: if you don’t know it, it might cause harm or confusion.