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James Sugrue02/20/08
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Is "Diversity" Eclipse's Secret Weapon?

Eclipse is the type of platform that lends itself to diversity. You can see that in the wide array of plugins that are available to download, and the variety of languages that people use Eclipse as an IDE for.

Roman Roelofsen02/15/08
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A Comparison of OSGi and Android

Last year, the Open Handset Alliance announced Android, a platform specially targeted at mobile devices. Due to the support from Google, Android received a lot of attention in the community. However, one of the hottest technologies for 2008 is OSGi, a...

Tomas Kramar02/15/08
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Effective Eclipse: Shortcut keys

You should try to keep your hands on keyboard. The less you touch the mouse, the more code you can write. I am trying to keep the mouse laying still and control the IDE completely using keyboard. What do you think is faster: pressing ALT + C or right clicking...

Chris Aniszczyk02/14/08
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Full Screen your RCP Applications

In Eclipse 3.4, it's now possible to full-screen an SWT Shell. In simple terms, this means that you can add full-screen support to your Eclipse-based applications fairly easily. For example, take this simple action you could add to your application:

Raffaele Gambelli02/14/08
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How to Grab Eclipse Console Output Painlessly

In your plugin, if you want to do something with each line of your eclipse output console, for example write that line to a file, or parsing it before sending it to your custom eclipse view, you should create a class which implements IConsoleLineTracker, and...

Rick Ross02/13/08
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Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa!

Any of you who has visited the Javalobby homepage in the past couple of weeks has probably gotten a shock, and my first order of business is to take the responsibility for one of our least graceful design transitions ever. It was basically a case study in...

James Sugrue02/13/08
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SpringIDE - Using Spring in Eclipse

The following article introduces SpringIDE - a set of plugins to simplify development of Spring based applications in Eclipse. I'll cover how to get started with Spring and how to write a simple Spring AOP example.

Ian Skerrett02/11/08
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EclipseCon Early Registration Deadline is Approaching

The deadline for EclipseCon early registration is Thursday, February 14. If you register before this date, you will save $300.EclipseCon features a dense program of technical content about all things Eclipse. In addition, we are co-hosting a couple of...

Iwema 02/11/08
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5 Eclipse plugins I can't live without

I know, I know, I'm the n'th guy with a list about Eclipse plugins. But blogging about installing Eclipse plugins can't really go without a list of the plugins I actually use, and can't live without. Besides, if no one cares, I still have a good reference...

Iwema 02/11/08
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Install your Eclipse plugins in a different directory

Eclipse is my favorite editor, or more precisely my favorite integrated development environment, simply IDE. I do not really have very strong arguments for why I prefer it, I just always did. In fact, today it gave me all kinds of exceptions because I tried...

James Sugrue02/11/08
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Eclipse 3.4 M5 Released

The Eclipse 3.4 M5 milestone was released on February 7.The release notes contain full details on what's new, and what's fixed, but here's a short rundown on the main points of the release.The Plugin Development Environment has a new editor to create Context...

Tomas Kramar02/08/08
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Effective Eclipse: Setup Your Environment

Today, I was taught an important lesson. The lesson of effectiveness.

Henrik Schulz02/08/08
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Will Eclipse RCP ever be used for more than the IDE and for making nerd applications?

The Eclipse RCP is a framework for client applications that has clearly been used with great success to support the IDE itself, but when it comes to building other applications the picture is not necessarily as clear. Lately I have had to ask myself,...

Steven Devijver02/07/08
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Groovy & Eclipse: Lead Plugin Developer Speaks

Edward Povazan, project lead of the Groovy Eclipse plugin project and long-time Groovy user, speaks with DZone about the status of the plugin, the planned support for Grails in Eclipse and other future improvements.

Marcin Maciukiewicz02/04/08
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Scripting Eclipse with the Monkey Project: An Introduction

Whenever it comes to non standard tasks, scripting is handy. Linux has shell scripting, GIMP supports Python, modern text editors support macros. Now Eclipse users have no longer to be ashamed. There is new star in Eclipse.org constellation - the Monkey...