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Gracefully Loading a Heavy Plugin

Here's the challenge: I have a plug-in which may take more than a few seconds to load. That's not a problem if the plug-in is loaded when the platform starts...

7 replies - 378 views - 07/23/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Useful Eclipse Code Templates

Eclipse's Java editor allows you to define code templates. You can use them to code complete things that you type all the time, such as get logger,...

8 replies - 1231 views - 07/23/08 by zl25drexel in Articles

Adding SWT Input Validation the Easy Way

Any input provided by a user in a GUI application must typically be validated in one way or another. There is a number of ways this gets done, while some...

0 replies - 961 views - 07/21/08 by Herman Lintvelt in Articles

JProfiler: Your Java Code Could be Running Faster in Under Two Hours

A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a position which is well known to any professional Java developer: my software was simply too slow. After tackling some...

22 replies - 5910 views - 07/09/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Introducing EclipseLink

The Eclipse Persistence Services Project, more commonly known as EclipseLink, is a comprehensive open source persistence solution.  EclipseLink was started by...

9 replies - 16446 views - 06/30/08 by djclarke in Articles

Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit

TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the...

2 replies - 3831 views - 06/24/08 by mminella in Articles

Focus Your Work Week (Even More): Beyond Mylyn 3.0

Mylyn and Tasktop provide a revolutionary approach to focusing the Eclipse UI. They work on the concept of having a task 'context', that defines a degree of...

0 replies - 2579 views - 06/20/08 by David Green in Articles

Glimmer - Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces

Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes...

20 replies - 6829 views - 06/19/08 by AndyMaleh in Articles

Decorator Pattern in the Eclipse Modelling Framework

In the previous article, I discussed how to create generic classes in the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). In this article, I will discuss how to use that...

0 replies - 1672 views - 06/11/08 by Jeffrey Ricker in Articles

Faster Eclipse On Slower Machine

If your computer goes slower while working in a big project, you recognize that you need to do some tweaks to work more fluidly. Here i share some of my tricks...

8 replies - 2666 views - 06/06/08 by kadir pekel in Articles

How to Make JBoss Seam Work with Eclipse (for Windows)

This is a step-by-step tutorial. I made this Tutorial, because I was not happy with the four project folders generated by JBoss Tools 2.0.0 when I select a new...

2 replies - 1603 views - 05/23/08 by techieexchange in Articles

Generics in Eclipse Modelling Framework

Java introduced the power of generics in version 1.5. Generics make many common tasks in programming not only simple but elegant. The most notable instance is...

0 replies - 2543 views - 05/06/08 by Jeffrey Ricker in Articles

Plug-in Development 101: The Fundamentals

Plug-in development in Eclipse is somewhat of an art form. If you're new to the concept of plug-ins, especially in the context of OSGi and Eclipse, it can be...

0 replies - 5851 views - 05/05/08 by Chris Aniszczyk in Articles

How To Debug a Remote Java Application

The importance of being able to debug a Java application that is deployed remotely, in another country or city, cannot be understated. Recently I was...

2 replies - 4373 views - 04/30/08 by in Articles

How to Run Eclipse 3.3 on Ubuntu 7.10

Standard Ubuntu Gutsy installation does not support Eclipse 3.3 in its package repository, only 3.2 is available. So, if you're a Ubuntu 7.10 users that would...

0 replies - 2893 views - 04/10/08 by James Sugrue in Articles