http://eclipse.dzone.com/howto/current en http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/beyond-rich-text-part-2-displa Recently I wrote about a few simple tricks that make it possible to display more than just text in a StyledText widget. In this article I take it a step further: displaying images in an SWT StyledText widget. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/beyond-rich-text-part-2-displa#comments Java Frameworks http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/5078 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:16:46 -0400 1062 0 dgreen99 http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-233540.jpg Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:16:46 -0400 dgreen99 5078 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/perspectives-and-views-toolbar In the Eclipse IDE, I find it very inconvenient to go to the the Window:Open Perspective or Window:Show View submenu, and then select the one I want in dialog that is shown. I was inconvenienced enough that I wrote a simple Eclipse Plug-in called - Perspectives and Views Toolbar. The basic idea is that it adds two drop down menus to the toolbar. Using the drop down you can directly select the... http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/perspectives-and-views-toolbar#comments Java Client-side Eclipse Perspectives and Views Toolbar plug-in Frameworks http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4889 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:08:10 -0400 1697 0 sandipchitale http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-282629.png Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:08:10 -0400 sandipchitale 4889 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/pathtools-simple-yet-useful-ec In this article we develop a simple yet useful Eclipse plug-in PathTools.  The plug-in adds the following three actions to Eclipse.CopyPath - this action copies the fully qualified path of selected folders and files into the Clipboard. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/pathtools-simple-yet-useful-ec#comments IDEs http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4539 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:30:36 -0400 3371 8 sandipchitale http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-282629.png Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:30:36 -0400 sandipchitale 4539 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/more-productive-programming-wi The Tasktop Plug-ins for Eclipse extend the capabilities of Eclipse Mylyn to other aspects of the developer's workweek. In this article we take a brief look at the core benefits of Mylyn and introduce the Tasktop extensions for streamlining time reporting, calendaring, email and more. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/more-productive-programming-wi#comments Eclipse IDEs java Frameworks Project Mgmt. http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4230 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:37:00 -0400 10900 0 robert.elves@tasktop.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-318700.png Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:37:00 -0400 robert.elves@tasktop.com 4230 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/simulate-svn-commit-email-hook If you use Subversion, you probably know that you can enable a commit email hook on the server. Then you can configure svn to send emails out on every commit. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/simulate-svn-commit-email-hook#comments http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4181 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:28 -0400 2484 1 zl25drexel http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-318281.jpg Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:28 -0400 zl25drexel 4181 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/gracefully-loading-a-heavy-plu 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 since the user waits for platform to load anyway. However, if the plug-in is loaded on-demand, after the platform is already started, the user may experience an unexplained freeze.  http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/gracefully-loading-a-heavy-plu#comments Eclipse java plugin http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4165 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:30:14 -0400 1642 7 zvikico http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-223346.jpg Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:30:14 -0400 zvikico 4165 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/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, logger.debug, etc. Go to Windows->Preferences->Java->Editor->Templates , and put in the following templates http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/useful-eclipse-code-templates#comments Eclipse java http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4154 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:40:40 -0400 5008 18 zl25drexel http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-318281.jpg Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:40:40 -0400 zl25drexel 4154 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/adding-swt-input-validation-ea 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 applications have just ignored the matter altogether. When crafting an Eclipse RCP application, there are some help provided by SWT and JFace. We can add ModifyListeners and VerifyListeners to certain SWT widgets. JFace also provides... http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/adding-swt-input-validation-ea#comments eclipse RCP jface RCP Toolbox richclientgui SWT validation widgets http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/4127 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:01:35 -0400 3369 0 hlintvelt http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-252232.jpg Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:01:35 -0400 hlintvelt 4127 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/jprofiler-your-java-code-could 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 obvious pain-points, I had to turn to help of a profiler. At the end of the day, I managed to cut the execution time of some processes by 50% and more, by using JProfiler form ej-technologies.  http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/jprofiler-your-java-code-could#comments java performance Tools http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3958 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:25:45 -0400 9186 22 zvikico http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-223346.jpg Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:25:45 -0400 zvikico 3958 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/introducing-eclipselink The Eclipse Persistence Services Project, more commonly known as EclipseLink, is a comprehensive open source persistence solution.  EclipseLink was started by a donation of the full source code and test suites of Oracle's TopLink product. This project brings the experience of over 12 years of commercial usage and feature development to the entire Java community. This evolution into an open... http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/introducing-eclipselink#comments Eclipse java jpa http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3814 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:16:43 -0400 25005 9 djclarke http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-308401.jpg Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:16:43 -0400 djclarke 3814 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/unit-testing-with-testng-and-j TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very robust test cases without design limitations of other testing frameworks currently available. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/unit-testing-with-testng-and-j#comments agile Automation jmockit testng unit tests http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3733 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:22 -0400 5725 2 mminella http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-306406.jpg Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:22 -0400 mminella 3733 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/focus-your-work-week-even-more 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 interest (DOI) for resources related to a task. We can make this task context even richer and deliver efficiencies by providing first-class integration of our MDD tools with Mylyn. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/focus-your-work-week-even-more#comments Eclipse mylyn http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3649 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:15:30 -0400 3272 0 dgreen99 http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-233540.jpg Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:15:30 -0400 dgreen99 3649 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/an-introduction-glimmer Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate synchronizing UI with domain models. The goal of the Glimmer project is to create a JRuby framework on top of Eclipse technologies to enable easy and efficient authoring of desktop... http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/an-introduction-glimmer#comments dsl Eclipse glimmer Ruby SWT http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3592 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:14:10 -0400 9190 20 AndyMaleh http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-302612.jpg Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:14:10 -0400 AndyMaleh 3592 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/decorator-pattern-eclipse-mode 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 knowledge to implement the decorator pattern in EMF. In the process, we will be pushing our knowledge of generics a little further. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/decorator-pattern-eclipse-mode#comments Eclipse emf java modelling pattern http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3459 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:38 -0400 2003 0 ricker http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-204471.jpg Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:38 -0400 ricker 3459 at http://eclipse.dzone.com http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/faster-eclipse-on-slower-machi 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 that meaningfully speeds up my eclipse work flow. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/faster-eclipse-on-slower-machi#comments Eclipse java performance tips and Tricks http://eclipse.dzone.com/crss/node/3351 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:03:38 -0400 3382 9 coffeemate http://eclipse.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-253777.jpg Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:03:38 -0400 coffeemate 3351 at http://eclipse.dzone.com