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Posts Tagged Eclipse

What I Want From TextMate…

…is pretty much what Dion says. Ctrl-click on a symbol to jump to the method/class/module/rdoc. I miss that very much from the Java days…now its command-T, open the file, realize its the wrong file…do a search across or project or grep…etc. Refactoring and autocomplete are hard with Ruby, I understand, but getting […]


java.awt.List - the Bane of IDE AutoCompletion

When I’m cruising in Eclipse, nothing disrupts flow like having to fix stupid import problems. FOr example, I type in a reference to List and try to autocorrect it:

Oh! I wanted the standard collection type, not the AWT specific list! Here, Eclipse, let me tell you I need the the standard list […]


Two points for Eclipse

Mathias wrote about why he is switching to IDEA. From talking with IDEA users and watching demos at conferences, its obvious that IDEA has the polish and finish that Eclipse + web tools + duct tape doesn’t.
However, Eclipse has two key points going for it that keep me loyal:

Eclipse has dominant market […]


Eclipse tip: always save automatically to stay in the flow

I almost never want to be asked if I want to save an editor window in Eclipse. With the safeguards of version control and local history, there is never a save that cannot be reverted easily. When I’m really in the flow, I want the cycle to be seamless between edit test case, […]


IDE code smell: generated comment templates in repository

Many of the modern automated IDEs insert boilerplate comments into your code as your create new classes, methods, code blocks, etc. They contain something like the following:
/*
* Created on Aug 15, 2005
*
* @author Insert Name Here
* Insert type description here
*
* To change the template for this generated […]


Keeping IDE/JDK in version control

Do you keep a copy of your IDE in version control to use across multiple machines? Specifically, if you were to keep Eclipse + WTP + whatever in CVS, what meta data should be included and what should be ignored. I’d like to add my general workspace stuff to CVS to use across […]


Pretty classpath output from Ant

Pretty classpath output from Ant:
How to take this:
current.classpath=d:\work\proto\dist\foo-toolkit.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hiber
nate-2.1.8\lib\dom4j-1.4.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\commons-discovery-0.2\commons-discov
ery.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\hibernate2.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibernat
e-2.1.8\lib\c3p0-0.8.4.5.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\cglib-full-2.0.2
.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\ehcache-0.9.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibern
ate-2.1.8\lib\jta.jar;d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\odmg-3.0.jar;d:\work\pr…
to this:

[echo] Classpath is :
[echo]
[echo] d:\work\proto\dist\foo-toolkit.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\dom4j-1.4.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\commons-discovery-0.2\commons-discovery.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\hibernate2.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\c3p0-0.8.4.5.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\cglib-full-2.0.2.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\ehcache-0.9.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\jta.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\odmg-3.0.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\oscache-2.0.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\hibernate-2.1.8\lib\swarmcache-1.0rc2.jar
[echo] d:\work\proto\lib\oracle-10g\classes12-10g.jar
Using “propertyregex” to replace semicolons with […]


Eclipse Web Tools 0.7 and flexible projects

Guillermo blogged about his experience with WTP 0.7 and the lack of project refactorings and ability to change default JavaSource & WebContent folders. This has been an issue that’s bothered me for awhile. I’ve been amazed at the attention given to allowing “flexible projects” with WTP - meaning mulitple modules within one […]