The Eclipse Project is home to a quite reasonable amount of sub projects, the list keeps growing every year, so to help the end-user the Eclipse Foundation arranges a simultaneous yearly release of Eclipse and all sub projects. Ganymede is the 2008 release, following Europa in 2007 and Callisto in 2006, and it contains Eclipse’s latest version (3.4).
Posts Tagged: eclipse
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Jun 07
Microsoft’s answer to Eclipse?
Could this be Microsoft’s answer to Eclipse Platform? Maybe, but trusting on my experience with GAT/GAX it will still be easier to develop Eclipse plugins.
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Jan 07
Javapolis 2006 Presentations
Javapolis has become one of the major Java events in Europe, combining in one place and one week the latest trends in different kinds of presentations. Last year’s edition took place in December and now the videos of several presentations, hopefully all of them in the near future, are being released online, something really neat for people like me that couldn’t be there:
There’s more content, such as presentation slides in pdf, available at Javapolis homepage (requires fres registration).
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May 06
Refactoring in VS 2005
It’s nice to have refactoring in Visual Studio 2005, but I think it’s still way behind what’s available in Eclipse: I miss things like refactoring a package (that’s a namespace in .Net) name with a couple of clicks.
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Mar 06
Using Team System and Eclipse
It was a matter of time until someone come out with a way to access Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server from Eclipse:
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Jan 06
Eclipse Project – Callisto Simultaneous Release
The Eclipse Foundation is preparing a simultaneous release, named Callisto after Jupiter’s moon (and voted by the community), of the ten of it’s projects, although this isn’t a merge of all of them.
This will include some of the most widely used projects, like Visual Editor, Web Tools or Data Tools, and will be a fine way to get them in one package.
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Jan 06
Using Scrapbook Pages
One of the most undervalued and forgotten features of Eclipse is the scrapbook page, which allows to execute Java expressions without having to create a new Java program. This is a neat way to quickly test an existing class or evaluate a code snippet.
To create a scrapbook page choose File -> New -> Other -> Java -> Java Run/Debug -> Scrapbook Page, choose a name and destination folder and that’s it.
Now there’s an empty page where regular Java expressions can be written and evaluated, to do so just select the expression and choose one of the availabe operations (either in the toolbar now available or the context menu).
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Try this: write new java.util.Date(), selecting the text and clicking Display or Inspect. Display will evaluate the expression and print the result directly on the scrapbook, basically the return of a toString() applied to that object or the return value of the selected Java method. If the information displayed is not enough, there’s the Inspect feature (just like the example on the right) which shows an debug window with all the details of the selected object, and all this happens without executing any code or switching to the Debug perspective. |
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To evaluate code snippets there’s the Execute feature, this will execute a block of code, just like in a regular java program. A quick way to try this is to send something to the standard output: just write System.out.println("Scrapbook example"), select the text and hit Run, this should print something on the Console window (just like the example on the right). Because a scrapbook page is created within a Java project, all the classpath libraries and projects references can be used; another nice feature is having the code assist, just like in a regular Java editor page. In a scrapbook page the class names fully qualified, there’s no, this isn’t much of a problem because the code completion handles this nicely, but if you’re working with unusually large class names you can check the Set Imports option, this will open new window where all the import expressions can be inserted (just the import section of a regular class file). A scrapbook page is not as fully featured as the Java editor, there’s no outline and the code assist is somehow limited, but is not meant to that way; the idea is working with just a few lines, and this where the scrapbook page can be usefull: to quickly test Java expressions and code blocks present in a project in this kind of sandbox. |
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2
Jan 06
Javapolis 2005
This years edition of JavaPolis, one of the finest Java events in Europe, took place last month in Antwerp, Belgium and delivered five days of conferences and presentations in every length and format you can think of. Javapolis is not vendor oriented so you can see different blends of the Java world together in the same event, an fine example of that is all the talks dedicated for each one of IDE currently used (of course Eclipse in Action had to be a do not miss).
For me one of the most interesting would have to be Maven 2.0 by Vincent Massol, one of the lead commiters of the project, to get bit deeper on what the new version of Maven, released in the late Summer, can do. Other interesting events are related to the current trends of the Java world: the evolution of Spring, EJB 3.0 or the SOA hype just to name a few.
Sadly I couldn’t see it live but now the slides are available online for most of the events and, hopefuly just like last year, soon we’ll have the videos too.
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Dec 05
Eclipse Web Tools 1.0 released!
The Eclipse Foundation has finally released the first major public version of the Web Tools Platform, after a few milestone and RC versions. The WTP is a subproject of Eclipse providing support for building web and J2EE applications with this popular open source tool, something where Eclipse was loosing ground to other tools (like Netbeans or Intellij Idea).
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Nov 05
Probably the best Eclipse plugin ever!
Lately we there have been lots of new additions to the Eclipse projects, stuff like the Web Tools or BIRT, and some more are on their way. One of those emerging plugins is Mylar, and it"s probably one of the coolest things ever seen in Eclipse lately!
It’s difficult to explain what’s Mylar in a few lines, but it’s kind of a intelligent view for the Navigator, Outline or Package Explorer that automatically filters the files/classes/methods/etc. you’re really working on, instead of showing everything. This is pretty useful in projects with a few hundreds of files, like the ones I’m working on right now… 
For a closer look on what you can do with Mylar check this neat presentation or download it and try if for yourself (no binaries, only available using Eclipse Update).
May I you remind this still a beta version and there still are a few issues to resolve and lots of work to do, but it’s already very useful as it is right now.
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