Eclipse is a popular IDE for Java, C and other languages.
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Best IDE for Linux (Ubunutu) [closed]
I would like to have my default OS as Linux. But the reason I'm still using windows is because of Eclipse IDE. I have installed Eclipse IDE in Ubunutu but it is not showing any auto suggestion when I ...
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Eclipse Graphiti, How to add Palette entries during runtime? [migrated]
I'm trying to build some editor and it need to be very flexible/adjustable. So i know which Elements i get in the Palette recently at Start or at run-time of my Editor. My idea is i load which ...
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Eclipse task organization [closed]
I'm trying to organize my project developing in Eclipse a little bit more. I always leaving TODO comments an bookmarks in code. Eclipse has a view with TODO list or Task List as shown on image below:
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Are there any advantages to using Eclipse RCP for a new project? [closed]
Given the advancements in rich client side HTML5 applications (apart from developer familiarity) are there good reasons to start a new application using Eclipse RCP as opposed to something like ...
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Is imposing the same code format for all developers a good idea?
We are considering to impose a single standard code format in our project (auto format with save actions in Eclipse). The reason is that currently there is a big difference in the code formats used by ...
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Which past version of Netbeans IDE that has lightness almost equal or better than Eclipse Indigo?
Currently, I'm a long Eclipse user because my past and current companies always deal with eclipse. Recently I met some example java codes created using netbeans. I downloaded and tried Netbeans 7.x ...
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Which VCS is more applicable for our workflow?
Currently we have code stored on a shared network drive and do not use any kind of VCS. The code stored on our shared network drive is always being backed up. We would like to keep things as close ...
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What are the advantages of Maven when it comes to single man, educational projects
I've spend a few hours playing around with Maven + reading some stuff on the apache official site and also a few random googled articles. By this I mean that I really tried to find the answers myself ...
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Is the output of Eclipse's incremental java compiler used in production? Or is it simply to support Eclipse's features?
I'm new to Java and Eclipse. One of my most recent discoveries was how Eclipse comes shipped with its own java compiler (ejc) for doing incremental builds. Eclipse seems to by default output ...
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Progressbar patterns (Eclipse)
I've struggled quite a bit with Eclipse and progress-monitors to try to have good progressbars which report useful progress information to the user. Inevitably the code gets cluttered with lots of ...
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What are the advantages of using the Java debugger over println?
I always use System.out.println(...) to debug my code, and it works pretty well. In which cases do you use the eclipse java debugger? I never had to use it and the little bug symbol is still ab bit ...
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Why does Eclipse need to be restarted after installing a plugin?
As Eclipse uses OSGi to handle modules and bundles, and therefore should be able to hot-deploy them, why does it suggest to restart after installing a plugin "for changes to take effect"?
Has Eclipse ...
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Free tool to design Java user interfaces [closed]
While in the process of developing GUIs for my Java project, I am wondering if there is something that lets you visually design your GUI for Java and correspondently generates the needed code, just to ...
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What are the benefits of prefixing function parameter names with p*?
I often see projects (in Java projects and teams using Eclipse) that prefix function parameters with p.
For example
public void filter (Result pResult) ...
I personally don't see any benefit in ...
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How to create a cool user interface for an excel file in java or C#? [closed]
I have an excel file with many sheets and relations between theme (ie, formulas that relates sheets to each other). I wanna create the user interface for this excel file.in other words I wanna create ...
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How to modify the open-save-close life-cycle MapEditor class in a uDig Eclipse RCP
I am working on a uDig application. I have been trying to figure out how to modify the open-save-close life cycle of the MapEditor class created by uDig. The reason being I want to make sure that ...
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How to make Eclipse code look like Sublime or Intellij, adding lines for code blocks? [closed]
I really like Eclipse, but I find that almost any other IDE or text editor has something that I can't find in Eclipse: a vertical line that indicates a code block.
Is there any plugin in, or option ...
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Submitting Java Code with Junit unit test
I have mostly worked on simple java programs and compiled and run them with Eclipse on Windows. So, I have no experience of using command prompt for compiling Java projects and do not have much info ...
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Eclipse full screen editor
Is there any way to make Eclipse's editor window go full screen? I can maximize the editor, but that still doesn't get rid of ridiculous amounts of all sorts of widgets I don't need.
I am looking for ...
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myeclipse: can I customize templates like sysout in jsp
Myeclipse's java code templates like sysout make coding easier, and they can also be customized. But seems it's jsp editor has no such capability.
Is it possible to create and customize some ...
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How much time do you spend actually developing vs. infrastructure activites?
When I'm working I feel like most of the time I'm not doing actual work. For example after making a change to the code in order to test it, I have to first build the project, and start the server(say ...
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Is a company order to switch to a certain IDE a red flag?
I recently joined a rapidly growing startup. In the past 3 months the development team has grown from 4 to 12. Until now they were very laissez-faire about what developers used to do their work. In ...
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How to start with open source?
I'm working as Java junior developer for about a year. On work I'm using Eclipse IDE. It's open source and I like it very much, but there's still a lot of bugs & stuff that could be improved. I'd ...
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What is used in industry to manage Eclipse installations? [closed]
In a recent servery, Eclipse came out on top as the most used IDE Infographic
My question is how does managing Eclipse installations work in industry? I have been trying this tool called Yoxos which ...
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Versioning Within a Platform
I work with a few different web platforms, and my actual projects are typically quite small, and live within those platforms. The project files are scattered throughout the platform tree, which makes ...
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Eclipse teaching: on new projects, which mode: debug or release?
I'm asked to teach to my students Eclipse.
The lectures are already done, and I see that the teacher asks the students to always start a new project in "Release" mode.
Is that normal? If "yes", or ...
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Is there an efficient way to convert a Java project with a TUI into one with a GUI?
So I need to make the interface of a Java-database application a GUI. We coded the project in Eclipse, and I am going to import it into Netbeans. In Netbeans there's a great GUI builder, but I'm ...
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What's there in Eclipse, other than PyDev, for a Python developer?
Like many other people, I use Eclipse with the excellent PyDev plugin (available in the Eclipse Marketplace) to develop my Python projects. And like most people with the same setup, I came to PyDev ...
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Setting up Eclipse IDE for Python and PHP development
There are various versions of Eclipse IDE available at Eclipse Download. Since, I am not concerned with Java development, I downloaded the Eclipse Classic 3.7.1. Now, I want my IDE to be setup for ...
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source code file system layout for 2 very similar projects (with git)
we're working on "two" android apps that are very similar; in fact, they're the same apps with different graphics and color schemes, slightly different configuration and one or two unique activities ...
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How to become an Eclipse contributor? [closed]
I dont think I get enough programming at work so I'm thinking of doing some contributions to Eclipse. Seems that might be the only way to get some of my bugs fixed :)
But how do I get started? What ...
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eclipse code review plug-in for C [closed]
What is a good open source Eclipse plug-in for C that can be customized to enforce/review specific coding standard?
Update: "Codan" is one of the good plug-in. This is what I expected. Thanks for ...
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How can I avoid the engineering mistakes of PDT?
As a developer with enough experience to evaluate a tool, I may say that PDT is very huge in size and slow in performance for a PHP IDE.
It gets bigger by release and exponentially slower by the size ...
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Why does Microsoft charge a fortune for its developer tools?
Microsoft charges thousands of dollars for most versions of Visual Studio. Compare this with companies like Apple and Google and with organizations like GNU and Eclipse that give away developer tools ...
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How do I convince my teammates that we should not ignore compiler warnings?
I work on a huge project (more like a tangled up combination of dozens of mini projects that can't be easily separated due to poor dependency management, but that's a different discussion) in Java ...
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What is involved in learning Eclipse-RCP, from zero Java background?
I've not yet started working on a new project where everything is done with "Eclipse RCP" which I never heard of until last week. We'll use lots of Java and SWT for GUI. I'd like to get up to speed ...
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Why do my java programs run faster in eclipse than in BlueJ?
I've been programming for about 2 years, and so far Java is all I know.
When I made the switch from BlueJ to eclipse I noticed my old projects ran much faster. What would be the reason for this, as ...
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What was Java enterprise programming like before Eclipse?
I'm your standard Java/Oracle developer at a large software firm and Eclipse 3.6 is what I spend most of day in. Java is incredibly verbose and that can be painful (but we don't need another blog post ...
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What advantages do simple text editors like TextMate have over Eclipse for Java development?
I'm torn which IDE to use. The power of eclipse or the simplicity of TextMate. I'm wondering which one has specific advantages over the other, productivity wise.
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App Engine SDK Dev transition to Google Plugin for Eclipse
I'm trying to understand the transition people make with their apps in the App Engine SDK and how/why/what they move to the Google Plugin for Eclipse. It seems you can create a web application using ...
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Which profiler to use in Eclipse Indigo?
It seems like TPTP will no longer exist in Eclipse Indigo and future releases. (See here) So what shall I do? Back to Helios? Or choose another profiler alternatives other then TPTP?
(I've tried ...
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Is there minimap plugin for Eclipse? [closed]
I'm looking for Eclipse plugin which may show something like mini-map of code. I think this may be nice feature. Here you can see example of what I mean (it's TextMap plugin for gedit).
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What have my fellow Delphi programmers done to make Eclipse/Java more like Delphi?
I am a veteran Delphi programmer working on my first real Android app. I am using Eclipse and Java as my development environment. The thing I miss the most of course is Delphi's VCL components and ...
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What deters developers from using automated refactoring tools?
I was having a discussion with my colleagues about using the automated refactoring tools in IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, Xcode, Visual Studio, etc) and was surprised that many of them were ...
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Looking for info on how to write plugin for Eclipse
Does anyone have any experience with writing plugin for Eclipse? First of all, can I write in in Java?
I want to write a plugin that would minify javascript and css on every git commit. I have the ...
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using svn and mercurial in eclipse for same project
Is it possible to have in eclipse 2 "team providers" for same project. E.g. svn and mercurial?
So svn will be used to commit to central repository, and mercurial only to work on my PC.
E.g. when I ...
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Using NetBeans and Eclipse together
I'm working on a collaborative group project at university which involves writing a Swing application, an Android application and some Java data models and a JDBC connection.
We've been taught to use ...
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Is possible install Eclipse IDE in Honeycomb?
Since Eclipse IDE can run in Linux and the new Honeycomb has a Linux Kernel, can Eclipse IDE run in Android Honeycomb ?
I know that isn't pretty much comfortable coding in a tablet, but I'd want to ...
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New vs Clone Git in Eclipse with EGit
I'm not sure I have either my new repo or clone repo workflow, or both, setup correctly. When I create a new project I create a repo on github, can't clone from it as it's empty so I create a new ...
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Advantages of Scala vs. Groovy with JAVA EE 6 Applications
Please let me first emphasize that I am not looking for flame wars. I just want advice from people who have real experiences.
I started learning JAVA EE 6 as real newbie and am having a difficult ...
