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RJ Lorimer heads up the EclipseZone community as editor. He has been a long-time Javalobby.org members and is an avid Eclipse users.

RJ Lorimer"Stop What You're Doing - I'm Going on Vacation"

A couple of weekends ago I had the pleasure of going on a wonderful vacation: taking in the beautiful sites and weather, getting away from it all, and to top it all off, getting engaged. As anyone will tell you, taking a break from the usual and mundane to go on a vacation always sharpens your focus; combining that with such a momentous occasion has really given me a great refreshed perspective now that I'm coming back into the wired-in-world. As is always the case, however, the world kept on spinning while I was gone, and seems to have been spinning even faster since I got back.

The Phoenix Rises Again

Building a website for a product that is meant to be 'everything and nothing at all' is a surprisingly difficult task when you get into the nitty gritty details. As the Eclipse foundation continues to grow, and the diversity of what Eclipse can do expands, the home on the web for Eclipse continues to need re-thinking. This hasn't discouraged the Eclipse webmasters however, who are attacking the problem with renewed fervor with the new Eclipse homepage beta. They are very interested in community feedback, so be sure to check it out.

Walking on Broken Glass

(Sorry for cheesy Annie Lennox title reference) Big in the Java universe this week is the state of Java GUIs on Vista. This was covered recently on Javalobby: Java applications on both sides of the GUI toolkit fence (Swing and SWT) are causing recent builds of Windows Vista to completely shut off the next-generation aero-glass composition rendering (the transparency effects and all those goodies). Ray Cromwell provides an excellent post over on Javalobby that covers the technical reasons why this happens, but long story short, it's intentionally being shut off by Windows Vista simply because of the way that Java window toolkits are drawing to the screen.

Dmitri Trembovetski has explained the current state of affairs for Java 2D/Swing, clarifying that Java 6 plays nicely with Vista, allaying the fears of many Java developers - but keep in mind this isn't only a Swing problem; as I posted here, the problem was reproduced with Eclipse and Azureus which are both SWT applications. The SWT developers are working on Vista integration as we speak (as tracked by Bug 154116), so it's likely we'll have a solution long before Vista releases to consumers (sometime in January), although we aren't expecting another final SWT release until next Summer - so it will probably be in the form of a milestone release (with a potential backport to 3.2).

Santa Clara, Here We Come

While it seems like EclipseCon just ended not all that long ago, EclipseCon 2007 is right around the corner (March 5th - March 8th), and the call for participation has gone out. As with everything Eclipse, the participation is becoming more open and transparent to the community, with the current submissions being taken and voted upon through EclipseZilla (the Eclipse BugZilla system) - all of the instructions are available here.

While I don't know my current schedule, I hope to be able to see you in Santa Clara.

Until Next Time,
RJ Lorimer
rj@javalobby.org

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Nearly every day, RJ and others, bring you the hottest tips and tricks from around the Eclipse universe. Have a hot tip? E-mail the editors at editors@eclipsezone.com.
attach source to jar file for debugging

I am trying to debug my project using eclipse I have mypackage.jar file containing UI based project now i want to debug that project but here i cant attach my source to this jar file.

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: nil_kudale - (0 Replies)

Can't start Tomcat project in eclipse 3.2 (sysdeo tomcat plugin)

I have installed Sysdeo Tomcat-plugin (com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.1.0) on eclipse 3.2 and I have configured tomcat settings in Preferences in eclipse. I can start Tomcat from within eclipse. But when I try to create a Tomcat project, nothing happens when I click the 'Finish' button. What is the problem? Where do I see the errors if any? Pls help this is urgent. Thanks

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: s raghavan - (0 Replies)

Running Small Java Files

New user exploring Eclipse for a new position and trying to understand and operate the software properly.

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Kenneth Davis - (0 Replies)

SWT: custom drawing items in Tables and Trees

The ability to custom draw items in Tables and Trees was added to Eclipse 3.2, but until now has not been documented beyond a few example widgets. The article that gives the details involved in custom drawing TableItems and TreeItems is now ready and is posted at http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-CustomDrawingTableAndTreeItems/customDraw.htm .

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Grant Gayed - (0 Replies)

auto import completion not working in Eclipse 3.2?

no import auto completion in eclipse 3.2. Do I really need 100 characters for a brief summary here??

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Martin Dames - (0 Replies)

Qt/Eclipse configuration

Howto configure Eclipse with CDT C/C++ Plugin with Qt 4.1 libraries. I don't know compile the project and get binaries?

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Kasper - (0 Replies)

Replacing JARs on the Build Path

Replacing build-path JARs can be tedious when upgrading a dependency. Eclipse 3.2 can make the process a lot less painful.

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: R.J. Lorimer - (9 Replies)

Why can't generate parent interface methods in child interface?

Hi all, I have an interface called IChild that extends another interface IParent. I wonder why it is not possible to generate the methods of IParent in IChild automatically? Something similar for generating override methods or from in implemented interface within class is possible so it is strange for me this is not available within interfaces. -Thanks for your help

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Ach - (0 Replies)

Eclipse installation on Ubuntu 6.06 Breezy Badger

Synaptics package manager only refers to the 3.1.1 release. How does one install recent eclipse releases within Ubuntu if they are not available within the package manager?

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: shaun forgie - (0 Replies)

XY coordinates of a decorator

You define a polyline decorator using X-Y points. The orientation of the coordinate system is not obvious. This diagram provides an explanation of the coordinate system.

Read the full tip and discussion Posted By: Jeffrey Ricker - (0 Replies)

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Everyone has questions, especially about a platform such as Eclipse that has so much potential to be customized. EclipseZone comes to the rescue as our editors answer nearly any question you can think of in our Ask EZ forum.
Green bar code note "a"

I get green bar notes in my java code in the error/warning/note gutter on the right with tooltip text of simply "a" or "j". What do these notes mean?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Linus Kamb - (0 Replies)

Any way to launch a preference page at will?

I am looking for a way to launch my preference page when my plugin encounters a preference value which requires user input.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Richard Mitchell - (3 Replies)

Alternative Update-Sites

Is it possible to define an alternative update site for each feature inside an RCP application without changing the feature manifest?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Klaus Lehner - (2 Replies)

use spring.jar as plugin dependency and attach source code to it

added spring.jar to the Bundle-ClassPath in my MANIFEST.MF (the Editor lists this under Runtime|Classpath) how can I attach the spring source code?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Ralf Sigmund - (0 Replies)

How i create own Plugin

Hi Any body know how create a own plugin.Plz tell me as soon as possible With regards Murugan

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Murugan - (4 Replies)

Eclipse refactoring history problem

I'm trying to record moving a class file from one package to another. However, i cant see my action recorded in refactoring history.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: vedha v - (2 Replies)

Help plugin for infoCenter

When running a search for the InfoCenter it returns an entry keyword but not the correct href from the topic.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Jose R Padilla - (2 Replies)

How to question: making multi-page viewer.

I need an advice about how to make a multi-page table viewer in plugin. I need to open log files, each in a new table view.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Sergey - (0 Replies)

Formatting code the way I want to

I want to be able to have no gap around a + operator, but a gap around a && operator. The code formatter does not seem to support this.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Ricky Clarkson - (3 Replies)

Setting the priority of a 'Run' target

Is there a way to make a run target run at a different priority, so that my machine does not slow down?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Ricky Clarkson - (0 Replies)

syntax highlighting

Trying to create a promela editor with syntax highlighting. problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to highlight text in multiple cases.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Tariq - (2 Replies)

Making Eclipse choose the 'right' import

How can I make Eclipse favour a particular import over others, so that it presents it first in the list in the quick fix tooltip?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Ricky Clarkson - (6 Replies)

Web App Libraries

Web App Libraries is empty in Java Build Path even though the WEB-INF/lib directory has the .jar files listed.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Diane Hemingway - (1 Replies)

Making Editor Dirty

How to make Editor * to come out whenever I set the dirty flag to true..... I did not set any propertySheet

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Seah Sherley - (2 Replies)

Single sign on to an RCP application (Eclipse 3.1 ) from a browser

need to be able to open the RCP application from a browser.Also it has to use login parameters of the browser application.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Minakshi - (0 Replies)

bootclasspath

I was trying to compile a Hello World J2ME .java file in Eclipse. The code imports java.microedition...

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Michael Wasson - (1 Replies)

Getting ugly green "Readme Trim..." rectangle in status bar

I am getting ugly green "Readme Trim..." rectangle in status bar with Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto). How do I get rid of it?

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: Lubos Pochman - (1 Replies)

Ecplipse RCP plugin

I am developing an Eclipse RCP-Plugin. I have added a button in toolbar for this plugin. But i don't know how to activate the plugin on clickin button

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: amd - (1 Replies)

why are some plugins expanded and other not?

why are some plugins expanded and other notwhy are some plugins expanded and other notwhy are some plugins expanded and other not

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: pwb - (2 Replies)

How to import key bindings?

I have used Eclipse 3.1 for 1 years,and changed some default key bindings. Avoid reajusting these key bindings, I must save it and import it.

Read the full question & Discussion Posted By: lifesting - (1 Replies)

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A recap of some of the most popular and active EclipseZone discussions this week.
Cancelling editor restore when user logged in doesn't have permission

Hi all,

I need to prevent editors from restoring when next user logged in doesn't
have access to those restored editors.

For instance when the first user close my Eclipse application without
closing all the editors first and then...

Full Discussion Posted By: Setya - (15 Replies)

Error executing JSP page from Eclipse 3.2 WTP

Hello,
I have installed Eclipse by downloading and extracting the file:
wtp-all-in-one-sdk-R-1.5.0-200606281455-win32.zip
on my PC.
I am using JDK 1.5 as a JVM.
After that I have created a Sample Project containing a very simple
i...

Full Discussion Posted By: Sameer Shinde - (11 Replies)

Platform is always null! Please help!!!

Let me start by apologizing first as I know this has already been
addressed before
(http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.birt/msg12783). However,...

Full Discussion Posted By: Javed Mortuza - (11 Replies)

Eos - Eclipse on Swing keeps a promise: Win, Linux, Mac, Solaris, ....

Eclipse on Swing seemed another loonatic joke project to keep geeks busy. However after two month I have to admit the results are crazy.

Full Discussion Posted By: billygnosis - (10 Replies)

Call for Participation: EclipseCon 2007

In preparation for EclipseCon 2007 the Eclipse foundation has put together a community driven Eclipsezilla system to participate in deciding what will be at EclipseCon next year. Register, login, give it a look.

Full Discussion Posted By: Riyad Kalla - (6 Replies)

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