Sun have just announced JavaFX, a 'mee too' competitor to Flex and Silverlight. Despite some documentation hinting that it requires NetBeans, there's an Eclipse plugin too.

View synchronizing is one of the fundamental features for most Eclipse workbench apps. When using a GEF editor, you can use additional views to provide more targeted information about the selection, or even allow editing. There is a lot of good information about this topic - both in the eclipse docs and in the newsgroups. However, I think I can augment that with a concise set of steps for getting this task done quickly.

It's possible to bring up Equinox from an existing Java application. This tip shows you how.

The OSGi spec only allows for a single bundle activator to be executed, but you can chain several together. This tip shows you how it's done, and how you can reuse code by configuration data in the manifest.

For a cross-platform language, Java does some silly things in using the local character set of the operating system. Unfortunately, Eclipse uses this default for writing source files of most kinds; fortunately, there's an easy way of configuring it to use UTF-8 by default.

Ever wanted to add logging or validation to an existing method that you don't have source to? You can easily introduce indirection in Eclipse, re-writing your calls to that method with your own method, and the add the logging to your method call.

Buried in the new-and-noteworthy is a line that simply says "Joining lines in text editors'. A new keystroke, Control+Alt+J, allows you to join lines together in much the same way that J would work in vi, or equivalent text editors.

Eclipse 3.3M6 allows you to generate equals methods either using the correct getClass() form, or now also an incorrect instanceof form. The choice is yours.

An oldie but a goodie -- you can create a selection with Ctrl+Shift+Arrows, and then use Control+Space to insert a multi-line template such as surrounding with try/catch or becoming the body of a while loop.

A recent question on Ask EZ about how to tail a file's output in Eclipse prompted me to answer; but in the spirit of sharing the idea with others, I'm posting the reply to the Tips and Tricks page.

Classnotfound Exception at runtime of junit tests. I have 2 projects, the main project with all the files and a project with my junits.

Classnotfound Exception at runtime of junit tests. I have 2 projects, the main project with all the files and a project with my junits.

hi from some reason comtent assist stop working in my machine i have 2 diffrent eclipses in my machine - it is not working in none of them, reistall

eclipse won't let me open an xml file as an ant file, cannot even run it as an ant build, only open it manually through launcher..

I'm using eclispe on Kubuntu which I installed from the repo. I've been successful in setting up VE and dependencies through the find and install but.

Hi, Friends, I am new to JAVA Technology, I have one doubt regards Interface and Abstract Class. I have some questions regards this

How do you get Eclipse to see automatically generated source? For example, java classes generated from an XML Schema using xjc.

Problem with pyAntTasks inEclipse 3.2. Error: Could not load from resourse pyAntTasks. It could not be found.

I have two bundles A and B exporting same package say x.y.z. Will it be possible for some bundle C which can import x.y.z , use classes from both A&B

My inherited project imported into eclipse won't run on my server. Error - " the selection did not contain anything that can be ru

Host Plugin - A Frament plugins to A - B, C, D Question: How to package A, B, C, D in to one single bundle/plugin A_1.xx.jar.

is it possible to set two SWT radio butons are in selected mode in a same group, if it is possibel plz help me how to do this. with regards, Jeno

how can I make a link from SWT screen to RCP screen, please help me, but my application is based on RCP

Eclipse Javadoc view/tooltip don't seem to handle iso8859-1 chars nicely, they appear as weird (UTF8?) chars. Text-file encoding is set to ISO-8859-1.

Hi, While in the Eclipse Java editor, if you use the quick fix to add an exception to your method it also adds a javadoc entry. I find this clut

I have add 4 radio buttons in one singel group in my SWT application, now I want to display two of them are selected in default, how can I do this , p

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Error updating Eclipse, getting Unable to remove "C:\[...]\plugins\org.apache.commons.codec_1.3.0.v20070227" from the file system.

Getting error message stating Must specify a URI scheme: We have creating a tool based on eclipse 3.2.2.Recently we have migrated to eclipse 3.3

I have to incorporate synchro scroll of the horizontal and vertical scrollbars of the two adjacently placed text widgets.

I would like to know when RAP will be available for general release. I tried the M3 release and find it good.

I want to launch an "external tool" (a python script) by pressing something like alt+shift+x, z How do i do this?

I want make a multi-page form editor but not in the editor area. The application I am working on has the editor area disabled

myEclipse vendors? Beside Genuitec, are there any other vendors for myEclipse? I know that Genuitec is the company that develops myEclipse. Thanks

Eclipse application with different components. Java non eclipse application is to call the standalone eclipse help but help plugins not found

I have officially come to the conclusion that tools are the curse of every development team. No, I really mean it (and yes, you are reading this on an Eclipse-oriented site).

An oldie but a goodie -- bug 35973 asks for nested projects in Eclipse. It's not going to be fixed in the 3.3 timeframe, but it's been reported no less than 15 times and currently has 58 votes. It's not clear if it will ever get fixed.

The results are in, and JSR291 (OSGi 4.1) has passed with a landslide. Unsurprisingly, the only naysayers are Sun and Hani (same as with last time) largely because they feel it's necessary to re-invent the wheel with JSR277. However, OSGi is here and works today; JSR277 is a pipe-dream, with nothing more than vague promises. Despite this, Sun have guaranteed that JSR277 will be in Java 7. Have both Sun and Hani lost the plot?

Visual Editor is a pretty significant project at Eclipse.org. Unfortunately, I have yet to see anything significant coming from the VE team since the release of 1.2. Is the VE project dead?

Should Eclipse be more open to end users by giving them a voice in the foundation along with the current members who are large and small companies, associate (academic and media) members and committers?

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