Learn to use refactoring functionality and source code modifications and your work will be very efficient and you will produce high quality code.

When developing plug-in projects, you may occasionally get a message saying "The type X is not accessible due to restriction on required project Y". What does this mean, and where does it come from?

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.

I have made 2 projects in a folder called "C:\dan\tools\". One of them was made today and is visible in the package explorer.

I want to enter a relative path for the spellcheck dictionary but I'm not sure if its possible. For any input other than the absolute path, I receive an error message and the finish button is disabled.

How can I get the number of items which are shown in a TableViewer after I applied a ViewerFilter on it?

hi... when i try to use TPTP profiling on large projects it profiler simply never stops , i neve get any execution results, it may seems to related t

Can i convert org.eclipse.swt.events.FocusEvent to org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection type? Its urgent

Develop C++ Linux application using Eclipse on Windows. Eclipse to seemlessly perform its file saving, compiling, and debugging remotely on Linux.

Hi all. I have created a plugin project in Eclipse, with src,bin,icons,... folders. Now, I want to include my plugin in Eclipse

i have build a filter , the filter check the value of the report parameter, when some value is set the the report schould not display some elements

i have build a filter , the filter check the value of the report parameter, if some value is set the the report schould not display some elements

am trying to learn how to make a product with eclipse.So now im trying to convert it as a product.just to learn how it can be made as a product.

Hi, I'm creating chat messenger application that need to use text with multiple fonts I tried to use styledText but

I want to create an external tool for javap tool. But how can I build fine arguments for the tool. The argument doesn't include the file suffix.

I´ve identified the projects(IProject) in the workspace being used, and which of them have javanature, but now i need some way to make it IJavaProject

Hi all :D I want to create a new Image with the next code: shell.setImage(new Image(Display.getDefault(), "icons/sample.gif"));

I am having 4 views in a rcp application.when i close one view and reopens it i loose the old state of the view.

I am having 4 views in a rcp application.i have linked the views through selectionprovider-selection listener pattern.

Hi All. I want to create a new Eclipse editor to put in a table. This idea can be seen in the image.jpg file. Can someone help me? Thanks all :D

Eclipse cannnot resolve org.eclipse.jdt... Jar that contains package is in eclipse\plugins folder, how to make it visible for eclipse?

I've just recently started using Vista like it was meant to be, namely with an admin account and a user account that I use for daily work.

Can't see tooltips in package explorer Can't see tooltips in package explorer Can't see tooltips in package explorer

How do I attach a retargetable action with the Help->about menu? i.e when user clicks on the about menu, it should be routed to my action class

I would like to write the code which sets up bridges in equinox environment, starts micro broker etc. I already have the code to do that in WSDD.

I am getting null when I call getExtension(extension, providerID), where as if I enumerate available extension points I find the extension just fine.

I need help moving a polygon with a mouse in draw2d. I have tried using translate and setLocation but I seem to be stuck.

After installing the latest CDT update my Keybindings are corrupted. How can I restore them or set them to default?

The UI elements of Carbon will not be ported to 64-bit for Leopard, and the Mac OS programming model does not support mixing 64-bit and 32-bit calls. Is this bad news for SWT on Leopard?

Ian Skerrett announced yesterday the start of a rather interesting Europa-related contest. Basically, the deal is: write a review of a Europa project, get a T-Shirt. It's as simple as that.

IBM today announced the creation of jazz.net, an open portal for the review of the Jazz technology that was presented at this year's EclipseCon. How much of the Jazz codebase will open up remains to be seen, or whether that code will (like other previous IBM projects) migrate to Eclipse.org in the future.

We continue our look at Declarative Services with some examples of how to depend on services provided by other bundles.

Working sets are a poor man's way of supporting project groups in the Eclipse interface. The ability to create your own combinations allowed a large workspace to be partitioned into virtual smaller ones, reducing the clutter in a screen. However, it's nowhere to be seen in 3.3. Or is it?

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