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Working Efficiently with JUnit in Eclipse
Recently I was dragged into a discussion1 with some test infected2 fellows about how we use JUnit within the Eclipse IDE. Surprisingly the conversation brought up some ‘tips and tricks’ not everybody was aware of. This gave me the idea to write this post doing a sum up of our talk. Who knows – maybe [...]
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A Simple way to extend SWTBot
SWTBot is an Eclipse project that enables you to write functional tests for SWT and Workbench based applications in Java. It has API to remote control the application under test and matcher to find widgets and examine their state. For each widget there is a corresponding bot class with methods to control the widget. To [...]
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Running HTTP/REST Integration Tests efficiently in Eclipse
Lately I had a chance to use the OSGi-JAX-RS-Connector library written by my dear fellow Holger Staudacher. The connector enables you to publish resources easily by registering @Path annotated types as OSGi services – which actually works quite nicely. While it is natural for me to write the service classes test driven using plain JUnit [...]
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RAP: Adapt Your Style
I really like the new RAP default theme introduced with the RAP 1.5 Release (see New and Noteworthy). It looks much more sophisticated and refined thus making RAP applications look ‘desgned for the web’, rather than ‘ported to the web’ as before. However, while working on my last customer project, I was looking for a [...]
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How do you import static in Eclipse?
Long story short, I just discovered that Ctrl+Shift+M (Source > Add Import) can not only be used to add missing imports. It can also help with static imports. Executed on a reference to a qualified member (read Class.member), the refactoring will add a static import for the defining class and remove the class-dot expression. For [...]
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Eclipse Archive Utilities
A little while ago I started a side project to support working with (zip) archive files in the Eclipse IDE. Initially it was more meant to revive my plug-in development knowledge and play around with some technologies like Tycho or SWTBot. But in the end, I though it might be useful enough to share. The [...]
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Code Centric Trainings with the Samples Manager
I recently gave a training course on – you guess it – RAP/RWT. And as it seems natural for a training targeted at developers it was very code centric and had many hands-on exercises. For hands-on exercises I find it useful to give a starting point so that tedious steps like setting up a project [...]
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EclipseCon Europe — RAP Talk On-Line
The last weeks were very exciting since I could talk about the new RAP OSGi integration feature (see I, II, III) on various occasions. It was amazing to see how the RAP community has evolved over the last years. While in the early days you always had to do the slot “What is RAP” and [...]
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Democamp Slides
For those who are interested I’ve uploaded the slides of my presentations at the eclipse democamps in bonn and munich. Thanks to Matthias, Jonas and Maximilian for organizing the events and giving me an opportunity to talk about the possibilties given with the new RWT OSGi integration bundle available in RAP.
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The RAP Tooling has Offspring
I would like to use the opportunity to point you to a feature of RAP that is around for some time now but has gone almost unnoticed so far. The RAP tooling has grown by yet another launch configuration. With the RWT Application Launcher you can run RWT applications with just one shortcut. If you [...]
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