Extras for Eclipse: Neon Update
A change in Eclipse Neon made it necessary to update Extras for Eclipse. Unfortunately, the Toggle Full Screen command uses the same key binding, Alt+F11, as the Launch Dialog (see this bug for the details). Hence the key binding for the Launch Dialog had to be changed to Shift+F11. We…
Terminate and Relaunch in Eclipse
A few days ago a new feature was committed to the Eclipse repository: Terminate and Relaunch. When enabled, Eclipse will terminate all currently running processes of a launch configuration before relaunching it. This feature is particularly useful if the process to launch holds a unique system resource. For example, a…
Announcing Extras for Eclipse
Over the last months, I wrote some extensions for the Eclipse IDE that I found were missing and could be implemented with reasonable effort. The outcome is Extras for Eclipse, a collection of small extensions for the Eclipse IDE, which include a launch dialog, a JUnit status bar, a launch…
Service Update for the Clean Sheet Eclipse IDE Look and Feel
Roughly two weeks ago, I published an introduction to the Clean Sheet Eclipse IDE look and feel, an ergonomic theme extension for Windows 10. Happily, the feature got a surprisingly good reception considering its early development stage. Thanks to the participation of dedicated early bird users, we were able to…
Clean Sheet – an Ergonomic Eclipse Theme for Windows 10 and Mac OS X
Clean Sheet is an ergonomic Eclipse theme for Windows 10 and OS X (see update info 2016/03/21). It has been attuned to lessen visual fatigue and eyestrain, based on a clean and low glare look and feel. It incorporates well-balanced color selections that offer harmonic syntax highlighting and focus on…
Using the AutoValue Code Generator in Eclipse
My colleague Moritz of EclipseSource recently came across Google Auto, a collection of Java code generators. AutoValue is one of them and generates Java code for immutable objects. It provides an annotation and an annotation processor to generate Java code for immutable value objects. The current version is labelled RC1…
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…
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…
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…