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Curious to Know what Eclipse 'Show Heap Status' does

Hi All In Eclipse (I am using 3.4 Ganymede) there is an option under Preferences>General>Show Heap Status which when checked shows near bottom of IDE like 46M of 98M and if we move the mouse over 'Recycle Bin' it says 'Run Garbage Collector'. I am curoius to know how this works.What will happen when 'Run Garbage Collector' is clicke...

How do I get the resources of a working set?

I know that Eclipse working sets are very flexible and customizable. They are made of elements which implement IAdaptable Which can be anything. However, in many (most) cases, working sets are used to define a set of resources. In case these elements can be seen as resources (e.g. IJavaProject), is there a universal (or formal) way to p...

Where are Eclipse Bookmarks stored?

Does anyone know where bookmarks are stored in the Eclipse IDE? I had to delete a Java project from my workspace, then use the Import Existing project option to reset some configuration settings, and now my bookmarks are gone. I'm trying to understand how this affected my bookmarks, since everything on the file system except for the Ec...

How to start an android project with downloaded sample code

Hi, I'm pretty new to android, and just finished setup my environment and reading some tutorials. Then I got sdk samples from the web. Okay, what I wanna ask you is that is there a way to start a sample as a project in the Eclipse? I mean like clicking a project file in c# or a solution file. Here is my folder which I unzipped the code,...

Where are the downloaded jars in a Java Web Start Application?

I have an Eclipse application loaded using Web Start. I know that the Eclipse Plugins must be stored somewhere as jars. In which location are they stored when such an application is downloaded using Java Web Start? I am expecting the JAR files to be somewhere on the user directory, but I haven't been able to track them yet. Thanks! ...

Eclipse/CDT editor not picking up project-defined symbols in coloring ifdef'ed out sections

The problem I'm seeing is that under preferences, C/C++ Defined symbols for different Configurations/targets aren't showing up in the code coloring. When I change the active build configuration in the project menu, I would expect the editor & code coloring to pick up the symbols from the project settings, but it only seems to be pickin...

Java Breakpoint being ignored in MyEclipse 8.5 .... Using JRE 1.6.0.20 and Tomcat 5.5.25

I have scoured the web and stackoverflow and didnt find anything specific to 1.6.20 so I am wondering if I am the only one seeing this... I am building a JSP based on SUN JRE 1.6.0.20, Tomcat 5.5.25 and am using MyEclipse 8.5 . After running my Servlet a few times through the code/debug cycle, the IDE just starts ignoring all breakpoint...

Is there an Eclipse C# Highlight, Code Completion plugin

I need an Eclipse 3 plugin for C# syntax highlight and hopefully code completion. I am running both Mac and Windows versions of Eclipse. I have evaluated "Improve C#" but it seems to be not working. ...

AVDs that exist do not get listed in the "Target Tab"

I am using emulator Android 2.1 with Eclipse. For few days I had the emulator working ... was able to debug... I had 2 AVDs created and was using one of them. Earlier today I had to move my classes to a different package. Ever since I did that the configuration that I had has disappeared . So now I had to create configuration - I select ...

Compiler Errors...it ran yesterday!?

This is a pre-existing Java project being run in Eclipse 3.5.2 32 bit.. Day 1: Install Java SE 6 Update 20 JDK. Experience Crash in Eclipse. Install Java 5. Same problem-(uninstall java 5). Re-install Java 6. Install Eclipse 3.3.1. Install Eclipse 3.5.2. 32-bit. No problems. Run Eclipse 3.5.2. 64-bit. No problems. Set up the project, co...

How can I get the VM method signature of a method in Eclipse?

For adding instrumentation roots to a Profiler, I need to write the method signature. For example, in case of the method: String toString() The VM Method signature is ()Ljava/lang/String; Question is, is there any way to check such signatures in Eclipse if you have the source code? Is there any shortcut to see this? I want to che...

Building elf within Eclipse within Windows

Hey guys, I'm having trouble building an Elf file within Eclipse within Windows. It seems that everytime I build, a PE / portable executable for windows is created. I've gone into the Binary Parser section and checked Elf Parser while making sure that everything else is unchecked. However, I continue to end up with a PE which I cannot r...

IvyDE + WTP: How to workaround that ivy library is ignored by WTP?

I have found IvyDE which allows me to solve an outstanding problem of having a frozen core version of a web application, which needs to be able to pull in extra code from an update library so it is on the classpath of the web application. For development speed I've found that the "Resolve in Workspace" facility allows Eclipse to put the...

How to Setup Eclipse to Start Writing Web Services using Axis2

Dear Gurus I am a .net Developer but now a days i want to setup Eclipse to write a sample web services to test the capacity of Java/Axis over WCF/BasicHttpBindings. I found a couple of articles regarding the setup procedures but they are too old or their wording is may be for java or eclipse experts. Can anyone please give me detailed...

Is it impossible to embed Java3D in a way that I don't need to install it?

I'm running a big application and a small part of it includes Java 3D, the problem is many users need to use the code, but it isn't practical for everyone to install Java 3D just to run the application if they aren't even going to use that section of the application. Is it possible through compiling an extra jar, or changing some paths,...

Workbench application development using Eclipse RCP :: How rich can it get?

Like the subject reads: How much good-looking UIs can be built using Eclipse RCP? Can they be built to look as good as the app screen below? Or, lets just define good being: support for rounded borders, gradient backgrounds, rich text, true type fonts and all those stuff that applies to modern rich UI look and feels. ...

Create and bind a GUI from xsd file automatically in eclipse rcp app

I want to create GUI components from XSD files. The generated GUIs should be used for concrete xml instances of the corresponding schema with databinding to "interesting" elements or attributes content. I have considered these solutions: jaxfront. (commercial tool). This does not generate source code. This is important for me because I...

Disable AND Grey out an eclipse widget

I have a org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite that I want to be able to enable/disable programatically. The org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.setEnabled(boolean enabled) method works fine, but it does not give any visual information that the widget(s) are disabled. What I would like to do is to have the disabled state mean the widgets are gr...

searching files in eclipse

I want to search a file in eclipse. Whats the shorcut to open file serach dialog box? ...

cannot not find library files in eclipse cdt

properties/C/C++ Build/Settings GCC C++ Linker/Libraries Under libraries(-I) I have libbost_system libbost_filesystem ... and under Library search path(-L) I have /home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib but when I compile I get g++ -L/home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib/ -o"searchDirs" ./main.o -llibboost_system -llib...