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Custom about dialogs in Eclipse applications

Hi, I have an Eclipse workbench application composed of many plugins. I'd like to set the about text of the app to reflect the build number. There seems to be a couple of places to do this: - Inside the application's .product file (setting text here doesn't seem to do anything?) - Inside the plugin.xml file of the main plugin (thi...

Excluding/Disabling Validation in Eclipse

I have the (mis)fortune of having a large project source-base in which I am working primarily on PHP and JavaScript. I have to have the full project area as the project root in Eclipse, but unfortunately this includes several directories that drive the validation built into WST/DLTK/etc. nuts. I have tried disabling all validators in th...

OutOfMemory in Eclipse in a Launched process

I have an OutOfMemory (heap size) in eclipse using a third party plugin The plug in is Adobe Livecycle work bench and during the out of memory the plugin is retrieving via WS (using Axis) a list of around 70 workflow components on my server Here is a extract of my call stack in Eclipse ... at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Mai...

Using the Selection service on something that is *not* a JFace view

I am building an image Editor as an Eclipse plugin. I would like to use the Properties view to view & edit properties of the model underneath the image. Accordingly I am calling .. getSite().setSelectionProvider( this ); .. within createPartControl, and implementing the ISelectionProvider interface in my EditorPart implementation, s...

Weblogic slow with Eclipse breakpoints

Sometimes when I use Eclipse with breakpoints set, the performance of my Weblogic is very slow. Any ideas? The performance is slow in general - it isn't only slow when breakpoints are hit. I'm debugging with a Weblogic on my local machine. When I disable all breakpoints everything instantly speeds up. I don't always have this prob...

Tutorial regarding the development of a custom Eclipse editor

I wish to learn about developing an editor for Eclipse for a particular programming language. Is there a tutorial available to help me with this? It would be beneficial if it covered such topics as syntax highlighting and auto-completion. ...

How to properly manage Tomcat web apps inside Eclipse?

I used to run Tomcat separately on my machine. I had an Ant script that would rebuild my project, deploy it locally, and restart Tomcat. That all worked ok, but I wasn't able to debug the web app inside Eclipse. So I learned how to setup Tomcat inside Eclipse and got my web app running. Now the problem is that I don't understand fu...

Eclipse Web Tools Platform(WTP) vs Netbeans - IDE for Java Web Development

When going to Java Web Develpment such as JSP, JSPX & others. What IDE do you consider Eclipse or Netbeans? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Which is better preferred in-terms of developing Web Applications such as Websites, Web Services and more. I am considering Netbeans because it has already bundled some features that w...

How to create separate library for include in C++/Eclipse

I've gotten some C++ code to work with the TinyXML parser. However, to do this I had to include the source code from TinyXML with my regular source code. I'd like to have TinyXML included as a separate library. I'm using Eclipse with the Cygwin C++ compiler. What's a good way to do this? ...

How to run eclipse without running JRE install?

I wish to run eclipse for C++ on Vista but I absolutely do not want to run the JRE install. Is there any place where I can get a JRE in a zip that I can just dump in the eclipse folder and have it work? ...

What are the good static code analysis plugins?

Are there any automated code review tools for Java? Especially plugins for Eclipse? The tool I expect is an automated code review plugin or tool that can automatically detect the problems in Code. ( Microsoft does this using OACR ).Plugins like Jupiter won't help because they are just peer review tools for eclipse. ...

API to edit web.xml from Eclipse plugin?

What is the easiest way to edit web.xml from an Eclipse plugin? (I'm looking for an API -- as opposed to using a PrintWriter etc.) ...

Use external Bundle-Localization path in MANIFEST file

The MANIFEST.MF file contains an entry to define which *.properties files are loaded at runtime. These entry defined name and the corresponding properties file is used to translate the plugin strings which start with the prefix "%", like "%plugin.name" Bundle-Localization: plugin plugin.properties than contains a line like %plugin.na...

Boost linkage error in Eclipse

I've been banging my head fruitlessly against the wall attempting to include boost's thread functionality in my Eclipse C++ project on Ubuntu. Steps so far: Download boost from boost.org ./configure --with-libraries=system,thread make sudo make install sudo ldconfig -v In the eclipse project, set the include directory to: /usr/loc...

How to get an Eclipse-like class outline in VS 2008/C#?

I've just recently started using VS2008 for a new tools project, and have been spending a lot of time in Eclipse/Java. The one thing I am missing is the thing I could have sworn was in VS2005 the last time I worked with it - the class outline. I'm speaking of the basic outline in Eclipse, where you can see the class members, methods, et...

How do you build a simple Eclipse editor with a select set of plugins?

Does anyone have a tutorial for building a custom Eclipse IDE with only a select set of plugins? I am assuming I would need: eclipse.exe some plugins from the plugins directory, some folders from the features directory. My goal is to only include the basic text editor and maybe a couple of other utilities. (Yes, I could just use notep...

How to prevent Eclipse from showing the opened file in package explorer

Hi, somehow I've ended up in a situation such that when I navigate through source files with Eclipse, the Eclipse always selects (and expands) the opened file with package explorer. With this I end up losing my location on Package Explorer Having my Package explorer expanded and pretty confusing. With brief googling/exploring on th...

I/O redirection in eclipse?

Hi, Is it possible to use IO redirection in eclipse? I want to redirect standard input/output on the command line like java MyProgram <input.txt >output.txt, but I can't seem to get it to work in eclipse. I tried including the <'s as part of the program arguments, which was ignored, and also in the VM arguments, which just threw up a cl...

How do I restart the Google App Engine Java Server in Eclipse?

OK, maybe I'm dumb/blind, but in the docs it says "rebuild and restart the server." But I don't see a button to do this anywhere. Or from any contextual menu. And I can't find anything in their docs explaining how to do it. If I just try to start the app again, it gets angry because I already have App Engine running on the needed port. ...

Modify/view static variables while debugging in Eclipse

As per the question. In the debug view, there's the Variables frame. It shows all the values of member variables of the current object, and all of the local variables, but it doesn't show any static variables of the object's class. How do I get to these? Some googling has suggested I press the button on the toolbar, but there's nothing...