Readings on Eclipse Programming []

Moved to the page http://3rdstage.wikia.com/wiki/On_Eclipse in my wiki as of 16th Aug. 2012.

Overall

Help Center

• Eclipse Helios (3.6) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Galileo (3.5) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Europa (3.3) HTML Help Center

Development Conventions and Guidelines

• Naming Conventions
• Coding Conventions
• User Interface Guidelines
• Doc Style Guide
• Version Numbering Guidelines

Tutorials & Articles

• Eclipse resources at eclipse.org

• How do I save Eclipse launch profiles across workspaces?
• Creating and Sharing Launch Configurations
• SSH Access through Eclipse RSE

Platform & RCP

API

• Eclipse Platform 3.6 API Specification
• Eclipse Platform 3.6 Extension Points Reference

Tutorials & Articles

• JFace Data Binding - Tutorial
• Eclipse RCP Tutorial by Lars Vogel

EMF

API

• EMF 2.6 API Specification

Tutorials & Articles

• Eclipse Modeling Framework(EMF) Tutorial by Lars Vogel
• openArchitectureWare User Guide
  contains EMF tutorial, Xtext tutorial, samples and so on.
• EMF Tutorial on Robowiki

GEF

Tutorials & Articles

• Eclipse Zest Tutorial by Lars Vogel

Equinox

Tutorials & Articles

• Equinox/p2/Installer

Mylyn

Tutorials & Articles

• Generic Web Templates Connector

Tips on Eclipse []

Moved to the page http://3rdstage.wikia.com/wiki/On_Eclipse in my wiki as of 16th Aug. 2012.

Configuration

Eclipse runtime options

If you want to know what can you do with eclipse.ini file, refer the followings.

• Runtime options for Eclipse 3.5
• Runtime options for Eclipse 3.7

Task Tags for Java Souce and XML File on Eclipse 3.3

For eclipse 3.3 "Task Tags" for java source file are enabled by default with 3 basic tags (TODO, FIXME, XXX) but task tags for XML file are not enabled. To enable task tags for XML file, change the settings on [Windows > Preference > Web and XML > Task Tags] menu.

Optimization

Optimizing eclipse.ini

You can find interesting wrtings on eclipse.ini to increase the performance of Eclipse at the following page.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-eclipse-34-jvm-settings#144349

Troubleshooting

Eclipse doesn't start-up.

• "The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes." at .metadata/.log

Remarkable Eclipse Plugins []

Moved to the page http://3rdstage.wikia.com/wiki/On_Eclipse in my wiki as of 16th Aug. 2012.

Plug-in	Site	Description
SpringSource Tool Suite	http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts	Spring framework development tools
Hibernate Tools for Eclipse and Ant	http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/tools.html	Hibernate development tools
AJDT	http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/	AspectJ development tools
TestNG Eclipse plug-in	http://testng.org/doc/eclipse.html	TestNG development tools
Google Plugin for Eclipse	http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/eclipse.html	development tools for GWT and Google App Engine
Vex	http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/vex/click	visual editor for XML
Mylyn WikiText	http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/WikiText	tools for parsing, editing and presenting lightweight markup
m2eclipse	http://eclipse.org/m2e/	Maven plug-in
Subclipse	http://subclipse.tigris.org/	Subversion client
DBViewer Plugin	http://www.ne.jp/asahi/zigen/home/plugin/dbviewer/	General database client
jOra	http://jora.luenasoft.de/	Oracle database client
JadClipse	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jadclipse/	Java decompiler
LogViewer	http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/logviewer/	File viewer
Properties Editor	http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/index_en.html	File editor
JDepend4Eclipse	http://andrei.gmxhome.de/jdepend4eclipse/	Code analysis
Regex Util	http://myregexp.com/eclipsePlugin.html	testing/editing regular expressions flavor of the Sun Java standard API (java.util.regex)
Eclipse Hex Editor Plugin (EHEP)	http://ehep.sourceforge.net/	File editor allows user to view or modify any file in hex mode.
Eclipse launcher for VisualVM	http://visualvm.java.net/eclipse-launcher.html	monitoring and profiling Eclipse projects using VisualVM
Wicked Shell	http://www.wickedshell.net/	an Eclipse plugin providing direct access to your system's shell.
cppcheclipse	https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/cppcheclipse/	an Eclipse plugin which integrates cppcheck (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcheck/) with the CDT project

jOra

• Oracle Database Client

This program provides not only typical components for application programmer such as schema browser, SQL editor and executor but also some components for DBA such as session viewer and parameter viewer.
This program is for only Oracle database and so provides Oracle friendly components, stored procedure editor and PL/SQL editor.

Components are :

• Connections View
• Database Explorer
• Schema Browser
• SQL Worksheet
• SQL Script Editor
• SQL History
• SQL Monitor
• DMBS Output-View
• Stored Procedure Editor
• PL/SQL Editor
• Outline View
• Sessions View
• Parameters View

You can find more detailed features in this page. but it is in German.

M2Eclipse

As of me, the previous plugin M2Eclipse(http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/) by Sonatype is still better than the current m2e(http://eclipse.org/m2e/) by Eclipse.

To get the last M2Eclipse by Sonatype, access the following update sites.

• Maven Integration for Eclipse Update Site : http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e/
• Maven Integration for Eclipse Extras Update Site : http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras/

Useful Shortcuts of Eclipse []

Moved to the page http://3rdstage.wikia.com/wiki/On_Eclipse in my wiki as of 16th Aug. 2012.

Binding	Command	When	Description
F5	Refresh	In Windows	Refresh the selected items
Ctrl + Space	Content Assist	In Dialogs and Windows	Popup to provide contextual proposals
Ctrl + I	Indent Line	Editing Java Source	Adjust indentations of lines in selected block
Ctrl + L	Go to Line	Editing Text	Go to a specified line of text
Ctrl + G	Declaration in Workspace	Editing in Structured Text Editors	Search for declarations of the selected element in the workspace
Ctrl + /	Toggle Comment	Editing SQL, Editing Properties Files, Editing JavaScript Source, Editing Java Source	Toggle comment the selected lines
Ctrl + Shift + F	Format	Editing in Structured Text Editors	Format selection
Ctrl + Shift + G	References in Workspace	In Windows	Search for references to the selected element in the workspace
Ctrl + Shift + M	Add Import	Editing Java Source	Create import statement on selection
Ctrl + Shift + R	Open Resource	In Windows	Open an editor on a particular resource
Alt + Shift + J	Add Javadoc Comment	In Windows	Add a Javadoc comment stub to the member element
Alt + Left	Backward History	In Windows	Activate previous resource in editor history.
Alt + Right	Forward History	In Windows	Activate next resource in editor history.

More readings

• 10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know