Mars

Create your Project Import Set up at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon

Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 23:40 by Wayne Beaton
Eclipse Mars has this great new feature that you may have missed: the Oomph Project Importer will configure your Eclipse workspace with everything you need to hit the ground running quickly. You can open this by selecting the Projects into Workspace importer via the File > Import… menu. The importer...

Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: New Java Quick Fixes

Monday, June 15, 2015 - 15:21 by Wayne Beaton
Eclipse Mars includes new Quick Assists (Ctrl+1) for Java developers. Add and remove the parentheses around lambda parameter: Explicitly add the inferred types of the parameters in a lambda expression: Convert from method reference to lambda expression: Or from lambda expression to method reference: The full set of Eclipse Project...

Screenshot of the Week: Missing JRE

Monday, May 25, 2015 - 11:29 by Wayne Beaton
One of the more frustrating things about Eclipse–at least for some users–is that Eclipse doesn’t come with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Eclipse is itself a Java application, it needs a JRE to run. The intellectual property rules at Eclipse prevent us from including a JRE with the downloads...