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The “Projects into Workspace” Import Wizard

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 06:36 by Wayne Beaton
I broke Marcel’s language parser yesterday with what turns out to be an oddly-worded tweet. Use the “Projects into Workspace” import wizard to build an environment to develop Eclipse Platform UI is as long as it takes to download. — Wayne Beaton (@waynebeaton) November 2, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It probably doesn’t...

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...

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...