Eclipse 101

Quick Access to Eclipse IDE Features

6 April 2016

As Lars points out on the ide-dev mailing list, a lot of Eclipse IDE users aren’t aware of some very...

24 March 2016

The Eclipse Marketplace is a pretty cool bit of software. It provides a great place for organizations and individuals to...

7 December 2015

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen...

24 November 2015

Here’s a Eclipse command that’s pretty handy: Select Enclosing Element (key binding: Shift+Alt+Up on Linux). Every time you hit the...

3 November 2015

I broke Marcel’s language parser yesterday with what turns out to be an oddly-worded tweet. Use the “Projects into Workspace”...

23 October 2015

I’ve had few people ask me about this error recently. So far, everybody who’s asked is using a Mac running...

20 October 2015

The XML Editor is included in several of the Eclipse IDE downloads. It has two view modes: in design mode...

18 October 2015

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen...

25 September 2015

Yesterday we were reminded that it is difficult to provide good activity metrics. Certainly Git commit statistics are a good...

10 August 2015

For a very long time, I’ve wanted to completely rewrite our documentation for projects and committers. I finally gave it...