Java

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...

Great Fix Winners, Round Three

Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 15:57 by Wayne Beaton
My apologies for being late with this announcement. We have four winners in this third and final round of the Great Fixes for Mars Skills Competition. In no particular order, I present the winners… Tony McCrary contributed dozens (maybe hundreds) of new icons to multiple projects. The impact of these...

Screenshot of the Week: Gradle Tools

Sunday, April 5, 2015 - 22:47 by Wayne Beaton
We’re pushing hard to make sure that great tools for Gradle are included with the Eclipse Mars release. The following screenshot shows my workspace after importing the Gradle Tooling API using Buildship Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle. The Buildship project provides tools for Gradle in Eclipse. The Buildship project is producing...

Great Fix Winners, Round Two

Sunday, April 5, 2015 - 22:06 by Wayne Beaton
Sorry, I’m a little bit late with this announcement. We have three more winners in the Great Fixes for Mars Skills Competition . In no particular order: Snjezana Peco contributed a couple of Great Fixes, but I’ll focus on the patch provided for Bug 446075 : Garbled bold text when...

Toggle Line Numbers in Eclipse

Monday, March 30, 2015 - 17:46 by Wayne Beaton
I’ll admit that I’m dumbfounded by how much people care about whether line numbers are on or off by default in Eclipse. Put the cursor into the gutter area to the left of the editor and right-click to bring up the context menu, select “Toggle Line Numbers” to change the...

Great Fixes for Mars Winners Part I

Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 21:33 by Wayne Beaton
A Great Fix is a contribution provides a significant improvement in the Java development experience using Eclipse. Special consideration will be given to performance or stability improvements, and patches that improve the user experience. To qualify, a fix needs to be merged into the project repository by a committer. For...

Nested/Hierarchical view of projects

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 16:31 by Wayne Beaton
From the Eclipse 4.5M5 New and Noteworthy documentation: The Project Explorer now provides the ability to view the projects in a hierarchical (a.k.a. nested) form. For modular projects, this allows to have your Project Explorer mapping more closely the organization of your modules as they are on the file system...

A Vision of the Future of the Software Developer’s Platform

Friday, February 20, 2015 - 11:17 by Wayne Beaton
How will the developer’s platform change over the next three years? Will you still be using desktop-based development tools? Cloud-based software development options are getting more powerful, but will they completely replace the desktop? For a certain set of developers, cloud-based software development tools will be a natural fit and...