Mars

It always comes as a surprise to people when I tell them that we at the Eclipse Foundation don’t consider anything that we distribute to be a product. It’s a surprise, because basically everybody in the world thinks that the Eclipse IDE is a product and has thought that way...

Here’s a Eclipse command that’s pretty handy: Select Enclosing Element (key binding: Shift+Alt+Up on Linux). Every time you hit the key combination, it expands the selection to the enclosing element. In this example, it starts with the method selector, and expands to include the parameters, the receiver, the statement, the...

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...

It’s easy to get caught thinking that Mylyn only provides access to traditional issue trackers like Bugzilla and Jira. It also features integration with Gerrit. This screenshot shows the Planning perspective being used to work directly with Gerrit reviews. Working with Gerrit in the Planning Perspective You can manipulate the...

The Customize Perspective dialog is back! Use this dialog to configure the visible menu, toolbar, action sets and shortcuts in your workbench. This functionality was broken in Eclipse 4.2, together with the the ability to reset the perspective.

With Eclipse Mars, the automatic updates option is turned on by default. With this, Eclipse will periodically check with our servers to see if there are any updates available and give users the option to download and install them. Use the “Automatic Updates” preferences page to further tune the update...

Develop, run, and test Apache Cordova applications for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile devices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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...

The Error Reporter orovides valuable information to project teams that might otherwise not be captured. The Error Reporter itself has morphed over time to provide a very slick user experience that stays out of your way, inconspicuously opening a tray notification in the lower right hand corner of the screen...

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...