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Cliff Liang has translated the Eclipse Corner Article “ A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. We need somebody to review the translation. If you’re interested, please add your comments to bug # 138106.

I’ve added an RSS feed for articles to the Eclipse Corner website. You can access the feed here. It contains the title, description, and a link to articles changed in the last six months. Add your comments to Bug#: 137751 if you’d like to change anything about it. For example...

Cleaning up your code gets easier with Eclipse 3.2. Select a Java element. Any element. It works on classes, packages, and projects (intuitively, the element selected determines the scope of the clean up). Select “Source > Clean Up…” from the context menu. Here’s what you’ll see. You’re presented with a...

I’m surprised by the number of folks who don’t realize that you can use Eclipse to build Swing-based applications. There’s no rule that says that you can only use Eclipse to build Eclipse plug-ins or RCP applications. There’s no rules governing the kinds of applications you can build with Eclipse...

I’ve noticed in the last 1-2 months companies and open source projects marketing tools for building Eclipse RCP applications. For example, Instantiations announced their RCP Developer product at EclipseCon and have a free trial download. Don Young from InPowerSoft has posted a very detailed article at EclipseZone about their InPowerForms...

Earlier today, in a blog entry titled “ Show Source of Selected Element Only“, author R.J. Lorimer described the “Show source of selected element only” feature. Frankly, it’s a pretty cool feature and I think that R.J. did a bang up job of describing it. However, he missed one important...

In this new Eclipse Corner article, “ Eclipse Workbench: Using the Selection Service“, author Marc R. Hoffmann describes (oddly enough) the selection service provided by the Eclipse workbench, how it is used by Eclipse and how you can use it in your own plug-ins and RCP applications. I used Marc’s...

One of the big problems with maintaining any repository of information is that the information can get out of date. You can help. All Eclipse Corner articles are in a CVS repository (dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/org.eclipse). You can hook up to this repository to gain access to the articles (www/articles). Changes to articles...

Callisto itself is pretty cool. Coordinating the release of ten separate Eclipse projects is no small undertaking and the project teams are doing a great job of it. But what’s cool about Callisto for you? I have my own ideas. Many, many ideas. Too many in fact. I’m curious to...

It is possible (and recommended, in fact) that you develop your RCP application from a target that’s separate from your development environment. By default, when you build plug-ins using Eclipse, you develop against the set of plug-ins that are installed in your development environment. However, using the PDE preferences page...