Wayne Beaton's blog

I use web tools for all my XML editing needs (which, frankly, are many). One feature that I really love is the way that code complete works based on the current contents of the document. If I’ve embedded a element inside a element, the next time I’m in...

When you delete a file in Eclipse, it is deleted from the CVS repository when you commit the change (by committing the folder). But CVS doesn’t destroy the file, it puts it in the ‘attic’. If you ever need to get that file back, you can. From the context menu...

I decided to update the screen cam that demonstrates how to download and install Eclipse (I made the old one before the Eclipse 3.2 release). The new version replaces the old version, so the old link still works. I’ve decided to tinker with the screen size a little with this...

I was never happy with how tightly coupled my image viewer is to the resources API. It seems to me that an image viewer is a pretty handy, general-purpose thing. The initial implementation can display images contained in files. But images come from other places. Items in an auction have...

As a general rule, I don’t like to have too much Java code in Java ServerPages (JSP) files. In fact, I’d prefer to have no Java code at all in a JSP. I have two basic reasons (and a collection of less basic reasons)… First, Java code in a JSP...

One of the things I really enjoy about traveling in Europe is the train system. They have a vibrant train system; something that we’re missing in North America. This week, I’ve been in Europe, attending both ECOOP and Java Forum Stuttgart. Unfortunately, the “Eclipse Bistro” I assembled for ECOOP didn’t...

Bjorn mentioned the Yoxos “ Eclipse on Demand” service in his blog a few days ago. The good people at Innoopract are proud of this service. For good reason. Today, I decided that I wanted a PHP development environment. I went to the “Eclipse on Demand” site. Here’s what it...

One of the things that I implemented with the Sudoku game was a disconnect between the model and the view. I provided a representation of a Sudoku game that knows nothing of user interface. It knows about cells and boxes and numbers; it also knows if any given cell is...

So far there have been 31,755 downloads of the Eclipse SDK 3.2 and 3,066 downloads of the Platform Runtime Binaries. This seems like a lot to me considering that it is the first weekend in July (first officialish weekend of summer in the northern hemisphere) and the start of a...

The Callisto projects are now replicated to a handful of mirrors and are ready for download. Click here to start the Callisto experience. For more excitement… see the video of Denis bringing the Callisto release to life.