Category Archives: Java

Running Eclipse Neon on a Custom Java 9 Image

Posted on December 7, 2015 by waynebeaton

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Java 9 Module Relationships

Posted on December 1, 2015 by waynebeaton

As I stated in an earlier post, I’ve been running Eclipse Neon on the Java 9 + Jigsaw builds for a little while and haven’t had any issues. I spent a few hours over the weekend tinkering with some modularity … Continue reading →

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Eclipse IDE on JDK 9 Early Access with Project Jigsaw

Posted on November 16, 2015 by waynebeaton

The Eclipse IDE just works on JDK 9 Jigsaw builds. Continue reading →

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Eclipse Java™ 9 Support (BETA) for Neon

Posted on October 18, 2015 by waynebeaton

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java … Continue reading →

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Project Activity Metrics, Charts, and Stuff

Posted on September 25, 2015 by waynebeaton

Yesterday we were reminded that it is difficult to provide good activity metrics. Certainly Git commit statistics are a good means of indicating that there is activity, but different styles of development can leave very different impressions: a lot of … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: Java 9 Beta

Posted on June 29, 2015 by waynebeaton

Java™ 9 support has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But you can add an early access preview to your existing Eclipse Mars install. The Eclipse Java™ 9 Support (BETA) contains the following: ability to add JRE and … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: New Java Quick Fixes

Posted on June 15, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Great Fix Winners, Round Three

Posted on May 7, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Screenshot of the Week: Git Repositories View

Posted on April 22, 2015 by waynebeaton

The Git Repositories view (which I tend to add to whatever perspective I’m working in) provides pretty much one-stop-shopping for most of my repository activity needs. In this screenshot, you can see a handful of local branches that I obviously … Continue reading →

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Screenshot of the Week: Gradle Tools

Posted on April 5, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 is … Continue reading →

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