Category Archives: Java

Great Fix Winners, Round Two

Posted on April 5, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Toggle Line Numbers in Eclipse

Posted on March 30, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Great Fixes for Mars Winners Part I

Posted on March 15, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Nested/Hierarchical view of projects

Posted on March 11, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 20, 2015 by waynebeaton

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 … Continue reading →

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Great Fixes for Mars

Posted on February 10, 2015 by waynebeaton

We’re launching the “Great Fixes for Mars” programme. As is suggested by the name, we’re looking for great fixes in the form of contributions to Eclipse open source projects. There will be prizes. A “Great Fix” is a contribution from … Continue reading →

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Add Java 8 support to Eclipse Kepler

Posted on March 26, 2014 by waynebeaton

Edit: I recommend that you just update to the Luna release. While we’re pretty sure that this still works, it’s not a configuration that we test anymore. Want to add Java 8 support to Kepler? Java 8 has not yet … Continue reading →

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Official Eclipse Support for Java™ 8

Posted on March 18, 2014 by waynebeaton

Dani Megert, the project lead for the Java development tools (JDT) project made this announcement earlier today: The Eclipse top-level project is very proud to announce official support for Java™ 8. Starting with I20140318-0830 all Luna (4.4) builds contain the … Continue reading →

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Playing with Java 8 Lambdas in the JDT

Posted on February 14, 2014 by waynebeaton

I’ve been playing with the language a bit while tinkering with the Java 8 support under development by the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) project. I’ll admit that I’m a little underwhelmed by lambdas in Java 8. This, of course, … Continue reading →

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Building and Running Java 8 Support

Posted on February 4, 2014 by waynebeaton

The Eclipse support for Java 8 is not yet available for download. If you want to play with it, you’ve got to build it. Eclipsepedia’s JDT Core/Java8 page includes instructions for setting up your development environment with the source for … Continue reading →

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