Author Archives: sureshkrishna

How to position Eclipse Dialogs and Messages at ceter of screen.

Posted on September 5, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I want to share a common issues that most of the UI programmers come across. When we program with lots of dialogs and messages in any kind of applications, for the usability and predictability we would want most of them … Continue reading →

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Dont blame Eclipse if you cant train your users !!!

Posted on August 29, 2007 by sureshkrishna

This article is some thing that i want to write for a long time and i am writing it now :).  For reasons that we all know, many organizations have adopted Eclipse either as IDE for product development, ot IT customizes and … Continue reading →

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org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Unable to load graphics library [GDI+ is required] (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError)

Posted on August 25, 2007 by sureshkrishna

This is the SWTException that you might see on the W2K machine. This cause for this exception is absence of GDI+ library (gdiplus.dll) on Windows 2000. On WindowsXP and Vista they come by default and its taken care of. Don’t … Continue reading →

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Eclipse SWT Browser and Cross Browser compatibility

Posted on August 22, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have been using the Browser widget from past 1 year in my project which is targetted on AJAX and SOA kind of integration environments in Eclipse. As one can imagnine that the inbuilt browser capabilities are necessary on AJAX … Continue reading →

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At what level do you use eclipse ?

Posted on August 7, 2007 by sureshkrishna

 Eclipse the ubiquitous platform has survived another challenge by releasing the Europa and i am already seeing the # of downloads. Initially it was Java IDE then RCP Platform then Tool Building Platform and now as i know its an … Continue reading →

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Performance tools for Eclipse RCP Applications

Posted on August 4, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Recently i have been looking for the Testing, Performance and Runtime Visualization tools for Eclipse RCP Platform. The real challenge is to choose the variety of the tools that we have today in the market and which one suits us. … Continue reading →

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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Posted on July 19, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Looks like this is been a common error for almost memory intensive applications now-a-days. I have been working on eclipse for a long time and recently with the Eclipse + Java 1.5.0_04 + EMF + WTP combimation of installation, i … Continue reading →

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Europa launched…

Posted on July 2, 2007 by sureshkrishna

The long awaited europa launched few days ago and its really really cool. Releasing 21 eclipse projects at the same time is a tremendous work and they have did it again. I was very apprehensive about the initial stages of … Continue reading →

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When NOT to offshore ?

Posted on June 29, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Recently i have started realizing the side effects of offshoring. I have already worked with  off shoring projects for many years and and i was pretty convinced with this model. Its been almost from past 10 months that i am seeing some (more) challenging … Continue reading →

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Reno – The Biggest Little City in the World

Posted on June 13, 2007 by sureshkrishna

Probably a 1 day trip if you are living closer to it (around 100 miles) or a 2 day trip from bay area in CA. I would not say it as a MUST visit, but a time-pass place. We started … Continue reading →

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