Category Archives: eclipse

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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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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Is Eclipse getting Eclipsed ?

Posted on April 30, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have been working on the Eclipse platform right from version 2.0. I have lead few projects on the Automotive and Internet Industries. Initially around 2001 and 2002, there were lot of announcements from the member companies and new joiners … Continue reading →

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Eclipse feature configuration via Links

Posted on January 11, 2007 by sureshkrishna

The number of features and plug-ins available for eclipse are really growing in zillions. Overwhelming part is that many have contributed very good features to open source community. Sourceforge is one of it. Initially when i started i had only … Continue reading →

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Aptana : Source code editor for js, jsp, html, css

Posted on January 1, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have recently used the Aptana Source code editor. Its been almost from 2 months i have been using  this editor.  Somehow i am quite impressed with the performance and the features provided by the Aptana editor. Initially i just … Continue reading →

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PShelf Widget in Eclipse

Posted on December 21, 2006 by sureshkrishna

PShelf Widget is really cool, if you want to implement a kind of Accordion widget in Eclipse. The Accordion widget is been gaining popularity in the end user community, especially with the AJAX and SOA presence. Currently for simple implementations … Continue reading →

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Showing Hierarchical data in Eclipse

Posted on December 9, 2006 by sureshkrishna

Withe the introduction of RCP, EMF-RCP, GEF and GMF, now there are plethora of choices to display hierarchical or grouped data. I have been struggling with all these varieties to choose one amongst them. Its quite clear why would you … Continue reading →

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Minimum set of plug-ins for Eclipse RCP

Posted on December 4, 2006 by sureshkrishna

There has been a lot of confusion about the RCP and the number of plug-ins. Does org.eclipse.core.resources or org.eclipse.ui.ide a part of the RCP plug-ins. As i have seen and built the RCP applications…there are only TWO plug-ins needed for … Continue reading →

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What does Eclipse RCP Provide ?

Posted on December 4, 2006 by sureshkrishna

For all those who think of the Eclipse as Java IDE, please ….come out of this notion. If you strip all the plug-ins that makes Java IDE, then we are left with the core components like… views, perspectives, menus, toolbars, … Continue reading →

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