Category Archives: plugins

Is "Naked Objects" trying to address similar problems as "EMF" ?

Yesterday i was going through the article from the Naked Objects about their platform and architecture. Once i gone through some of their articles and website, i had an impression that its also solving subset/similar set of problems solved by … Continue reading

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Help me with PermGen:OutOfMemoryException

I have a plugin developed for and AJAX based application with the help of Platform + EMF + WTP combination. Many of the clients who report this out of memory have following conditions… # Eclipse or Windows OS is not … Continue reading

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JSON2XML TreeViewer plugin for Eclipse

I have been working on the WEB2.0 platform from past one year. All the while i was looking out for simple plugins for eclipse to visualize and analyze the  json that either i built or got from server. It is … Continue reading

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TOP 10 Eclipse Shortcuts

Most of us who are using eclipse for at least 1 year are familiar with the shortcuts. Its been quite challenging to know and remember all the shortcuts during the development time. And of course we dont need all of … Continue reading

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

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 !!!

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)

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

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 ?

 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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Europa launched…

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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