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MyEclipse is Cool !!!

MyEclipse 6.0 GA has been released in August 2007 with a some cool features aiming at developers productivity. I just downloaded their 30 day trial version and played around little bit for two days. I was developing a AJAX and … Continue reading

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Plugin dependency visualization plugin

Thanks to Bull for contributing this great plugin. He has created and hosted the plugin dependency visualization plugin on eclipse. The dependency visualization aims to provide a set of views to assist with plug-in dependency analysis tasks. In particular, the … Continue reading

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Top 10 reasons to use eclipse…

Eclipse is Free: I have seen very few organizations that would support you with expensive IDEs. As a developer if i need to play with, i dont have too many choices. Eclipse is free. I can download without too many … Continue reading

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What do you do with Eclipse ?

Eclipse the ubiquitous platform has survived another challenge by releasing the Europa and the incredible download numbers speak for it. Initially it was perceived as a Java IDE  then Tool development Environment, then RCP  Platform, then Tool Integration Platform and … 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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Eclipse + CVS + JIRA is all i need for my development team.

I have been in different sorts of organizations working in Technology Startups to huge IT Organizations. I see a kind of huge differences with the kind of infrastructure that developers normally work with. In the end everyone is trying to get … 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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