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Eclipse
Europa to Ganymede, a flawless Eclipse upgrade
Jul 6th
I’ve been burned by Eclipse upgrades before, especially when it comes to running local tomcat servers in the IDE. I think as recent as 3.1 to 3.2 and 3.2 to 3.3, this or that got moved and all my tomcat servers disappeared, or they were there and they just didn’t want to start. I’m pleased
Converting a Java project to a Dynamic Web project in Eclipse
May 2nd
Once a project is created in Eclipse Europa of a certain type, it’s not the most straight forward process of changing the project to a different type. For example you have a project that Eclipse considers to be a Java project, but it’s actually a Web Project, you don’t get to take advantage of all
PHP (WordPress) development using Eclipse and XAMPP
Jan 6th
As can be determined from my other posts, I’m a Java Developer by trade and Eclipse is my editor of choice. Now I have gone to the darkside now and then for some good out of the box software, such as WordPress, which as you may know is written in PHP. The main reason I
Decompile Java Classes automatically in Eclipse with JadClipse
Sep 21st
There always comes that time, when you’re debugging a Java application, when you get to that compiled code inside that open source jar that you added to make your life easier. Whether there’s an actual bug or you’re just trying to understand some behavior or weirdness you’re getting from calling this third party API, sometimes
Eclipse – Open Resource Shortcut – Ctrl+Shift+R
Mar 20th
The biggest time-saver I’ve stumbled upon in Eclipse is the Open Resource Shortcut. Under the Navigate menu is the Open Resource command, shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R, which opens a window that allows you to type a search for any file that exists in your workspace, in your search you can use the ? to replace a single
Setup Eclipse and Tomcat to play nice together
Mar 17th
Eclipse is by far my favorite IDE, which makes Rational Application Developer bearable. The one thing I’ve been spoiled on in RAD is being able to run the WebSphere Test Environment inside the development environment and be able to have some level of hot deploy when modifying classes or jsp’s in the web project. This
