On Eclipse

Readings

Overall

• Runtime options for Eclipse 4.6
• Annual release of Eclipse
• List of Eclipse projects

• Variables for launch configurations

Concepts

• Feature

Help Center

• Eclipse Juno (4.2) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Indigo (3.7) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Helios (3.6) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Galileo (3.5) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) HTML Help Center
• Eclipse Europa (3.3) HTML Help Center

Source and Artifacts

• Eclipse.org Git repositories
• Eclipse Project Update Sites

Development Conventions and Guidelines

• Naming Conventions
• Coding Conventions
• User Interface Guidelines
• Doc Style Guide
• Version Numbering Guidelines

Tutorials & Articles

• Eclipse resources at eclipse.org
• SSH Access through Eclipse RSE
• What are the best JVM settings for Eclipse?
• "The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes." at .metadata/.log
• How do I create a feature?
• Understanding Decorators in Eclipse
• Increasing content assist windows size in Eclipse on Linux
  • For CDT, ${workspace_location}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/dialog_settings.xml would have completion_proposal_size section
• Building a help plug-in
• PDE Incubator Spy : ALT+SHIFT+F1
• Eclipse Platform » How to "Open Command Prompt Here" in Windows
  • Location: ${system_path:cmd.exe}
• ADT does not load target platforms even if they are installed. How to Fix?
• Find and Replace With Line Breaks in Eclipse
• Javascript Eclipse Indentation problem with Object property (Jun 24 '11)
• Ignore whitespace while doing diff (eclipse, subclipse, svn)(2011/07/13)
• Eclipse IDE. See list of all a class's inherited methods(Dec 16 '10)
  • Not Outline, But Ctrl + O
• Creating a bookmark for an entire file
• Creating linked resources
• Eclipse fails to start
  • eclipse -clean -cleanPersistedState

• Configuration
  • Eclipse global preferences
  • Eclipse multi-user installs
  • Eclipse Preference store persistance
  • How do I save Eclipse launch profiles across workspaces?
  • Creating and Sharing Launch Configurations
  • Eclipse multi-user installs
    • has many issues and NOT recommended
  • Integrate external tools and builders in Eclipse(06 May 2008)
    • Variables for launch configurations are listed and explained.
  • Honour all schema locations in XML preferences

• Debugging
  • Debug Java applications remotely with Eclipse (09 December 2008)
  • Remote debugging with Tomcat using Eclipse (Korean)
  • In eclipse, while debugging, how do I access the interactive-top-level (a.ka. the “display console”)?
  • 5 Tips for Debugging Java Code in Eclipse
  • Effective Java Debugging with Eclipse (Jan 8th, 2013)

• Templates
  • Effective Eclipse: Custom Templates
  • Getting started with Eclipse code templates
  • How can I add a default header to my source files automatically in Eclipse?

misc

• Maven repositories for Eclipse
  • Yet, testing repository is available.
• Eclipse Editor: How to change file format from Dos to Unix (Mar 3 '10)
  • [File -> Convert Line Delimiters To] menu

Platform & RCP

• API
  • Eclipse Platform 4.2 API Specification
  • Eclipse 4.2 Platform Extension Points Reference
  • Eclipse Platform 3.7 API Specification
  • Eclipse Platform 3.6 API Specification
  • Eclipse Platform 3.6 Extension Points Reference
  • Eclipse Platform 3.5 API Specification

• Tutorials & Articles
  • Eclipse RCP Tutorial by Lars Vogel
  • Command Core Expressions
  • plugin_customization.ini and Eclipse preferences
  • Preferences in the Eclipse Workbench UI

SWT/JFace

• SWT
• SWT Widgets
• SWT Snippets
• JFace Snippets
• SWT Events

• Readings
  • SWT
    • SWT setfocus to the same widget that lost it
    • Forcing Controls to Wrap - SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit
    • Managing Operating System Resources
  • JFace
    • Eclipse JFace Overview
    • Eclipse JFace Table - Tutorial
  • JFace Data Binding
    • JFace Data Binding Wiki
    • JFace Data Binding/DOM
    • JFace Data Binding - Tutorial
    • JFace Data Binding/SSE

• Related project
  • Nebula : http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/
    • place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT, JFace and RAP.
  • Opal : http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/opal/
    • propose new widgets for the SWT API.

PDE

• Tutorials & Articles
  • FAQ What is the plug-in manifest file (plugin.xml)?
  • Feature and Plug-in Build Configuration Properties
  • OSGi manifest headers
  • Contributing Actions to the Eclipse Workbench (January 2, 2007)

JDT

• API
  • Eclipse JDT 3.8 API
  • Eclipse JDT 3.7 API

AST

• Manipulating Java code
• YAAT – Yet another AST tutorial

JSDT

• API
  • Eclipse JSDT 3.2 API

• Readings
  • Scripting Made Easier with the Eclipse JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) (4/25/13)
  • Add External JS Libraries to Eclipse JSDT-driven Projects (5/22/13)

WTP

• API
  • Web Standards Tools API

• Sources

• Readings
  • Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform
  • WTP Community Resources
  • SSE (Structured Source Editing)
    • Structured Source Editing (SSE) Component Overview
    • Reintroducing the Structured Source Editing family of editors
    • Structured Source Editing Evaluation Guide

Tycho

• Glossary

  target platform 

  the set of artifacts from which Tycho resolves the project's dependencies.

• http://www.eclipse.org/tycho/
• http://www.eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/
• source repostiory
• Tycho/Reference Card
• Tycho/Packaging Types
• Tycho/Target Platform
• eclipse-plugin packaging lifecycle

• Building Eclipse Plug-ins and RCP Applications with Tycho(EclipseCon 2013)
• tycho with maven-compiler-plugin
  • You need to install m2eclipse-tycho extension to work with tycho projects in eclipse which is located at update site of Maven Integration for Eclipse Extras.
• Why Maven Tycho?
• Tycho/How Tos/Dependency on pom-first artifacts

EMF

• API
  • EMF 2.6 API Specification

• Tutorials & Articles
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework(EMF) Tutorial by Lars Vogel
  • openArchitectureWare User Guide
    contains EMF tutorial, Xtext tutorial, samples and so on.
  • EMF Tutorial on Robowiki

GEF

• org.eclipse.draw2d.examples

• References
  • Eclipse Draw2d 3.8 API
• Tutorials & Articles
  • Draw2d outside Eclipse
  • Display a UML Diagram using Draw2D
  • Connections and Anchors Example
    • This has some bugs. To fix it, refer "http://git.eclipse.org/c/gef/org.eclipse.gef.git/tree/org.eclipse.draw2d.examples/src/org/eclipse/draw2d/examples/connections/ConnectionAndAnchorExample.java"
  • Eclipse Zest Tutorial by Lars Vogel

Equinox p2

• Tutorials & Articles
  • Equinox/p2/Ant Tasks
  • EPP/Galileo Packages
  • Equinox/p2/Installer
    • a small SWT-based installer that can be used to install the Eclipse SDK
  • Tutorial: p2 updates for Eclipse RCP applications
  • Simplifying The p2 Process, Part 1: p2 Composite Repos
  • Equinox p2 Repository Mirroring
  • Installing eclipse from the command line
  • Automating Eclipse Provisioning
  • Customizing p2 Installer
  • How to mirror Eclipse p2 Repositories
  • Mirror Eclipse repositories with p2.mirror Ant task
  • p2 director script sample
    • Excellent sample in real world, never trivial.
  • Running update manager from command line
    • replaced by p2 director, but still useful with traditional update site.
  • Query Language for p2

p2 director

• Equinox/p2/Director
• Installing software using the p2 director application

p2 console

• Equinox/p2/Console Users Guide

Mylyn

• Tutorials & Articles
  • Generic Web Templates Connector
  • HowTo connect a Mylyn repository to Redmine

Mylyn WikiText

• provides an extensible framework and tools for parsing, editing and presenting lightweight markup
• Readings
  • Wiki
  • User guide
  • Mylyn WikiText editor apperance

CDT

• References
  • CDT Wiki
  • CDT FAQ
    • Debugging C/C++ Projects
• Tutorials & Articles
  • Linux Tools Project/Libhover/Developers Guide
  • C/C++ preferences > Indexer
  • CDT Indexer
  • How To Install Eclipse CDT 8.2 and Get Started
  • Learning Eclipse & ARM > Setting Prj Properties
  • Executing Multiple Commands as Post-Build Steps in Eclipse(09.26.2014)
  • Eclipse CDT shows semantic errors, but compilation is ok (Nov 16 '11)
  • Building multiple binaries within one Eclipse project (Mar 11 '10)
  • Eclipse Juno has landed with unit testing support for C++ (2012/07)

Docker Tooling

• Docker Tooling User Guide
• Eclipse for Docker has arrived on Mars

Noticeable Eclipse Projects

Graphiti

• http://www.eclipse.org/graphiti/
• Desc. : an Eclipse-based graphics framework that enables rapid development of state-of-the-art diagram editors for domain models.

Xtext

• http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/
• Desc. : a framework for development of programming languages and domain-specific languages.

Eclipse Plugins

• Must Have(^★★★)
  • CDT
  • DLTK
  • PyDev
  • JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT)
  • Aptana Studio
  • SpringSource Tool Suite
  • MyBatipse
  • FindBugs Eclipse plugin
  • jshint-eclipse
  • Mylyn WikiText

Language support

• CDT
  • https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
  • Desc. : provides a fully functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment based on the Eclipse platform

• Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK)
  • https://eclipse.org/dltk/
  • Desc. : provides exemplary Tcl, Ruby, Javascript and Python development environments ready to use out of the box.

• Scala IDE
  • http://scala-ide.org/
  • Desc. : provides advanced editing and debugging support for the development of pure Scala and mixed Scala-Java applications.
  • Readings
    • Advanced Setup > Eclipse Configuration
    • Optimizing Eclipse performances Especially for Scala projects

• PyDev
  • http://www.pydev.org/
  • Desc. : a Python IDE for Eclipse, which may be used in Python, Jython and IronPython development.
  • License: EPL

• GoClipse
  • http://goclipse.github.io/
  • Desc. : an Eclipse IDE for the Go programming language.
  • Readings
    • User Guide

• JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT)^★★★
  • http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jsdt/
  • Desc. : provide plug-ins that implement an IDE supporting the development of JavaScript applications and JavaScript within web applications.

• jsdt-jquery
  • https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/jsdt-jquery/
  • Desc. : a plugin for the Eclipse JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) that adds jQuery autocompletion support.

• Nodeclipse
  • http://www.nodeclipse.org/
  • Desc. : Eclipse plugin for the Node.js.

• Eclipse Corrosion
  • https://github.com/eclipse/corrosion/
  • Desc. : a Rust development plugin for the Eclipse IDE, providing a rich edition experience through integration with the Rust Language Server and Cargo.

• Aptana Studio^★★★
  • http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3
  • Desc. : The professional, open source development tool for the open web.
  • Readings
    • JavaScript Library Support
    • Using JavaScript Libraries
    • Displaying Content Assist
    • Code Assist Doesn't Work for Aptana Ver 3 Plug-in to Eclipse Ver 3
    • Aptana complaining about empty script(Jun '12)
    • Aptana Git Plugin - Disable?
    • How to disable git in aptana? or turn it off? (Aug 27 '11)

• Eclipse XPath evaluation plugin
  • https://code.google.com/p/eclipse-xpath-evaluation-plugin/
  • Desc. : provides a new view in an eclipse perspective and enables the user to evaluate XPath expressions against the active text editor containing XML.
  • License : New BSD License

• XQuery Development Tools (XQDT)
  • http://wiki.eclipse.org/XQDT
  • Desc. : provides support for editing, execution, and debugging of XQuery modules in Eclipse.

• Vex
  • http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/vex/click
  • Desc. : Visual editor for XML

• VJET
  • http://eclipse.org/vjet/
  • Desc. : provides a fully integrated development environment for JavaScript - from authoring, to execution/test, and debugging.

• AST View
  • http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/astview/
  • visualize the AST (abstract syntax tree) of a Java file open in the editor.

• ANTLR IDE
  • http://antlrv3ide.sourceforge.net/
  • Desc. : an eclipse plugin for ANTLRv3 grammars.

• YAKINDU Solidity Tools
  • https://github.com/Yakindu/solidity-ide
  • Desc. : provides an integrated development environment for ethereum / solidity based smart contracts.
  • License : EPL

Frameworks support

• SpringSource Tool Suite^★★★
  • http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts
  • Desc. : Spring framework development tools

• MyBatipse^★★★
  • https://github.com/harawata/mybatipse
  • Desc. : an Eclipse plug-in which provids content assists and validations when editing MyBatis related files.

• Hibernate Tools for Eclipse and Ant
  • http://www.hibernate.org/subprojects/tools.html
  • Desc. : Hibernate development tools

• AJDT
  • http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/
  • Desc. : AspectJ development tools

• Google Plugin for Eclipse
  • https://developers.google.com/eclipse/
  • Desc. : development tools for GWT and Google App Engine

• Logback-beagle
  • http://logback.qos.ch/beagle/
  • Desc. : an Eclipse plug-in for viewing logs

• TestNG Eclipse plug-in^★★'
  • http://testng.org/doc/eclipse.html
  • Desc. : TestNG development tools

• AngularJS Eclipse
  • https://github.com/angelozerr/angularjs-eclipse

• scalatest-eclipse-plugin
  • http://www.scalatest.org/user_guide/using_scalatest_with_eclipse
  • Desc. : provides seamless support for testing in the Scala IDE for Eclipse.

• Drools and jBPM tools
  • https://www.drools.org/download/download.html
  • Desc. : Eclipse plugins and support for Drools, jBPM and Guvnor functionality.

Tools support

• M2Eclipse^★★★
  • http://jora.luenasoft.de/ M2Eclipse
  • As of me, the previous plugin M2Eclipse(http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/) by Sonatype is still better than the current m2e(http://eclipse.org/m2e/) by Eclipse.
  • Update sites
    • m2e 0.12 update site
    • m2e-extras update site
    • m2e update sites by version
    • m2e-extras update sites by version
  • Readings
    • Execution Not Covered

• m2eclipse
  • http://eclipse.org/m2e/
  • Desc. : Maven plug-in
  • Readings
    • maven-dependency-plugin (goals “copy-dependencies”, “unpack”) is not supported by m2e(Jan 2 '12)
    • Execution Not Covered
    • How to solve “Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration” for Spring Data Maven Builds(Jun 15 '11)
    • org.eclipse.m2e.lifecyclemapping.defaults/lifecycle-mapping-metadata.xml

• m2eclipse-scala
  • http://scala-ide.org/docs/tutorials/m2eclipse/
  • Desc. : understands the Scala maven plugin and links the compile phase to the Eclipse Scala Builder.

• Eclipse Buildship
  • https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.buildship
  • Desc. : a collection of Eclipse plug-ins that provide support for building software using Gradle

• Subclipse
  • http://subclipse.tigris.org/
  • Desc. :Subversion client

• EGit
  • http://www.eclipse.org/egit/
  • Desc. :Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system.

• FindBugs Eclipse plugin^★★★
  • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/eclipse.html

• PMD Eclipse Plugin
  • https://github.com/pmd/pmd-eclipse-plugin

• The Eclipse PMD Plug-in
  • http://acanda.github.io/eclipse-pmd/

• cppcheclipse
  • https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/cppcheclipse/
  • Desc. : An Eclipse plugin which integrates cppcheck (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcheck/) with the CDT projec

• eclipse-cs
  • http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/
  • Desc. : integrates the well-known source code analyzer Checkstyle into today's leading IDE - Eclipse.
  • License :

• jshint-eclipse^★★★
  • http://github.eclipsesource.com/jshint-eclipse/

• JDepend4Eclipse
  • http://andrei.gmxhome.de/jdepend4eclipse/

• FlexPMD eclipse plugin
  • "http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexpmd/wiki/FlexPMD Eclipse plugin/"

• eclox
  • http://home.gna.org/eclox/
  • Desc. : a simple doxygen frontend plug-in for eclipse.
  • License : GPL

• JadClipse
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/jadclipse/
  • Desc. : Java decompiler

• Memory Analyzer
  • http://www.eclipse.org/mat/
  • a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and reduce memory consumption.

• Eclipse launcher for VisualVM
  • http://visualvm.java.net/eclipse-launcher.html
  • Desc. : Monitoring and profiling Eclipse projects using VisualVM

• Java Mission Control for Eclipse
  • http://download.oracle.com/technology/products/missioncontrol/updatesites/base/5.5.0/eclipse/
  • Desc. : a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE designed to help develop, profile and diagnose applications running on the Oracle Java HotSpot VM.

• Eclipse Docker Tooling
  • https://eclipse.org/linuxtools/projectPages/docker/
  • Desc. : provides the ability to manage Docker images and containers from within the Eclipse IDE.
  • Readings
    • Eclipse Docker Tooling for Neon
    • Docker Tooling User Guide

Editing support

• Eclipse Hex Editor Plugin (EHEP)
  • http://ehep.sourceforge.net/

• Properties Editor
  • http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/index_en.html

• ShellEd^★★
  • http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/shelled
  • Desc. : Unix/Linux shell script editor for Eclipse

• Bash Editor
  • https://github.com/de-jcup/eclipse-bash-editor
  • Bash editor plugin for eclipse

• Mylyn WikiText^★★★
  • http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/WikiText
  • Desc. : Tools for parsing, editing and presenting lightweight markup

• Regex Util^★★★
  • http://myregexp.com/eclipsePlugin.html
  • Desc. : Testing/editing regular expressions flavor of the Sun Java standard API (java.util.regex)

• AnyEdit^★★
  • http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/
  • Desc. : adds several new tools to the context menu of text- based Eclipse editors, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar.

• LiClipseText
  • http://www.liclipse.com/text/
  • Desc. : an editor which enables Eclipse to be used as a general-purpose text editor, providing support for multiple languages out of the box
  • License : EPL
  • Update site : http://www.liclipse.com/text/updates

• Eclipse Json Editor Plugin
  • https://github.com/boothen/Json-Eclipse-Plugin
  • Desc. : a simple plugin for the Eclipse IDE that provides: - Color text highlighting - An Outline Tree view - JSON validation - Text formatting - Text folding for the JSON data format.
  • http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/json-editor-plugin

• YEdit
  • https://code.google.com/p/yedit/
  • Desc. : an editor for editing YAML files.
  • License : EPL 1.0

• Eclipse plugin for Typesafe Config files
  • https://github.com/dragos/typesafe-config-eclipse
  • Desc. : Eclipse toolings for editing configuration files in Hocon format

• GFM(GitHub Flavored Markdown) Viewer plugin for Eclipse
  • https://github.com/satyagraha/gfm_viewer
  • Desc. : providing an accurate view of GitHub Flavored Markdown (.md) files

Database support

• DBViewer Plugin
  • http://www.ne.jp/asahi/zigen/home/plugin/dbviewer/
  • Desc. : General database client

• jOra
  • http://jora.luenasoft.de/
  • This program provides not only typical components for application programmer such as schema browser, SQL editor and executor but also some components for DBA such as session viewer and parameter viewer.
    This program is for only Oracle database and so provides Oracle friendly components, stored procedure editor and PL/SQL editor.
    
  • Components :
    • Connections View
    • Database Explorer
    • Schema Browser
    • SQL Worksheet
    • SQL Script Editor
    • SQL History
    • SQL Monitor
    • DMBS Output-View
    • Stored Procedure Editor
    • PL/SQL Editor
    • Outline View
    • Sessions View
    • Parameters View

misc

• Wicked Shell^★★
  • http://www.wickedshell.net/
  • Desc. : An Eclipse plugin providing direct access to your system's shell.

• Grep Console
  • http://marian.schedenig.name/projects/grep-console/
  • Desc. : allows you to define a series of regular expressions which will be tested against the console output.

• LogViewer
  • http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/logviewer/

Useful Builders and Natures

Configuration

Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown

Useful Shortcuts of Eclipse

• 10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know

Best Editor by File Type

• XML Schema
  • XML Editor
    • editor class : XMLMultiPageEditorPart
    • plug-in : org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui
    • feature
      • contextual proposal for tag (not for attribute name or attribute value)
      • auto complete for tag

Tips and Tricks

Typical Eclipse Startup Script

Content Assistant How-to

Typical Java Type Filters

Code Formatter Profile

Java Compact Format

• indentation style : spaces only
• indentation size : 2
• tab size : 2
• line length : 120
• minimum white spaces and new lines

JavaScript Compact Format

• indentation style : spaces only
• indentation size : 2
• tab size : 2
• line length : 120
• minimum white spaces and new lines

Scala Compact Format

XML Compact Format

Silent Installation of Eclipse

You can install Eclipse directly from the repository or download page using p2 director or something. Maybe the most reusable way is Ant script like the following

WikiText Appearance

[Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > WikiText > Appearance]

Optimized Eclipse Preference