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Eclipse Internationalization Part 2/4 – New Message Extension by Dirk Fauth and Tom Schindl

In my last blog post I explained the current available solutions for translating an Eclipse 4 application and what is wrong with them. In this blog post I will show you a new solution for translating your Eclipse 4 application. … Continue reading

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Getting the Eclipse New and Noteworthy information

If you are looking for the note and newsworthy notes of the Eclipse platform project you are potentially using Google to search for it. This is not necessary, you can just clone the repository which contains this information. git clone … Continue reading

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Eclipse Internationalization Part 1/4 – Current Situation by Dirk Fauth

If you are developing Eclipse applications and plugins for users around the world, you should prepare them to be translated into several languages. While in other frameworks this process is quite straight forward (think of any webframework you know), in … Continue reading

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Eclipse Papercut #13 – Improved test template for JUnit 4

For Eclipse 4.3 we fixed the JUnit 4 test templates. See Bug report for details. In Eclipse 4.3 you can type “test” followed by CTRL+Space and select the first template proposal to get a JUnit test method generated. Good times … Continue reading

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Eclipse IDE Book – Finally a paper version and update for Kindle

I finally released the next edition of my Eclipse IDE book. I released two versions for the Kindle already and the last time I promised to deliver an update including handling Git with Eclipse. I used this opportunity to rework … Continue reading

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Eclipse Papercut #12 Showing all templates in code completion

I just returned from the JAX conference where I had the pleasure to join a panel discussion about Eclipse. I argued in that panel that the community (including me) need to contribute more to make things easier in Eclipse. This … Continue reading

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Eclipse Papercut #11 Updating Eclipse 4 RCP application with p2

I’m happy to report that with the help of Markus Kuppe we have created a detailed description how to update your Eclipse 4 RCP application with the Eclipse p2 API. See the Updating Eclipse 4 RCP applications tutorial for details. … Continue reading

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Using Eclipse Forms in Eclipse 4 RCP

During EclipseCon 2013 several people complained that Eclipse Forms is not available for pure Eclipse 4 RCP applicatoins. I hope it helps to migrate existing applications that Eclipse Forms has been migrate out of any Eclipse 3.x dependencies. See Bug … Continue reading

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EclipseCon presentations online

You find my two presentations from the EclipseCon online. How to become an Eclipse committer and fork the Eclipse IDE in 20 minutes Shake that FUD – How to migration for Eclipse 3 legacy code to Eclipse 4

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Want to try out NatTable 1.0.0? by Dirk Fauth

First of all: No NatTable 1.0.0 is not yet released! But EclipseCon starts today. Unfortunately there is no NatTable talk at EclipseCon, but we also want to participate in some kind of way. So we thought of celebrating this with … Continue reading

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