Category Archives: Eclipse
Eclipse Secure storage of preferences
Eclipse allows to encrypt preference values via the plugin “org.eclipse.equinox.security”. The key/ value pairs will be stored in the file “secure.storage” in the folder “.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security” of the user directory. Eclipse uses a PasswordProvider for encrypting the preferences. Via the extension … Continue reading
Eclipse default line length of 80 chars outdated?
Today I write to get your opinion. I believe defaults are important as few developers take the time to change them and in a distributed team it is often the easiest to stay with the default settings. As we all … Continue reading
Eclipse SWT – Creating an email in the default email client
As many of you properly know SWT has the nice Program.launch() method which allows to start programs associated with an URI. Example: Unfortunately this does not seem to be working on Linux. So if you are working under Linux you … Continue reading
Eclipse RCP Tutorial updated to Indigo
Just a quick note, I updated my Eclipse RCP Tutorial to Eclipse Indigo. Contentwise no big changes, but I tried to structure everything a little bit more, e.g. the first RCP example is used in several chapters and is also … Continue reading
Eclipse Launcher – command line statement for starting your program
Eclipse allow you to start your program via the launcher framework which is very powerful and makes life simple. Sometimes you want to see the command line which Eclipse uses to start your program. Especially if the program does not … Continue reading
Eclipse Indigo – My top 5 minor features
Ian Bull did his Top 10 Features where he discuss the great new stuff in Eclipse Indigo. I tend to value the little things which makes my life easier. So here is my list of things which will help me … Continue reading
Mylyn Github Connector
Just in case you missed it, there is a prototype for a Mylyn and Github connector available. Please see https://github.com/blog/852-github-mylyn-connector-for-eclipse for the official announcement. Installing the connector is pretty straight forward you can directly install it from the Eclipse Marketplace … Continue reading
Importing existing Java Project into Eclipse – “Create project from existing source”
Are you trying to import a non-Eclipse based Java project into Eclipse? You find a lot of tips in the internet which tell you that you should create a new Java Project and then use the “Create project from existing … Continue reading
Registering for Android Intents – Being a crappy browser
One of the most powerful concepts of Android Development is that you can send asynchronously messages to other activities and services via Intents. The standard case is that you specify the intent you want to call and then Android starts … Continue reading
SWT Style Bits – Bitwise Or and Bitwise And
Ever wondered how SWT Style bits work? It is actually very simple. The style bits are a multitud of 2 SWT.NONE = 0, // 00000000 binary SWT.MULTI = 2, // 00000010 binary SWT.SINGLE = 4; // 00000100 binary SWT.READ_ONLY = … Continue reading
