Welcome page in Eclipse provides you a unique way to introduce your product to the new users. Its very flexible and can be extended by other plugins. You can create the entire Welcome view by you...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2011/03/short-tutorial-on-intro-welcome.html
In case you have not heard it yet, Orion is the new Web IDE from Eclipse. In a blog entry introducing Orion , I said that this one is going to stand out from the crowd and going to rule the w...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2011/02/adding-new-editoraction-for-orion.html
Thanks to one of the readers of my blog, I came across this entry: http://eclipse-perspectivecustomization.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-10-mistakes-in-eclipse-plug-in.html That was a complete copy-p...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2011/01/beware-of-plagiarism.html
For a long time, there are multiple efforts for the concept of "single sourcing": One code base; runs on Web and Desktop without any/much change. I've always strongly rejected the idea of it. Che...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2011/01/web-is-name-of-game.html
You must have been used this JDT toolbar quite often. The New Class tool item is contributed as an Action in plugin.xml (id "org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.NewTypeDropDown"), and then the Menu on...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/12/contributing-workbench-wizards-thru.html
WINDOWLESS APPLICATION: SWT now supports an application level menu, so now its possible for an app to have a MenuBar without any Shell Here is the code sample: package com.ecli...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/10/new-features-on-mac.html
3.6 packages are coming to the mirror servers near you, and the reviews are hitting the Planet Eclipse already. Moving on to 3.7, what are the top most features I would love to see in Indigo? 3...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/06/top-3-things-i-want-in-eclipse-37.html
It was one hell of a ride. Finalizing the website for registration to designing of the schedule, all the choices were carefully evaluated. No wonder the professional event organizers are paid th...
Do you know that adding a new field to an interface or adding a new non-default constructor to a class can break the binary compatibility of your API? There are so many other things like these th...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/03/api-tooling-tutorial.html
Today the registrations open for Eclipse Day in Bangalore. The entry is *free*, but you have to register to get the ticket. The tickets are limited, so hurry up . The deadline for talk submissi...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/02/eclipse-day-in-bangalore-registrations.html
Its due for a long time :-) Ever since I purchased this domain, I wanted to create a site as a resource for Eclipse Plug-in developers. With little bit of hacking over the two weekends, the websi...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/01/launching-wwweclipse-tipscom.html
ABOUT Last year we had a successful Eclipse Demo Camp in Bangalore . In a post-event survey, many people said that they are willing to attend a full day event, and here we are. Me and Ankur a...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2010/01/eclipse-day-in-bangalore.html
Found this one on Phil's blog . Republishing it with his permission. Thanks Phil! INTRODUCTION This is a follow up to Commands Part 6: Toggle & Radio menu contributions of fellow blogger Prak...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/12/toggle-commands-toggle-other.html
When you are developing Eclipse plugins, sometimes its annoying that the changes in the plugin.xml won't reflect immediately. You need to restart the target Eclipse to see the changes. This will ...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/12/reload-your-plugins-without-restarting.html
The next big thing in Eclipse is Eclipse 4.0 dubbed as e4. It will be released in 2010. That doesn't mean that the 3.x stream will be deprecated or discontinued. The 3.x releases will go on for "...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/11/first-e4-rcp-application.html
Get (a different set of) Eclipse Tips in twitter: @Eclipse_Tips . If you are still in the RSS reader era, get the feed here .
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/11/eclipse-tips-on-twitter.html
Earlier we saw how to associate an Action with a Job . Now you can associate a Command. Its very similar - use the constant to set a property on the job: ICommandService service = (ICommandSe...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/10/associating-command-with-job.html
Its back :-) We are planning to organize a Demo Camp sometime in November. Date, time and venue to be decided. Since IBM's Eclipse team has grown since last Demo Camp, this time, you get a ve...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/09/eclipse-demo-camp-bangalore.html
Helios M2 is released. Now the biggest problem for the early adopters would be how to catch up with these milestones. Every time, you have to download the milestone build, and then update it with...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/09/catching-up-with-milestones-and-i.html
Every Eclipse plugin developer has to deal with Shell and Window, but sometimes doesn't understand the difference between these two. In this tip, I'm trying to explain the basic things: Display, ...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/09/back-to-basics-display-shell-window.html
In a previous tip, we saw how to make a Properties View to respond only to a particular View or Editor. In this tip, we are going to see how to exclude a particular View or Editor from the Prope...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/09/excluding-view-from-properties-view.html
As a rule of thumb, your application should try to remember the state across sessions. So when a user hits the close button and then opens it after few mins/days, it should present exactly in the...
The second day, I was a little late and missed the Oracle's Plenary session. I was in time for IBM's session. Being an IBM-er nothing new for me there to see RAD or websphere. It was good. The ...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/07/eclipse-summit-india-day-2.html
Before I start, a question: How do you know you are in troubled economic times? Today is the first day of Eclipse Summit India. Luckily, even after screwing up by taking a wrong road and going ...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/07/eclipse-summit-india-day-1.html
Keyboard shortcuts is usually much speedier than reaching out your mouse, moving it, pointing it to something and clicking. But there are some things which cannot be done that easily by keyboard ...
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/06/keyboard-accessibility-thru-command.html