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I've started to read the book "Code Craft" by Pete Goodliffe. The fourth chapter is about instruments that developer uses during his daily work; this chapter made me to review my work and I've seriously decided to make it easier with fully personalized IDE. Eclipse IDE is what I've started my learning from...
I've read documentation and found that it's really easy to do tasks routine from Eclipse. We are using Mantis for tracking tasks and it was great surprise for me to find out Mantis Connector for Mylyn.
Also I was pretty glad to see SVN client integrated into Eclipse IDE.
Also I've found UML2 tool for Eclipse, but was disappointed because there is no any graphic interface for building diagramms. (Or, maybe, I'm was searching in wrong place?)
What useful plugins do you use in your daily work?
How do you use Eclipse for collaboration in your team?
Do you have any links about intergration Eclipse IDE experience in dev. team?
Thank you!
If you do web development with Tomcat, the Sysdeo launcher plugin is handy. Also, it is definitely worth some time to learn the more important keyboard shortcuts. Good lists here and here (with a little overlap). Ctrl-Shift-R and Ctrl-Shift-T are especially vital when you have a large code base.
I use eclipse for Java, so that's pretty much the extent of my experience as far as languages go.
Subclipse (which I guess you are using) and the built in JUnit tool are the two things I use the most.
Also, hitting F3 will take you to the definition of a method, and F4 will tell you which classes implement a given interface.
Eclipse will also generate your getters and Setters (RightClick->source->Generate Getters/Setters)
My two favorite hotkeys in Eclipse are
control-alt-up/down : copy the current line or selected lines
alt-up/down : move the current line or selected lines
Get used to these two and your coding speed improves drastically!
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I'm new to Java. I took an introductory course where I was using NetBeans, but I noticed that some of my classmates were using Eclipse. From what I've understood, Eclipse is the popular IDE among IT companies.
My question is, as a new programmer, should I stay with NetBeans or switch to Eclipse?
You forgot one more: IntelliJ.
They are all different and there is no single "best one", for example each has a feature that another doesn't.
My personal remarks:
Eclipse is probably the most open. It's very actively developed. It was the de facto standard at all 4 companies I worked for so far. Eclipse is completely free.
IntelliJ is kind of intelligent. It's really interesting to use, but not all features are available in the community edition. I evaluated it because somebody claimed that a study shows that it makes you about 10% more productive but I haven't seen the study itself. I think IntelliJ is awesome but I'm so used to Eclipse it's really hard to switch.
Unfortunately I've never even seen NetBeans.
Considering these points, Eclipse seems the safest choice, due to its popularity at my past workplaces and open and free nature. But your mileage may vary.
Just keep in mind that Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ whatever are just tools. It doesn't matter whichever you choose, the most important thing is that you get coding, and code well. Use whichever makes you the most productive.
Honestly, I think both are equally prevalent. Once you learn one, it is not a huge deal to switch to the other. Those with whom I work have their own preferences, and the company does not have a preference - nor do the contracting companies that we work with. To each his own seems to be pretty standard policy. That being said, in my experience the IDE choice has sometimes been defined by the problem at hand (ease of use, different plugins for particular purposes, etc.).
Bottom line - learn both. It isn't that hard to do and you will probably use both eventually anyway.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I've just watched a video of the Groovy inventor, James Strachan, in which he goes on quite passionately about loving Scala. That caused me to want to find out more about Groovy which lead me to Groovy++. Groovy++ is a statically typed and compiled version of Groovy (which is apparently completely dynamic).
I attempted to figure out what Groovy++ (latest version at 0.9.1?) was in contrast with Scala (latest version at 2.10). The activity on the Groovy++ forum doesn't have very much recent activity regarding the latest version for which to be able to draw much information.
So, is there a nice simple comparison/contrast of Scala to Groovy++? I am not interested in Groovy itself (other than being the basis upon which Groovy++ is designed) as I want to compare statically compiled features side by side. A simple advanages/disadvantages (i.e. tradeoffs) list is basically what I am seeking without having to do dozens to hundreds of hours of research and experimentation.
Thank you, in advance, for anything you can contribute to this contrast and compare query.
Groovy++ project died last year-ish, apparently due to schism between SpringSource Groovy team and non-SpringSource supported Groovy++ team (led by Alex T. who now seems to be an active contributor to the Kotlin project along with, ironically enough James Strachan).
Was pretty ugly, Alex T. was understandably pissed off about getting the rug swept out from under him (Spring Groovy announced their own static Groovy). Check through some of the Old Nabble entries for the back & forth, heated at times. Not sure how things stand now, competition brings out the best & worst, maybe both sides are over it...
At any rate I too bailed, ditching Groovy for Scala and am overwhelmingly happy to have made that decision -- Scala rocks, I dare say, it Scocks™, give Scala a try! ;-)
Groovy was a great transition-to-JVM language for me, but the lack of compile time guarantees just drove me nuts after awhile (probably why static Groovy project(s) came into being in the first place)
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm looking for a lua IDE on linux. The majority of suggestions I've seen so far are windows only.
I would have liked to use one of the Eclipse plugins for lua, but both of them -- LuaEclipse and LunarEclipse -- haven't been updated in nearly two years, and don't seem to work with Eclipse 3.5. If you have had any luck in getting lua working in Eclipse, I would be very interested.
From this question you could try the beta site for LuaEclipse and see if it works.
LuaEclipse 1.2 and earlier does not work with newer Eclipses.
LuaEclipse 1.3 "beta" definitely does work with Eclipse 3.5 on Linux (at least on my Ubuntu box).
Grab it here: http://luaeclipse.luaforge.net/preview/update-site
Also you may try LuaEclipse 2.0 beta (less stable): http://github.com/KINFOO/LuaEclipse/#readme
KDevelop also has some support for Lua (at least syntax highligting, which is enough in many cases).
Note also, that if you do not want an IDE, but merely an editor, you may use kate, gedit, SciTE and many other programmer's editors, available for Linux. Most of them support Lua out of the box (at least for syntax highlighting, some even have some rudimentary code completion).
Not to mention vim and emacs. :-)
You might investigate SciTE. Its available for both Windows and Linux, and is based on the Scintilla programmer's text editor component. It also supports scripting the editor in Lua, and can be used to debug Lua scripts.
I use gedit with some plugins. That gives me syntax highlighting. I have a console in another window.
It would help to know what particular functionalities you need from your IDE, besides that.
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Closed 10 years ago.
How does the IDEA Community Edition compare with Eclipse?
IDEA is a far better IDE than Eclipse (general opinion by people that use IDEA).
On a feature point of view, everything that IDEA CE can also been done by Eclipse. However,
IDEA is a commercial product, which limits its adoption. Thanks to the Community Edition, you can test this IDE for free, in order to develop JavaSE applications (or Scala or Groovy). For an enterprise, this is quite limited, as you will not be able to develop J2EE applications.
My conclusion is that IDEA CE is only a tool that allows you to test and understand the philosophy of this IDE. If you are convinced by IDEA, then you will really have to choose between the Ultimate Edition, which will let develop any kind of applications, or stay with Eclipse.
The best, straight answer to this, is to look at the feature matrix of which features are still left in Ultimate-Edition. Eclipse probably has support for all of these things, although the quality of the integrations can always be an issue.
Why IDEA:
detects unused public fields and methods
easy way to run or debug only one test method (you don't need to modify configuration)
faster code coverage report generation (at least for EMMA)
understand difference between source and test source
easier way to manage libs - just include lib dir (in eclipse you have to specify all jars explicitly), so you don't have to update it manually every time when new jar was included
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Closed 10 years ago.
I'm interested in writing eclipse plugins where do I start?
What resources have helped you?
I'm looking for:
1. Tutorials
2. Sites devoted to plugin development
3. Books
I have done quite a bit with an RCP application that made use of multiple plug-ins. This book helped me tremendously in all fronts: RCP framework and plug-in development:
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Rich-Client-Platform-Applications/dp/0321334612
The book walks you through the development of a IM chat client using RCP and plug-in development.
Also the eclipse site and IBM have some pretty good tutorials, here is one: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecplug/
You can find a good step by step detailed tutorial here:
http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/
Other tutorials:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-snippet/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16RichEclipse
http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html
A decent book, that I've used is "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins".
The RCP book mentioned above is great
Also there are some older online articles on the eclipse site starting with http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html. Unfortunately they are a bit out of date.
Eclipse's own Help contains a Platform Plug-in Developer Guide. It is a suggested reading in IBM's site.
I'm trying to build a plugin myself. After reading a little bit of "Eclipse Plug-ins" book I missed a more tutorial style writing. Vogella tutorial is quite good. After doing it, I started reading some Eclipse code (as described by Vogella in his tutorial). And now I found the Eclipse's Help resource.
Here's all the books available for developing Eclipse Plugins:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/books-index-req-view_subcat-sid-4.html
As Eclipse RCP is also based on plug-ins this might also help: Eclipse RCP Introduction