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Friday July 23, 2004

Eclipse Plugins Updated for 3.0

I finally got around to updating my Eclipse Plugins package for Eclipse 3.0 → Download or read the Release Notes. Below is a list of plugins included in this download. I dropped Lomboz and JSEditor b/c they didn't work at all with 3.0 on Windows - which I expect is the largest user base. Additions include CSS Editor and Doclipse.

Colorer and Jalopy don't work on OS X, so I wouldn't even bother installing them. Colorer has issues on Linux too. For OS X, I'd recommend buying a subscription to My Eclipse. It's only $30 and if you can afford a Mac, what's another $30? ;-) For a source code formatter on OS X, I recommend buying IDEA - it's only $200 - same cost principle applies. I tend to use IDEA a lot more on the Mac simply b/c it's faster and you don't need to install all these plugins. However, I've been stuck a lot in Eclipse-land lately because of it's multiple-project-in-one-pane support - as well as it copies and pastes code nicely into Word.

In addition to these plugins, I recommend installing the Spring IDE Plugin if you're using Spring [HowTo] - and Spindle if you're using Tapestry. Hopefully, distributions like this will become unnecessary with the introduction of the Web Tools project.

Posted in Java at Jul 23 2004, 03:31:57 PM MDT 13 Comments
Comments:

I use Lomboz just fine on 3.0, the release that was made a couple days after 3.0 final came out. Also downloaded the IBM contribution to the webtools project yesterday, and it really gives Lomboz a run for its money

Posted by Tony BenBrahim on July 23, 2004 at 06:20 PM MDT #

You should really check out a little plugin called Editor Enhancements until the features are merged into the Eclipse tree. Basically, the plugin allows you to do block (or column) editing. If you have ever written a line of html or SQL you will appreciate how helpful this is (sometimes autoformatting only goes so far). The plugin is part of the lunar-eclipse project.

Posted by Dan Allen on July 30, 2004 at 09:36 AM MDT #

The Tomcat Launcher 3.0 has been updated to final version. :) I like the package recommendations that you suggest ... there's so many options available for anyone to track on their own.

Posted by Lim Eu Gene on July 30, 2004 at 12:04 PM MDT #

The problem with colorer on MacOS X is that the library is not included. The INSTALL file gives instructions for building it for MacOS X, but my build failed with some C++-related link errors. Has anyone managed to build the lib on MacOS X?

Posted by John Tangney on September 02, 2004 at 02:00 PM MDT #

FYI, the next maintenance release of the commercial Jalopy (1.3.1, due out early november) will support Eclipse on Mac OS X. The problems you faced were caused by the AppKit prohibiting Swing calls after the SWT system has been started, thus limited to the Eclipse Plug-in only. The Swing based Plug-ins always worked under Mac OS X.

Posted by Marco Hunsicker on October 04, 2004 at 02:26 PM MDT #

Dear Sir, bhaskaran Simple dout, Single Selection List Box, How do convert the Multiple Selection please explain mail me. with regards G.Bhaskaran

Posted by G.BHASKARA on December 28, 2004 at 02:22 AM MST #

What is the best Eclipse Plugin for WebWork? And how did you do with WW on ECLIPSE? my email is [email protected], from China:)

Posted by kefi on January 14, 2005 at 12:26 PM MST #

Many excellent plugins are missing from your list. I'll just list some generally useful ones here first and hopefully return later with more recommendations.

Quantum allows you to connect to databases and make queries. I've successfully used it on MySQL, Postgres, Sybase and Oracle. So you don't even have to leave eclipse to access the database: Quantum plugin

logwatcher can be used to provide the same functionality as tail on UNIX, simple, but effective: Logwatcher plugin

log4e integrates with log4j and allows you to insert logging statements painlessly. Log4E plugin

Posted by Paul Sundling on June 26, 2005 at 11:16 PM MDT #

I'd reccomend the quite good commonclipse plugin (Commonclipse. It's quite good even though 3.2M5 has most, it doesn't have a good toString() generator. Also Quantum which Mr Paul Sundling is reccomending is a good plugin. And the link to the tomcat plugin is dead, it's now at: Sysdeo Tomcat plugin

Posted by Arnljot Arntsen on March 13, 2006 at 11:30 AM MST #

http://raibledesigns.com/trackback/rd/sunsets/eclipse_plugins_updated_for_31 can't call

Posted by c.Windolf on March 24, 2006 at 07:10 AM MST #

For Struts Development we use the Exadel Studio basic plugin. It is something like MyEclipse but free. There is a Exadel Studio Pro version but it costs. Although we usually use Exadel for Web Development, we are starting to discover the advantages of using AppFuse. However it is most of a personal project, for my own web-based development, instead of what we usually use at work. I'm hoping that once I get used to AppFuse I might convince my superiors to use it.... Also been hearing about Apache Maven.... what I understand is that it Ant's replacement....

Posted by Daniel Rodriguez on August 07, 2006 at 06:02 PM MDT #

Sir, I am doing my project in internationalization in Java using Eclipse version 3.2.1 and RCP.I refered the article " Internationalizing your Eclipse plug-in, Part 1: How to write Eclipse plug-ins for the international market " in IBM Websit it is useful.My problem is the version difference in eclipse .Could you please tell me the steps to internationalize the java plugin in eclipse Version 3.2.1 , it will very useful and guide me to do my project. Thanks, Jayam

Posted by jayam on November 23, 2006 at 07:55 AM MST #

hi

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