On the verge of another Eclipse milestone release (3.1 M7 for this Friday), I thought it would be good to share my experiences with managing multiple Eclipse installs with everyone so you could try out the new Eclipse installations, without ruining your day by accidentally breaking your IDE, and being unable to get any work done.... more »

In my neverending quest to find the best JVM settings for running Eclipse I've been pouring over talks and papers given by Sun engineers and trying different things. Here are the best options that I've found so far for my 2-processor Windows machine running JDK5.0 and Eclipse3.1: ... more »

Adobe FlexBuilder is a set of plug-ins built on the Eclipse Platform which offers development tools around the Flex framework. In this short article, Renaud Denis shows you how to install FlesBuilder, and get up and running quickly.... more »

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) 1.0, a freely downloadable AJAX server for creating and deploying Rich Internet Applications. RAP 1.0 is the first AJAX platform that allows developers to create RIAS using the Eclipse component model, based on the OSGi standard - a service-oriented, component-based environment that promotes the interoperability of applications and services.... more »

I don't really care for any of the Eclipse plugins currently available for Maven (m2eclipse or Q4E), however I do like the Maven plugin for eclipse (it seems to be the only one that works). At Overstock.com everyone uses Eclipse, so as we are moving to Maven it is important that Maven work well in the IDE. Most folks checkout their code, develop and then check there code back into svn via Eclipse, never hitting the command line. Obviously, the Maven Eclipse plugin won't be good for them, ... more »

After months of regular milestones and community feedback, Sun has released a Beta version of NetBeans 6.0. NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written for programmers who use Java, Ruby, C/C++, and other languages. It competes for developer mindshare with Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEA, and many other free and commercial IDEs.... more »

Which IDE is best for writing Java code? Leaving aside NetBeans (a big assumption given that it now has excellent Ruby and JRuby integration), the choice was between Intellij or Eclipse. IntelliJ while commercial, wasn’t too expensive and ‘just worked’ out of the box. Eclipse, if you were willing to install multiple plugins, could be more powerful but more intimidating.... more »

Genuitec has announced the release of the commercial MyEclipse 6.0, offering advanced features and integration for Spring and Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) development. This Eclipse plugin set allows users to create entity managers and transaction manager beans, generate entities and DOA and much more through the cross-capabilities bridge created by MyEclipse.... more »

Adapted from Mylyn's home page description: Mylyn makes tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrates offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.... more »

JGear plug-ins to improve performance tuning, visual development and collaboration challenges for Java developers.... more »