The Visual Editor has a palette from which the user can choose frequently used widgets. This article is a deep dive into the internals of the Visual Editor framework to show how to extend its capabilities. Visual Editor lets you create your own custom controls. This article shows the way to create a new palette category with a custom built widget DateField.... more »

Normally it is a good practice to have class variables declared as private and use non private “getter and setter” methods to access them. This is otherwise called as data encapsulation in Object Oriented Programming.... more »

The Swing API is complicated—that’s the price to pay for flexibility provided for coding applications.... more »

The first version of Eclipse was released in November 2001. Eclipse was announced by IBM as a $40 million donation to the Open Source community. Eclipse is now completely managed by eclipse.org, an independent, nonprofit organization.... more »

The popular Eclipse IDE's latest release, version 3.2, is the cornerstone of an ambitious release of ten Eclipse-branded projects on the same day. But what's in it for you? Ed Burnette takes a look at the new features in Eclipse's Java Development Tools and shows you how they'll make your development much easier.... more »

Since Eclipse is a free, open source application/platform, the revenue model is based on providing extensions, support, and training. If it was intuitive, easy to use, easy to extend, or a complete solution, there would be no incentive for people to pay for the services that make money.... more »

A nasty catfight erupted around the clichéd Netbeans vs Eclipse topic. As always, the old SWT grudge was thrown in there. Personally, as an RCP developer working for a consulting company, SWT has given us the benefit of doing business with traditional Microsoft companies who are blissfully unaware that they are using Java applications.... more »

In today's development environment, users expect to be able to visualize data, configuration, and even the processes of a system. For this reason, they use tools to communicate requirements visually with stakeholders and subject matter experts. Think for a moment about UML, ... more »

The latest release of Eclipse (Eclipse 3.2) comes with Callisto, a rich set of optional plugins for Eclipse 3.2. Callisto includes a powerful profiling tool called the Eclipse... more »

Eclipse community will be richer for the new Europa release. It is a coordinate release of 21 Eclipse Foundation projects. The main component of this release is certainly new 3.3 version of the Eclipse Platform. Others include…... more »