Monthly Archives: October 2014

Accessing the caller information of a method in Java code

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Lars Vogel

Sometimes it is nice to access the caller of a method. Doing this is relatively simple, you can use the getStackTrace() method on the current thread. This returns the call stack in reverse order, e.g. the first element is the … Continue reading →

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Automatic error reporting for the Eclipse IDE

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Lars Vogel

Our friends from codetrails have developed an awesome tool to automatically report any error in the Eclipse IDE to the relevant Eclipse project. If you want to improve our IDE experience in the future I highly recommend installing this tool … Continue reading →

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vogella GmbH strengthens their Eclipse platform and IDE development commitment

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Lars Vogel

It is amazing how many quality contributions we received over the last months in the Eclipse platform project. For example 50 different people contributed source code to the Eclipse platform.ui project in the last 6 months. I’m proud to say … Continue reading →

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