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Eclipse 4.7 M2 is out with a focus on usability

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Lars Vogel

Eclipse 4.7 M2 is out with a focus on usability. From simplified filter functionality in the Problems, Bookmark and Task view, improved color usage for popups, simplified editor assignments for file extensions, enhancements of quick access, a configurable compare direction … Continue reading →

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Out-of-office settings for Eclipse Bugzilla and Gerrit

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Lars Vogel

As I got several requests how to show an “Out-of-office” in Gerrit and Bugzilla, I documented this in the Eclipse Platform Contribution tutorial. Have fun.

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Getting rid of ugliness in the Eclipse IDE

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Lars Vogel

Continuing our work to make the Eclipse IDE nicer we also removed some “weird things of the past” in our default styling. Thanks to Patrik Suzzi for removing the yellow underline in the Mac theme (why did we have a … Continue reading →

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Making the Eclipse IDE prettier on Windows

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Lars Vogel

My company is starting a new customer project for which I have to the Windows OS. I noticed that the main toolbar styling looks really bad due to its inconsistent usage of colors for the perspective switcher and the main … Continue reading →

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“Run in Background” now activated by default in Eclipse 4.7

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Lars Vogel

I use Android Studio for Android development and its frequent popups for its tasks, made me realized that our Eclipse option to run jobs in the background is a real gem. After a short discussion, we decided to activate that … Continue reading →

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OSGi Component Testing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In my last blog post I talked about Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services. In this blog post I want to show how to test OSGi service components. Unit testing / “white-box testing” The first approach for testing components is … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In the last weeks I worked intensively on getting a deeper knowledge in OSGi declarative services. I use them for a while with Eclipse 4, but never had a deep understanding of everything. Well, basically it is not that complicated at … Continue reading →

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Helping WindowBuilder

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Lars Vogel

The WindowBuilder project had resource issues. I’m happy to announce that WB has now a working Tycho build. Simply clone the WB repo and use ‘mvn clean verify’ command to build WB. The result is afterwards located in org.eclipse.windowbuilder/org.eclipse.wb.releng.updatesite/target/repository WindowBuilder … Continue reading →

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No more tragedy of the commons for Platform UI

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Lars Vogel

Remember than people spoke about the tragedy of the commons for the Eclipse platform? I think it save to say that these times are over for Platform UI. I think we see in Platform UI the hard work we put … Continue reading →

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Using CompletableFuture in your Eclipse RCP application

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Lars Vogel

If you want to update your RCP application asynchronously you can use Java 8 CompletableFutures. For example the following starts an CompletableFuture and uses the getData method to read the data and calls afterwards the updateTable method. I would be nice if … Continue reading →

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