Category Archives: Eclipse

All Eclipse related posts

Control OSGi DS Component Instances via Configuration Admin

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

While trying to clean up the OSGi services in the Eclipse Platform Runtime I came across the fact that singleton service instances are not always feasible. For example the fact that the localization is done on application level does not work … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirk Fauth, Eclipse, Java, OSGi | 1 Comment

Control OSGi DS Component Instances

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

I recently came across some use cases where a more fine grained control is needed for component instance creation. I spent some time in investigating how this is done with OSGi Declarative Services in detail. It turned out that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirk Fauth, Eclipse, Java, OSGi | 2 Comments

Dependency injection for Eclipse 3.x views available for Eclipse 4.7 M3

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Lars Vogel

You can now use dependency injection (di) in your Eclipse 3.x. views.You can enable this for a view via the new inject flag in the org.eclipse.ui.views extension. public class SampleView extends ViewPart { @Inject IWorkbench workbench; private TableViewer viewer; @Override … Continue reading →

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Comments Off on Dependency injection for Eclipse 3.x views available for Eclipse 4.7 M3

Configuring OSGi Declarative Services

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In my blog post about Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services I provided an introduction to OSGi declarative services. How to create them, how they behave at runtime, how to reference other services, and so on. But I left out … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirk Fauth, Eclipse, OSGi, Other | 9 Comments

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 →

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Comments Off on Eclipse 4.7 M2 is out with a focus on usability

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.

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Tagged | Comments Off on Out-of-office settings for Eclipse Bugzilla and Gerrit

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 →

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Comments Off on Getting rid of ugliness in the Eclipse IDE

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 →

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Comments Off on Making the Eclipse IDE prettier on Windows

“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 →

Posted in Eclipse, Lars Vogel | Comments Off on “Run in Background” now activated by default in Eclipse 4.7

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 →

Posted in Dirk Fauth, Eclipse, Java, OSGi | Comments Off on OSGi Component Testing