Comments on: Java IDE Improvements, Top Eclipse Helios Feature #7

By: oblio

oblio — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:43:40 +0000

@Lars Vogel:
Some projects are at the Java 1.4 stage. The vast majority are based on Java 1.5. A select few are using Java 1.6.

6 months are nothing in the programming language/platform world. This is not the gaming industry

By: Luís Carlos Moreira da Costa

Luís Carlos Moreira da Costa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:04:12 +0000

Great post!

Thanks!

By: someone

someone — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:29:22 +0000

please please allow folding of comments and of regions (as of C#) .
this is a very good and simple feature to have, in order to simplify reading.

By: Ian Bull

Ian Bull — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:42:49 +0000

@keruke, My top 10 list are things that I know and use, and sadly, I don’t do a lot of web development. However, there is an entire project (a set of tools) at Eclipse called the: Web Tools Project. From what I understand, they have very good HTML, XHTML and XML editors. If you are interested in this you should try the Eclipse IDE for EE developers. I think this distribution has the editors you are looking for.

By: keruke

keruke — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:34:42 +0000

I have used eclipse and netbeans for java developing, I don’t why eclipse not have a good code formatting for xhtml and in general web pages.

Normally I use netbeans for web developing, I think that has a excelent code formatter for web pages, you can navigate from JSF EL expressions to backed beans and has a excelent code assist in the web developing. I don’t nkow why eclipse not has the same functionality and as far as I seen, the helios version not has any additional functions that help in web develop, but eclipse is excelent in debug perspective, but one again, I don’t know why the lack of functionality in the web pages, maybe I could not see the correct plugging or configuration but I thing that eclipse need a strong improve in the web developing.

Excuse me my english mistakes, and thank you very much for your post.

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:13:43 +0000

@ian The comment wrt Java7 is based on the 6 month delay. 6 months are a lot in the IT world.

By: florin

florin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:56:49 +0000

I’m an IDEA guy. Whenever I download Eclipse I get frustrated with the way it handles plugins. If I try the EE version, mylyn comes with it. I need to go through hoops to get rid of it. Why can’t one just click a button to uninstall plugins? Probably it’s been improved lately, yet this is one of the main reasons I decided to pay for my IDE rather than spend time with unnecessary configuration of the IDE or deleting jars from the plugins directory.

By: Ian Bull

Ian Bull — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:01 +0000

@florin: I’m not sure what you mean? There are several different ‘flavours’ or distributions of Eclipse. Many come with a pre-canned set of plugins (for example, the C/C++ one comes with the C Development Tools installed). If you just want the Eclipse SDK (no extra plugins at all), download the one called Eclipse Classic.

@Ralf. I think you can place the format on / off in both types of comments. It’s a good question, I’ll try this out.

By: Ralf Zahn

Ralf Zahn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:30:10 +0000

This is a nice feature, but I’m wondering that the format-on/off switch can be placed within Javadoc, because this text is parsed by the JDT and interpreted as part of the comment or part of a tag’s value within the AST.
Because formatting is only a responsibility within sources, it should only be possible within source comments that are ignored by the AST parser.

By: florin

florin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:18:24 +0000

Why does ecplise insists so madly that I should install/re-install mylyn? I really don’t need that clutter.