Tag Archives: Eclipse

Running JBoss Tools in Eclipse 3.6, Helios

With the release of a new version of Eclipse, its natural to download it and start using it straight away.  One of the main problems doing this however, is that plugins aren’t always guaranteed to work with the new version … Continue reading

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Making Eclipse Fly

When compared to NetBeans, I find that Eclipse is a lot slower, particularly when doing enterprise development.  To try and speed Eclipse up, I’ve taken the JVM settings that NetBeans uses and applied them to Eclipse.  The result is a … Continue reading

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JBoss Tools – Your new best friend

Earlier this week, JBoss Tools 3 was released. If you use any JBoss related technologies (AS, Seam, Hibernate, jBPM etc.) or write web applications, then you should be using JBoss Tools as the productivity increase could be very high for … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.2 – I don’t think so

With the recent release of Eclipse 3.2 and the Calisto release of 10 Eclipse projects, I thought I would give Eclipse a try. I’ve not used Eclipse in anger since the 2.x days, however I’ve used it on an off … Continue reading

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Eclipse support for J2SE 5.0

Eclipse 3.1 M4 supports J2SE5.0 and confirms when you create a project if you want to use Java 5.0 compliance. This is a welcome addition as Eclipse 3.0 only supports up to Java 1.4.

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