Peter Nehrer
15 articles
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Don’t Let Bugs Get Lost Without Trace
The ability to trace your program's execution may prove invaluable when you are trying to hunt down an elusive problem. Although the Eclipse Java...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Making a Good First Impression
Eclipse Tip: Making a Good First Impression
In the business world, few will question the importance of a good first impression. The initial encounter with...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Customize Your Feature Installation with Install Handlers
When developing an Eclipse RCP-based application, you get to decide how to install
it into the end-user's environment;
Eclipse does not force you into using any...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Use Optional Plug-in Dependencies to Support Diverse Runtime Environments
The Eclipse runtime is a dynamic environment composed of numerous plug-ins, or bundles, running in an OSGi-compliant framework (Equinox). The OSGi Alliance aims to...
Data & Java
Eclipse Tip: Define Custom Content Types to Identify Your Data Files
In desktop environments, the typical approach for identifying a file's content is to check its extension. You're familiar with the myriad of three-letter extensions...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Create Rich User Interfaces with the HTML Browser Widget
Anyone involved in developing web-based applications can attest to the importance
of their visual appeal. As users, we have become quite accustomed to seeing nice-looking
web...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Use Extension Tracker to Write Dynamic-Aware Plug-ins
If you ever developed an Eclipse plug-in, chances are you had to implement an "extension" to plug your functionality into the Workbench. In fact,...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: Use the Execution Environment to Create Portable Java Projects
In Eclipse, creating Java projects is easy—you invoke the New Java Project wizard, enter the new project's name, click Finish, and you're done. If...
Enterprise Java
Eclipse Tip: How to Live on the Cutting Edge
The Eclipse Foundation's download servers
barely cooled off after the Callisto release,
and the first milestone build of the next Eclipse version (3.3M1) is already...
Java
Programming the Eclipse Workbench
What makes Eclipse applications most easily recognizable is the
Workbench. It is the foundation of applications such as the Eclipse IDE
— the main window contains...