Tag Archives: IDE

When running a Maven build with many plugins (e.g. the jOOQ or Flyway plugins), you may want to have a closer look under the hood to see what’s going on internally in those plugins, or in your extensions of those plugins. This may not appear obvious when you’re running Maven from the command line, e.g. via: C:\Users\jOOQ\workspace>mvn clean install Luckily, ...

Upcoming Docker Tooling for Eclipse gave a preview of Docker Tooling coming in Eclipse. This Tech Tip will show how to get started with it. NOTE: This is pretty bleeding edge and so some of the features may be half baked. But we are looking for all the feedback! The Docker tooling is aimed at providing at minimum the same basic level ...

Although IntelliJ IDEA has en excellent Maven integration, it doesn not recognize file references or file links in the output of Maven commands. One such generator of file links is checkstyle which generates an output like this:                 Now our live would be a lot easier, if we could just click on the ...

One of the more frustrating things about Eclipse–at least for some users–is that Eclipse doesn’t come with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Eclipse is itself a Java application, it needs a JRE to run. The intellectual property rules at Eclipse prevent us from including a JRE with the downloads, so you have to go and install one yourself. If you ...

Who doesn’t know them. The good old JFace dialogs in Eclipse that give you a visual representation of what is really a rather simple XML or properties file. In the case of m2e, it looks like this:                 Unfortunately, this screen is a bit slow to load, and it doesn’t offer much value ...

Comparing Sublime and Github’s Atom in 10 major categories Sublime has been the undisputed text editing champion for a while now. But a new contender – GitHub’s Atom – is stepping into the spotlight, making noise and trying to steal the not-so-old champion’s thunder. Some 30 versions after the release of Atom’s beta, we felt it would be a good time to test these two head-to-head. On ...

You wouldn’t believe it until you try it yourself. I’ve been using the Eclipse Mars developer milestones lately, and I’ve been having some issues with slow compilation. I always thought it was because of the m2e integration, which has never been famous for working perfectly. But then, it dawned upon me when I added a JPA persistence.xml file to run ...

When I made the switch from .NET to Java, I naturally had to switch IDEs. With moving to Java, I chose Eclipse. I was fortunate to have a great group of coworkers that took time out of their schedule to share shortcuts and tips to allow me to utilize Eclipse to the fullest extent. One of the first shortcuts I ...

As a long time Eclipse user, I want to give a more serious look to IntelliJ IDEA. The people from JetBrains were very nice and granted me an open source license for the Podcastpedia.org  and Codingpedia.org projects. In the post I listed some of the things I use often in Eclipse and their equivalent in IntelliJ. I wrote this post so I ...