Category Archives: Eclipse

PHPEclipse and Smarty

Posted on February 16, 2013 by benjamin

Eclipse has become a powerful IDE for PHP development. As with most open source projects, eclipse provides multiple options how to use it with php and also how to work with smarty. The available options to work with smarty depends … Continue reading →

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Eclipse: Add a Simple Context Menu to Custom Viewer

Posted on December 17, 2012 by benjamin

Eclipse provides the capability to specify custom context menus and add them via extension points. Furthermore, it is possible to add a context menu to your self implemented viewer. There are several tutorials out there how this is done. However, … Continue reading →

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EMF External GenModel Reference Problem

Posted on December 7, 2012 by benjamin

If you are developing your own metamodel, EMF provides you the capability to reference elements from another meta model. Later, when you try to generate java code for your meta model and according edit and editor plugins, you might get … Continue reading →

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Jenkins/Buckminster/Emma NoSuchMethodError – Specify packages to instrument

Posted on October 19, 2012 by benjamin

The eclipse tool project provides the Buckminster project to automate the build process for eclipse plugins, features and update sites. The jenkins continuous integration server also provides a plugin to integrate buckminster into the automated build process. A good continuous … Continue reading →

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Talk at VKSI Sneak Preview

Posted on October 19, 2012 by benjamin

Last week I gave a talk about the Eclipse MoDisco project. It was about an overview what the project provides in the context of software modernization. However, it lead to interesting discussion about what is possible with the infrastructure and … Continue reading →

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Eclipse: Raise PermSize in Run Configuration

Posted on October 10, 2012 by benjamin

One of the first things I do when working with eclipse is to raise the allocated memory. This will make eclipse running more smoothly. However, when developing eclipse plugins and applications you might have faced an OutOfMemoryException because of your … Continue reading →

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Logging in Eclipse Plugins with JUnit Support

Posted on August 10, 2012 by benjamin

Logging can be used for a lot of different of use cases, ranging from debug messages during development upto application monitoring in production. In the past, log4j was set as a de facto standard, slf4j and the java internal java.util.logging … Continue reading →

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EMF: Load Model with eProxyURI References

Posted on April 5, 2012 by benjamin

The Eclipse EMF persistence framework enables you to store your model into separate Resources combined in a ResourceSet. This makes absolutely sense e.g. for large models or conceptual separated model parts. By simply initializing a resource set and loading the … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Buckminster: SVN repository path does not match plugin id

Posted on March 30, 2012 by benjamin

The buckminster project provides a great infrastructure to build your eclipse plugin. Especially in combination with a continous integration server (e.g. Jenkins) it works pretty smoothly. It works best if you created your plugin projects according to specific best practices. … Continue reading →

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EMF: Reference Model provided by an installed Plugin

Posted on February 17, 2012 by benjamin

While modeling and ecore-based model with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, you might want to reference an existing model. To do this, you can simply right-click on your model in the tree editor and choose “load resource”. Or when your are … Continue reading →

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