Posts tagged eclipse
Eclipse setup
Apr 3rd
Image from WikipediaI work with eclipse all day, so I’ve spent some time messing around with plugins. Lots and lots of plugins.
The plugins I’ve current stablized on is:
- Maven2 plugin: http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ (update-site: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/)
- PMD for static analysis of java code: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/integrations.html#eclipse (update-site: http://pmd.sf.net/eclipse )
- Findbugs for static analysis of java bytecode http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/eclipse.html (update-site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse/)
- Checkstyle for doing code the Right Way(tm). http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/ (update-site: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/update)
- EclEmma http://www.eclemma.org/ for junit codecoverage (update-site: http://update.eclemma.org/) Very nice to get a view of how much your tests cover your code. 50% should be possible right?
- SpringIDE for code completion in spring bean xml-files. Very very nice! http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringideInstall, (Update-site: http://springide.org/updatesite)
I use the code formatter extensively as possible. It’s very nice to get these things like a gift instead of spending time on wrapping lines and formatting by hand.
When using the codeformatter you really can benefit from “Save Actions“. The most timesaving feature for me so far. My setup currently includes all checkboxes, and a stack of additional action. No more time spent inserting spaces between ) and {
Good stuff!
For my sparetime project I’m currently exploring other plugins:
- Mercurial eclipse plugin: http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse (Update-site: http://www.vectrace.com/eclipse-update/)
- new Scala plugin : http://scala.sygneca.com/tools/eclipse
The mercurial plugin isn’t quite ready yet, but it’s getting there. Things are happening, and as the mail and website for the new scala plugin suggests that plugin isn’t quite there yet.
I dont mind, it gives you that pioneering feeling
If anybody should pop by and see this list, feel free to suggest all those nifty plugins I’m missing!
Happy coding
Running JMS tutorial examples in Eclipse without deploytool
Nov 9th
I’ve currently been reading up on JMS via the J2EE 1.4 tutorial. (Chapters 33 and 34). I use Eclipse J2EE.
The deploytool way of doing things annoyed me quite a bit. When I had to edit the /jms/simple/src/* code for the first example (remove the jupiter prefix used for the next example in the Connection Factories) I really wanted to use eclipse. But in Eclipse I needed to emulate all the magic that asant.bat and appclient.bat made to build the class-files and run the code. After lots and lots of browsing I found the jars I needed in my build (and run) path. I created an Application Client project for each of SimpleProducer, SimpleSyncConsumer and SimpleAsyncConsumer.
Each of these in the buildpath.
- C:\Sun\AppServer\lib\install\applications\jmsra\imqjmsra.jar
- C:\Sun\AppServer\lib\appserv-admin.jar
- C:\Sun\AppServer\lib\appserv-rt.jar
- C:\Sun\AppServer\imq\lib\imq.jar
besides from being created with the Sun Application Server 8.2 Default Configuration in the eclipse wizard. Here’s a .classpath
I also tried to emulate the deploytools .jars. To be able to create jars usable by appclient (and everything else) you need to manually fix the MANIFEST.MF. Set the Main-Class: to the right class. For examples like this for SimpleProducer:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: SimpleProducer