Ernst Van der Linden pointed me out to a great eclipse plugin to use when using ColdBox's Internationalization features. This plugin is the Eclipse Resource Bundles Plugin

This is an incredible plugin that will help you work with multi-language resource bundles right from within eclipse. I Include the Attessor tool with ColdBox to facilitiate the usage of resource bundles, but this tool takes the cake.

• It shows the property keys as a list or as a tree
• It shows all the available locales at the same time
• You can easily see multi-language translations at one time
• Change languages with ease
• New Language wizard that will blow your mind
• If founds missed keys in any locale and displays a warning icon.
• It saves the keys grouped, in alphabetical order and with the equal signs aligned.
• It escapes Unicode characters that are not inside the ASCII subset. Example: C\u00F3digo postal for Código postal.
• It founds duplicate property values.
• Much More...

I have been experiencing some odd behavior on Eclipse 3.3.1 when refreshing folders within a project that exists in a mapped drive. The following is a screenshot of the error:

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I have been running through a very tedious problem, where all of a sudden when I refresh my navigator view on projects that are on network drives, they dissapear. I hit refresh, they appear and dissapear again. This behavior is constant and on several machines. Has anybody been affected by this?? I also turned auto refresh off and still same behavior. Sometimes I have to be restarting eclipse in order to get good behavior.

If anybody has gone through this and knows of a fix or a setting to help out, please comment.

This is just a call for comments to see which eclipse SVN plugin people are using and why?

I personally use Subversive because it was the first choice that I found and it has worked great. I am running 1.1.0.M3 It is easy to integrate to repositories, browse, check out, etc.

• What do you like of Subeclipse?
• How would they contrast each other?
• Which one do you prefer?
• What are the advantages?

If you have any comments, please post them.

I found these tutorials for Callisto on Eclipse that are very nice and can help any newbie setup eclipse and some great plugins and features.

Go to:

http://www.eclipse.org/callisto/java.php 

You will see them on the right hand side. They have tutorials on

• Installing Eclipse SDK 3.2
• Installing Features from the Callisto Discovery Site
• Installing and using the Eclipse Visual Editor
• Installing and Using the Eclipse Web Tools
• Installing BIRT (Reporting)

I just viewed them all and find them pretty great!!

 

Has anybody experienced errors when trying to open a file through the RDS plugin?? I have, and don't know why. Here is a screenshot of the error with the Error Log open so you can see the errors. Please let me know if this is my error or a bug.

This is a simple entry, mainly directed so I never forget, but it might be useful to eclipse newbies. If you need to see the eclipse IDE error log all you need to do is the following:

1) Click on the Plugin-in Development Perspective

2) Click on the Error Window tab

WALLA!!!

 You can also reach it by going to Window >> Show View >> PDE Runtime >> Error Log

Hope this helps 

For any eclipse newbie, you will find out that all the plugins you download or update will be placed by you or the update manager in the eclipse install folder under the plugins directory. However, when updating comes around or removing or any kind of update, it is a hassle to manage it.  That is why you can create multiple plugin extension directories in order to facillitate plugin management.  I have attached a simple zip file with the correct format of an extension directory.

It basically contains the following structure:

+MyPlugins (Dir)
|--+eclipse (Dir)
    |--features (Dir)
    |--plugins (Dir)
    |--.eclipseextension

The .eclipseextension is a text file that contains the following:

 id=org.eclipse.platform
name=Eclipse Platform
version=3.1.0

You now have a succesfull extension directory.  You now can go to eclipse to add it.

1) Open Eclipse

2) Click on Help ==> Manage Configuration

3) Click on Add An Extension Location:

4)  Choose your directory

 

5) Restart your workbench

6) You are set and dandy!! Ready to roll!!

 

Hope this works for you. I have also a testing eclipse extension folder, so I can drop and test new plugins without affecting my workbench.

I just found this interesting note, that the new version of Eclipse will be based on the Netbeans Platform.

This is great news, since it will move Eclipse to the SWING standard and plus: Netbeans Platforms kicks butt!!

Here is a short snippet of the article, but you can read it at the following address

Eclipse Article on Netbeans

Code named "NetClipse", the next version of Eclipse is tentatively scheduled for summer 2007. "NetClipse will be based on the NetBeans Platform," according to new director Tim Cramer, who will continue to serve as the director of Java Tools at Sun. The Eclipse Foundation management will be restructured to resemble the Java Community Process (JCP) with Sun holding a permanent position on the board.

I know everybody is posting about this, but I need to do it too. Adobe labs just posted the Eclipse RDS support and this is absolutely great. The migration to eclipse is finally over.

Here is the link to it: http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion/Flex_Connectivity:Eclipse_RDS_Support

Here is their description:

Remote Development Services (RDS) lets you access files and data sources registered in the ColdFusion Administrator on a ColdFusion server. You must enable RDS during the installation process. With Eclipse RDS Support, you can use CFEclipse as your IDE and access ColdFusion files remotely.

Eclipse RDS Support is supported on all ColdFusion server platforms.

I will be installing it soon, so I will let you know how it goes.

UPDATE

The link to RDS is confusing. You need to go here Link

You need to go to the Flex Builder 2.0 Beta 2 downloads and download the following:

Download ColdFusion Extensions to Flex Builder 2.0 (ZIP, 1.8 MB)

You then extract it and move it to your eclipse plugins directory.