Help → Install new Software → Switch to the Kepler Repository → General Purpose Tools → Marketplace Client If you use Eclipse Luna SR 1, the released Marketplace contains a bug; you have to install it from the Marketplace update site. This is fixed again in Luna SR 2. Marketplace update site: Luna – http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/luna … Read more
To change background colour Open menu *Windows → Preferences → General → Editors → Text Editors Browse Appearance color options Select background color options, uncheck default, change to black Select background color options, uncheck default, change to colour of choice To change text colours Open Java → Editor → Syntax Colouring Select element from Java … Read more
In Visual Studio and most other half decent IDEs you can simply do SHIFT+TAB. It does the opposite of just TAB. I would think and hope that the IDEs you mention support this as well.
It is a bug in Eclipse. I had exactly the same problem, also on Ubuntu with Eclipse Java EE Juno. Here is the workaround that worked for me: Close Eclipse In {workspace-directory}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings delete the following two files: org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs Restart Eclipse Source: eclipse.org Forum
This is a fairly comprehensive list from the Eclipse documentation. If anyone knows of another list — maybe with more details, or just the most common icons — feel free to add it. Latest: JDT Icons 2019-06: JDT Icons 2019-03: JDT Icons 2018-12: JDT Icons 2018-09: JDT Icons Photon: JDT Icons Oxygen: JDT Icons Neon: … Read more
The quick and dirty way: Right click on a folder, go to properties, and mark a folder as derived. Derived entities are excluded from searching by default. The problem with this approach is that Eclipse “forgets” that the folder is derived if you delete it (either from within Eclipse or externally, followed by refreshing the … Read more
It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user.name variable either at your command line, or using the eclipse.ini file in your eclipse install root directory. This seems to work fine for me: -showsplash org.eclipse.platform –launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256M -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Duser.name=Davide Inglima -Xms40m -Xmx512m Update: http://morlhon.net/blog/2005/09/07/eclipse-username/ is a dead link… Here’s a new … Read more
You can enable this in Window – Preferences – General – Workspace – Refresh Automatically (called Refresh using native hooks or polling in newer builds) The only reason I can think why this isn’t enabled by default is performance related. For example, refreshing source folders automatically might trigger a build of the workspace. Perhaps some … Read more
If you mean “change workspace” go to File -> Switch Workspace
Eclipse will by default try to launch with the default “java.exe” (the first one referenced by your PATH) Three things to remember: “Installing” a JRE or a JDK can be as simple as unzipping or copying it from another computer: there is no special installation steps, and you can have as many different JVM versions … Read more