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Eclipse Tips: using the Source menu
Everyone knows – or at least suspects – that most of the Eclipse goodies live under the Refactoring menu. However, there’s also a lot of goodness under the Source menu too.
In this quick tip, I’m using another example from my little Java TDD course, demonstrating how to quickly write an immutable value type using a bunch of those Source menu items.
Eclipse Tips: Quick Fix to generate code
Here’s another in my nascent series of quick tips for Eclipse. This one shows how you can use Eclipse’s quick fix feature (ctrl+1) to quickly generate code.
To demonstrate it, I’ve actually used one of the exercises from my little Java TDD course, so if you watch it you’ll learn a little about Hamcrest matchers, too 
Eclipse Tips: Extract Local Variable
When I teach my little Java TDD course, I quite often do live coding demos …especially if we’re running behind schedule and I want to catch up; I’ll skip an exercise and work through the solution. And one of the remarks I often get at the end is “thanks for the course, but what I also found useful was learning about how to use Eclipse effectively”.
Well, I guess I have used Eclipse for over 10 years now, so I suppose I am reasonably familiar with it. So I thought I’d show some of these tips by way of a series of screencasts.
The first one in the series is nice and simple: the “Extract Local Variable” refactoring, and its corollary, “Inline Variable”; something I use an awful lot when working on Apache Isis codebase. You’ll find it just below…
Giving up on Eclipse Juno
In my last blog I posted about my Eclipse 4.2 Juno setup; as much as a reference for me in case I needed to do a reinstall as anything else.
What I didn’t talk about then was the issues I’ve been having generally with Juno. Read the rest of this entry
Eclipse Juno JEE Setup
My installation of Eclipse Juno seemed to have got its knickers in rather a twist, so just spent a “happy” hour reinstalling the damn thing.
Anyway, here’s what my setup currently consists of:
