Category Archives: Eclipse

A tour through the Eclipse start-up options

I was tweaking the start-up options on Eclipse 3.1M6 on my PowerBook and I was curious what all these things meant. Some of these are Mac-only and some probably apply to all platforms. I welcome feedback on what other platforms … Continue reading

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How to get better memory settings for Eclipse on Mac OS X

In Eclipse 3.1M6, the default memory settings were increased. This was done by putting in the eclipse.ini file: -vmargs -Xms40m -Xmx256m This probably works on Windows, Linux, and other platforms, but not on the Mac. So when you launch 3.1M6 … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1M6 released!

Here’s where you can download 3.1M6. As always, it takes the mirrors a day or two to pick it up, so if your local mirror doesn’t have it, head over to the main Eclipse downloads area in Canada. I’d definitely … Continue reading

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Eclipse Easter Egg: Heap Monitor

Here is a nice little Easter Egg. OK, not exactly, since you do have to download it by itself. But it is written by the Platform UI Team and if Eclipse weren’t so darn pluggable, it probably would be included. … Continue reading

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Eclipse Mac tops 200 members!

The Eclipse Mac user group is now over 200 members strong. We started the group back on October 29th, 2004. We’ve added 81 members this month and there are still a few days until April, bringing the total membership up … Continue reading

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The state of Java on Mac OS X

James Duncan Davidson wrote about the state of Java on Mac OS X and I saw a comment that was dead-on: I agree Apple is focused more on server-side Java on the Mac, but keep in mind that there is … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.0.2 is out

Get it (Eclipse 3.0.2) while it’s hot! Not convinced yet? Consider that 3.0.2 contains 337 bug fixes. Note that it always takes a little while for it to propagate to the mirrors, so if your favorite mirror doesn’t have it, … Continue reading

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Yay – Kim’s got a blog!

Kim Horne, who gave a nice presentation on “Addressing UI Scalability in Eclipse” at EclipseCon 2005, has just started an Eclipse-focused blog, titled Kim’s Eclipse Musings. I enjoyed the session quite a bit due to her sense of humor. She … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.0.2 due on Wednesday

Eclipse 3.0.2, which contains 70 bug fixes over 3.0.1 will come out next Wednesday, March 23. It was originally scheduled to release today, but is being kept in the lab for a bit longer for a bit more testing. You … Continue reading

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The Eclipse revolution will be persisted (in a SQL database)

Eclipse seems like this big snowball rolling down the software industry hill, picking up code, contributors, and users as it rolls along. It has gotten much bigger in the past year and a good chunk of that snowball is SQL-flavored. … Continue reading

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