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First step after installing Eclipse
Do you know what you should do, immediatly after installing Eclipse ? Setting your file ecnoding charset : by default, Eclipse uses cp1252, wihch is not quite ideal if you have to deal with internationalisation and character manipulation in your datas with differents charset. Just go to the window- preferences menu and…
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Design Patterns Quick Reference (and others)
Ever wanted a poster of Design Patterns ? Here is one for free on Jason McDonald’s blog. You can also find many useful poster or "Refcardz" on dzone.com. The Design Patterns one is also made by Jason. ou’ll find others on Java, Netbeans, eclipse or others.…
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Debugging in Eclipse vs Netbeans
This subject was suggested when talking about Eclipse and Netbeans at work. The question was does Netbeans implements hot code replace (HCR or hot method replace). As this feature is available since JDK 1.4.x, it should be possible under Netbeans, the Sun IDE. First, what is HCR ? The…
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VisualEditor (Eclipse) vs Matisse (Netbeans)
Writing my precedent post, I decided to take back a look at VE. So I installed last version (1.4) of VE on my 3.4 eclipse. So, is VE up to Matisse features ? The response is quickly given : No ! VE does not give you the rapid placement of components…
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Eclipse or Netbeans ?
When developing with Java, one of the first question is what IDE to used. As I have worked with Eclipse and netbeans, I’ll give my feedback on them. Both are good at editing source code (fortunately). There’s no major difference on basic tasks to develop an…