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Chris Aniszczyk post an article abour the recently released Eclipse Ganymed. This article covers the following topics:
Getting Ganymede
The projects
The showcase
Contest
Conclusion
Wayne Beaton post an article in whixh he show how apply the Adapter pattern in Eclipse. Here's the list of topics discussed in this article.
Introduction
Using the Properties View
Introducing Adapters
Decoupling with Adapters
Adapting
Conclusion
Source: Eclipse Corner Article.
Brian Joyce post an article in which he shows how toto integrate your PDE unit tests into an Ant based automated build, using a simple Eclipse plug-in as an example, some simple java classes, basic Eclipse plug-in techniques and some standard Ant tasks. Herethe short table of contents ofthis article:
Introduction
Prerequisites
Running PDE Unit Tests in Ant
PDE Test Utilities (pde.test.utils)
Conclusion
Source: Eclipse Corner Articles.
Noel Rappin post the first part of tutorial about devrloping application for Iphone with Ruby On Rails and Eclipse. This tutorial covers the following topics:
Setting up your environment
Serving iPhone content
Detecting Mobile Safari users
Viewing iPhone content during development
Creating an iPhone layout
Opting in and out
Summary and look ahead
Resources
Source: IBM developerWorks.
Nathan Good post a new article about Eclipse IDE. In this article Nathan telling about various Eclipse distribution and gives some advices how to choose the right distribution fot you needs. He writes:
«Which Eclipse distribution is right for you? Commercial distributions (distros)based on Eclipse Europa offer different features and conveniences. Many commercial ones also offer free or community editions to download and use. This article compares the CodeGear JBuilder 2008 Turbo trial version, nexB EasyEclipse, IBM's Europa bundles, and Innoopract's Yoxo On Demand distros — all of which allow you to download a prepackaged, customized version of Eclipse Europa, and many of which already contain the plug-ins and tools you need to start working right away. »
You can read the full version of article on IBM developerWorks site
Nathan Good post an article in which he tells about building the PHP web-services with the PDT - IDE for PHP development based on Eclipse. The PDT project was unveiled in September 2007 and was followed by V1.0.2 in January 2008. The PDT project provides first-class abilities to edit, debug, and deploy PHP applications in the Eclipse IDE.
Source: IBM developerWorks.
The NetBeans IDE 6.1 release provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, tighter MySQL integration, and an improved way of sharing libraries among dependent projects. The acclaimed support for Ruby/JRuby has been enhanced with new editor quick fixes, a Ruby platform manager, fast debug support for JRuby, and many other new features and fixes.
By popular demand, the bean pattern and JSF CRUD generation features that were missing in the 6.0 release have returned. In addition, early versions of new modules, such as ClearCase support, are available as plugins.
This release also provides improved performance, especially faster startup (up to 40%), lower memory consumption and improved responsiveness while working with large projects.
Source: NetBeans.
There is a large article about creating database web application with Eclipse. Here's the short list of topics disscussed in this article:
Getting Started with Derby
Creating a Derby Database
Creating a Web Project
Writing the Application
Testing the Application
Letting Users Leave Feedback
Summary
Source: Eclipse Articles Corner.
There is an intresting article about integrating EMF and GMF generated editors posted on Eclipse Corner Site by Volker Wegert and Alex Shatalin. Here's a brief tableee of contents of this article:
Introduction
Setting the Stage
Upgrading the Editing Domain
Extending the Editor Input
Dissecting the EMF Editor
Selection Handling
Combining the Editors
Taming the Properties
Completing Menus and Toolbars
Fixing Edit Menu Actions
Creating the Diagram
Fixing the Resource Navigator
Want some RCP with that?
Miscellaneous Notes
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Desktop application developers — using Java, C++, or any similar language — are accustomed to being able to choose from a number of powerful integrated development environments (IDEs), each of which typically brings together the functionality of a programmer's editor, a source-level debugger, source code management, a built-in FTP client, and more. As with any robust tool, these IDEs can take some getting used to, and a fair amount of time to thoroughly learn all of their features.
There is intresting tutorial posted on a devX.com site about developing with Ruby on Rails and NetBeans. This aricle contains a lot of links and useful tips.. Here's a short table of content of this tutorial:
What You Need
Leveraging NetBeans 6.0 Ruby and Rails Support
Techniques for Efficient Rails App Deployment
Installing and Configuring the nginx Proxy and Web Server

There is a n intresting article about plugin development for Eclipse posted on IBM developerWork site. This article describing all basic concepts of Eclipse plugin development with lot of screenshots and practical examples. Here's the short table of contents of this tutorial:
Preparation for development.
Modification
Extensions and extension points
Runtime
Dependencies
Source editors
Externalizing strings
Organizing manifests

Two months ago we wrote about new Rich Client platform released by Eclipse. Today you can view some very intrestng screencastd about it with Jochen:
The developerWorks posted an intresting tutorial about developing SOA with eclipse tools. Here is brief review of this tutorial:
Usually under project several men work. And to track what changes have been made very difficult. Sure if you are not using some control version system like cvs or svn. I want to explain how to use Eclipse with CVS.
So, step by step
1. Create New CVS project and then click Next


2. Choose 'Create a new repository location' and click Next
