Tag Archives: Eclipse

Modify heap size for Eclipse on OSX

By Gene De Lisa | Published: August 7, 2011

I recently tried to load a sample IRS 1120 tax return in XML format (Example_TransmissionWithConsolidatedReturn.xml in their schema distribution) into the Eclipse XML editor. I shouldn’t need to tell you that the IRS schemas are quite complex. The “simple” return was over 12MB! After a lot of heaving, Eclipse just punted and complained about running [...]

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Maven plugin for Eclipse

By Gene De Lisa | Published: July 23, 2008

The m2Eclipse plugin has been accepted into the Eclipse Foundation.  Perhaps this will push development along. Already there is a ton of new features in the current release – along with decent documentation! Thanks! The update site at codehaus is still alive but it looks like the new versions will be at http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/ and for [...]

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Running your first JavaFX program in Eclipse

By Gene De Lisa | Published: January 18, 2008

There is a plugin for Eclipse for developing JavaFX. The official installation instructions are ok to a point. You do get the plugin installed. But then what? I hope to save you a bit of time with this post. Create a new Java project. You don’t have to add anything to the classpath. I have [...]

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Europa woes with JPA and Dali

By Gene De Lisa | Published: July 6, 2007

I was looking forward to the Europa Eclipse release. There are nice things included. But,… For an all-in-one jee download you also had to go to the update manager to download DTP “enablement” to do anything. Poor out-of-the-box experience right away. After updating and rebooting I get this in a dialog box after the “resynching” [...]

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Eclipse batch formatting

By Gene De Lisa | Published: April 4, 2007

You can format your code using Eclipse. I know, control shift F. But did you know you can format your code using Eclipse from a script/batch file? Export your formatting options to an xml file first then write a batch file that looks something like this: java -cp $ECLIPSE_HOME/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -noupdate -application org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCodeFormatter -config format.config.xml [...]

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Run hsqldb from Eclipse

By Gene De Lisa | Published: March 7, 2006

Introduction You may be running HSQLDB from an ANT script or a batch file. You can create an Eclipse run configuration to start and stop the HSQLDB server from within Eclipse. As a bonus when you export your project ANT scripts there will be a target created to run the server from ANT. Project Setup [...]

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