I'm trying to develop a plugin in Java for Eclipse. For this, I want to use the built-in tool used for comparing files.
I found some help in eclipse wiki (https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_create_a_compare_editor%3F) but it seems not enougth for a developpement since there are lot of empties in explanation.
I also found this but there is no implementation or use sample to understand how it's work.
What I want is to show the compare tool view inside a plugin to manage some merges in a list of files.
I'm currently work on Neon.1 Release (4.6.1) of Eclipse on Windows 7 with Java 1.6.
Any kind of help will be apreciate.
Thanks.
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I'm using Eclipse Luna (64Bit) and I have to develop a System, which can manage several Plug-In's. The Plug-In's must be included at Runtime dynamically and I've read, that it is possible to do this with the OSGi-Framework. In Eclipse I started to implement some Example Plugin-Projects and now I want to include them into an another Eclipse Java-Project but thats over my head till now.
Is there a solution for this problem anyway or do I have to use another Framework?
Thanks for all answers!
Are you trying to write a plug-in for Eclipse or create your own plugin management system? If the latter, I'd suggest that you use OSGi as the basis instead of re-inventing the wheel. There's lots of good documentation on the 'net about how to do that.
What type of developer are each of these IDEs aimed at? Is one IDE a superset/subset of the other? What can I do using one and not the other?
I'm looking to do mostly desktop based (Windows) work for now so I believe I am correct in ignoring the Java EE download and focusing on these two.
The comparison of features page isn't helpful as I'm still new to Eclipse and Java. For example "Code Recommenders Developer Tools" means nothing to me yet.
Eclipse standard has been downloaded 1.7 million times and is 246MB (as at 7-Sep-13). While Eclipse IDE for Java developers has been downloaded 430,000 times and is 151MB.
So I'm guessing Eclipse Standard is the way to go, but why do they offer the second option?
All the other answers are more or less true, but miss the point (in my opinion), The download page states it clearly:
Eclipse Standard ...
The Eclipse Platform, and all the tools needed to develop and debug it
versus
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers ...
The essential tools for any Java developer, including a Java IDE, a CVS client, Git client, XML Editor, Mylyn, Maven integration...
So if your focus is to develop for Eclipse itself, the Eclipse Standard includes all what you need (including the sources of all features and plugins).
If your focus is Java development (not Eclipse plugins), you should start with the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.
If your focus is Java EE development, it is simpler to start with Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers and so forth ...
The comparison page could certainly use some links, nevertheless a quick web search will tell you all about those plugin.
For your needs, you might look into the "for Java Developers" package, as it contains WindowBuilder, which let's you define GUIs visually in several frameworks.
(Code Recommenders is also nice, but I've personally found it a bit hit-or-miss)
However, you're fine installing any of the packages either way, since you can always install the plugins you need later on. My recommendation is to simply read about those plugins and make an informed decision on what you should install.
If you're doing GUI work then you might choose the Java Developers package as it comes with WindowBuilder.
Other similar questions are:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7835305/what-are-my-options-for-developing-a-gui-in-java-in-eclipse
Best GUI designer for eclipse?
Create GUI using Eclipse (Java)
The difference between the eclipse downloads are just the pre-installed plug-ins.
I'd go with standard and install the plug-ims i want, but take what fits you.
Can anybody point me to Netbeans plugins that help do better code?
I hope to find some plugins that do Java code review and search for:
bug patters
duplicate code
and other types of vulnerabilities.
Thanks!
Install EasyPMD from the plugin portal. http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/33246/easypmd-2-1
How about Findbugs.
Never used it with Netbeans (only with HudsonBuilder), but some Google results state that there is a plugin for NB.
Several of the PMD and Findbugs rules (suggested by others) are already part of the regular "Hints" of Netbeans. By enabling more than the standard set of hints, you can already get some good "programming advices" without having to install anything.
(But they are by no means a complete replacement for PMD or Findbugs)
There is an article about integrating plugins you could try to follow that (I haven't yet), but from my experience sadly in IDE tools never work as well as the commandline versions.
I would recommend you instead use Maven as your build tool and add the Cobertura, FindBugs, PMD, and CheckStyle plugins that will produce reports whenever you compile your code. Not as handy, but you will still get good feedback.
Also, this means that they will be equally available for people working on your code base with other IDEs. If you use a continuous integration server like Jenkins and it will create a report using any tool you'd like whenever you check-in code.
And this is speaking as someone who prefers NetBeans over Eclipse.
I have already developped a Java project using Eclipse.
Now I would like to integrate an help system to allow the user to open a guide.
Browsing other questions i found this tutorial to set up Eclipse environment in order to use the Eclipse Help System. Anyway, this tutorial and all documentation I found since now, only explain how to use this system creating a new plugin project.
But what about if I want simply add the help system to an existing Java Project created in Eclipse IDE?
Which step should I follow to update my project configuration?
Is it possible to integrate Eclipse Help system, without using eclipse?
No, the help system you point to is an eclipse plugin based system, useful with RCP programs. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/RCP It will only run in the context of an RCP application.
You might be able to write an RCP app that contains only help, launch it, and communicate with it through http from your java app, but it's not a simple integration ... and you still have to build your help documents so that org.eclipse.ui.help can see them.
Netbeans seems to say in several places that it supports a library to just host the "Netbeans editor" widget in some other program. It has some weird documentation that seems to say a lot, but doesn't really say much about how to use it: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-editor-lib2/architecture-summary.html
I can't seem to find any download for the "Netbeans editor library" (1 or 2), and the documentation they provide says to download the entire mercurial repository, which doesn't really help me, since it doesn't tell me what is part of this "library" and what is not.
If someone could point me to a download for this library, or some minimal documentation about how to use it, that would be great. I've already seen the blog post here, but it doesn't really help with getting the library, and it seems to be talking about classes which I can't find in the Netbeans sources I downloaded (Maybe a different version?)
The NetBeans editor is part of the NetBeans platform and thus is part of either NetBeans IDE itself or the separate platform download.
The platform itself can be downloaded from here: http://platform.netbeans.org/platform-get.html
But I'm not sure if you can use a platform module outside a platform application. If that should be possible it most probably will be a very complicated thing to do.
You might want to have a look at this article:
http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-htmleditor.html which explains how to create a standalone HTML editor based on the NetBeans platform by simply customizing the platform.