Shortly after the release of Eclipse 3.4, Instantiations released version 6.7.0 of their Eclipse based Java GUI design toolset WindowBuilder Pro. Version 6.7.0 includes the following components:
Swing Designer 6.7
SWT Designer 6.7
GWT Designer 5.0 (despite the release notes claiming it contains 4.0.0)
New features
The most important feature of this release is that WindowBuilder Pro 6.7 now fully [...]
Max Anderson has an interesting article describing tips on how to make Eclipse look better on Linux.
As he demonstrates via screenshots, Eclipse under GTK and Linux uses by default a larger font and much more space between elements.
Systemwide GTK+ settings
By shrinking the font sizes and the spacing between the elements, you can make the Eclipse [...]
Instantiations have released version 6.5.0 of WindowBuilder Pro their Eclipse based Java GUI builder. The new & noteworthy page describes some of the improvements available in this new version.
WindowBuilder Pro supports not only standard Swing GUIs but Eclipse’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT).
One of my favourite features of WindowBuilder’s [...]
I came across a great blog entry describing some tips and tricks for debugging in Eclipse. Tips include how to make variable inspection much simpler using a debug detail formatter, using a class load breakpoint, displaying all references to an object and how to display all instances of a class.
Using a debugger properly and [...]
If you are looking for what is new and exciting in the Java world, the presentations from two recent Java conferences have been published. Check out the presentations from JavaOne 2007 and Jazoon 07.
There are some very good presentations about Java and Ajax, Java Server Faces, GlassFish, Java and scripting, Java and web services and [...]
I started doing some Hibernate work this week using MyEclipse 6.0 M1 on Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) and I ran into a problem with signed jars which showed the error message:
signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package
Apparently JAR are now being signed in 6.0 but cglib and hibernate3 jar [...]
1) Install java-gnome
On a Fedora 7 system : run “yum install libgnome-java” which will bring in glib-java, libgtk-java and perhaps cairo-java packages.
2) In Eclipse create a new Java project.
3) Add the java-gnome jar files to the project (on Fedora 7 these are gtk2.8.jar, glib0.2.jar and gnome2.12.jar in the /usr/share/java directory). Note that in this [...]
As mentioned, Eclipse 3.3 was released on Friday. What’s New and Noteworthy details are available here.
In a somewhat related news, Instantiations released their WindowBuilderPro version 6.4. New and Noteworthy details are here. Unfortunately I can’t say I’m too excited about any of the new features except for their added support of [...]
The news wires are abuzz today with Apple’s release of their much anticipated iPhone. There are definitely enough Apple fans to make this product at least a moderate success. The fact that it is not using 3G networks, is only currently available in the US and the fact that there is no way [...]
