Eclipse provides a good tool for applies copy right headers to source files, it can also replace one ones if the file already contain a copyright header.
The tool can be installed from the eclipse update site and is called:
Another tool which might be useful is: Eclipse Copyright Generator, it can be installed from the updatesite:
The latter plugin adds
- a new Panel in the preferences (global or project based) with: Menu > Windows > Preferences > General > Copyright.
- a Menu Menu > Project > Apply Copyright…
- a realy nice Wizard with a lot of options and some default template for Open-Source licence (Apache, EPL, …)
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Here is a nice plug-in to analysis Java code in Eclipse. It can detect known bad practises and known or possible null pointers, synchronization problems etc.
Eclipse update site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse
To debug the SWT Framework a tool called Sleak can be used, it is provided by SWT itself.
Link to a guide about Sleak
The tool can be found at: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/tools.php
To enable the Japanese characters (Shift-JIS) the operation system needs to install the fonts.
This is how to do it in Windows Xp:
- Install the fonts. This is done in the Regional Options under languages
- Select the Install files for East Asian languages. The windows cd is needed.
- After this a restart is needed.
- In Eclipse select properties of the file which contains Japanese characters and select Test file encoding.
- Chose: UTF-8 and click ok.
- Now you can open the file with any editor in Eclipse and it should show the file correctly.
Here is a link to a site which describes how to do the same for other operation systems.
Eclipse Spy: Enables you to get information about what kind of e.g. window you are looking at in eclipse. This is useful if you be your self are developing plug-ins for eclipse. To invoke Eclipse spy:
An other blog post about Eclipse 3.4 Hidden Treasures can be found at http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-34-hidden-treasures
Eclipse shortcuts: (source)
- quick outline: ctrl + o
- open resource: ctrl + shift + r
- open type (class, interface etc.): ctrl + shift + t
- go to line: ctrl + l
