The PIH developers used to have a daily tradition of sharing what new features and special tricks they found in Eclipse. I’ve had many such moments myself, albeit not nearly a daily thing…
Today, the thing I love about Eclipse is the abundance of plugins. I sat here thinking, I wish I could control-click on an interface method and jump to the implementation of that interface. The first hit in my google search gave me a plugin to install. Now, instead of doing any silly looking for the Hibernate implementation of the ContextDAO, I can right-click on a method call, select “Open Implementation”, and boom, I’m looking at the HibernateContextDAO class.
You can find the implementation plugin described here http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/implementors and the eclipse update site link is: http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/updates/ .
The other very helpful plugins I have installed are:
- Subclipse - http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
- FindBugs - http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse
- FreeMem - http://www.junginger.biz/eclipse/
In addition, because I upgraded to Eclipse 3.3.1.1 (that last .1 is very important), I get built in jsp syntax highlighting.