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Having discussed yesterday with Alex Blewitt and Lars Vogel on what @Active is I thought it might make sense to explain it in a short blog post. Let’s start with the question Alex posted on twitter: “Which is preferable; using @Named(ACTIVE_SHELL) or @Active shell“ Answer: they are completely different things! Before we understand why we […]

I’ve read some reports from people who don’t like the new L&F. I don’t want to discuss this what I’d like to present you is how you can get the old L&F almost back. The default answer you’ll get is that you should switch to the Classic-Theme in Preferences > General > Appearance – don’t […]

Inspired by a question that was asked twiced on the newsgroup about internal “API” that is missing in Eclipse 4.x although the feature is still there when interacting with the IDE The API in question was: … I needed an ability to allow a user to, upon request, launch a view either attached as a […]

So there are many people around asking themselves why the hell did they rewrite the whole foundation of the Eclipse SDK while I as a user of the SDK don’t gain any benefits on first sight. I’m try to collect some of the reasons why I think Eclipse 4 is superior to Eclipse 3 (and […]

This post is dedicated to “Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform” (EAP). So what is the EAP? In short it is a Widget-Toolkit agonstic UI-Application framework for OSGi which provides the following features: An extensible central application model abstracting the main concepts of UI-Applications: UI-Concepts like Windows, Toolbars, Parts, … None-UI Concepts like Commands and Handlers, Extensions, […]