I’m considering to upgrade my PC to Windows 8, but I have one concern though. I haven’t yet found any “confirmation”, that the JDK and Eclipse will work on Windows 8. Have anyone tried to develop/run Java-applications on Windows 8? Answer Confirmed – the JDK and Eclipse will work on Windows 8. I’m running Windows … Read more
I downloaded eclipse and unzipped the file into a folder and also added some plugins, changed some settings. If I copied this folder to a pendrive and opened it in another PC, will all my seetings and plugins work out of box? Answer Yes. Eclipse is portable. However you need to specify the workspace folder … Read more
Currently I’m developing some applications that I want to share with the community using GitHub. I’ve found a lot of tutorials on how to create a GitHub repository from scratch, but I couldn’t find one for sharing an existing Eclipse project. I would prefer a solution that works inside Eclipse using a GUI. Answer You … Read more
A few days ago I was using autocomplete features and Ctrl-click without any problem. But now those features don’t work anymore: the autocomplete shows up but is always empty, and Ctrl-click doesn’t work because Eclipse doesn’t recognize the classes anymore. This doesn’t even work for a class or function or variable in the same file, … Read more
Today I restarted my machine, and Eclipse (3.5, downloaded recently) shows a strange behaviour: shows splash screen for less than a sec quits This is in 100% of the cases, so I can’t start Eclipse at all. Where can I find logs about this? I deleted all eclipse resources and re-unzipped it. Same thing. I … Read more
I downloaded the latest version of Eclipse, but I can not start it. The error message I get is: Failed to load the JNI shared library “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin..\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll”. How do I fix this? I use 64-bit Windows, 32-bit JDK, and downloaded 64-bit Eclipse. Answer This usually happens if you have a 32- vs. 64-bit … Read more
I have both Google Chrome and Eclipse pinned to my taskbar in Windows 7 64-Bit. However, when I launch these programs, they don’t appear to open under the pinned taskbar icon Eclipse behaves similarly. The Eclipse launcher/workspace selector is under the pinned icon, but once the IDE opens, it moves from the pinned icon, to … Read more
When using the open file dialog on Eclipse, many file types open in the internal editor as expected (.java, .txt). However, others open in an external editor. For example on my system attempting to open .sh file causes it to open it in emacs, and .py files open in bluefish. How do I tell eclipse … Read more
when we open a file from “Package Explorer” in eclipse, after we use it, it will leave in the tabs. If we open a file from “Search” result, then after we search another keyword, it will disappear, we need to see the search result to find out that. Is there any solution that I can … Read more
Ctrl+Shift+U is a combined shortcut in Eclipse. But when I press it, it shows up a u, just like input with an underline. I guess this shortcut has been declared by Ubuntu, so I can’t use it. I used to solve this problem by typing Caps Lock first. Is there any better method? Answer Found … Read more
