My Eclipse Setup

2010/06/13 | Published in , , ,

Since 2000, I’m a eclipse user, mainly for java coding. This article is a live article ( == I’ll update it) I’ll use to list and to memorize my eclipse setup (plugins, ini, preferences,…).

Since 2010 (since I stop coding in scala 2.7.x), I use it for my Scala dev. Previously, I used JEdit, emacs, netbeans - 6 month min each and 1 month for IntelliJ.

As text editor I also used : JEdit (this article is writing with it), SciTE and gnu nano

Eclipse version : 3.5.2 for Linux 64bit + JDK 1.6.0_20 64 bit (Sun)

Ini

My eclispe.ini file.

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.200.v20090519
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
384m
-vmargs
-server
-XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=384m
-Xss2m
-Xms512m
-Xmx2g
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=10
-XX:+ScavengeBeforeFullGC
-XX:-UseParallelOldGC
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-Duser.name=david.bernard
-Dosgi.requireJavaVersion=1.6
-Declipse.p2.unsignedPolicy=allow
#-Xms256m
#-Xmx1024m
#-Xss1m
#-server
#-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

References :

I use different memory setup, because I’ve ‘only’ 4Go Ram and a 64bit machine, and when start launch eclipse to test/debug my eclipse plugin. With higher values for -Xms, I got lot of error about memory.

Plugins

  • UI
    • Mousefeed (1.0.0) : Key promoter (Helps to remember keyboard shortcuts)
      • provider : Heavy Lifting software
      • update-site : http://update.mousefeed.com
  • Jvm (.java, .scala, .class) tools
    • M2Eclipse (0.10.0) : maven integration into eclipse
      • provider : Sonatype Inc
      • update-site : http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e
    • Scala Eclipse Plugin (2.8.0) :
      • provider :
      • update-site : http://download.scala-ide.org/update-current
    • Findbugs (1.3.9) : static .class (from java and may be scala) code analyzer
      • provider :
      • update-site : http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse
    • UCDetector (1.4.0) : Unnecessary Code Detector finds unnecessary (dead) public java code.
      • provider : Jörg Spieler
      • update-site : http://ucdetector.sourceforge.net/update
    • PMD For Eclipse (3.2.6) : static java code analyzer ( include CPD for copy/paste detection)
      • provider :
      • update-site : http://pmd.sf.net/eclipse
  • Text Editor
    • AnyEditTools (2.3.1) : Adds useful context menu actions to text files and editors
      • provider : Andrei Loskutov
      • update-site : http://andrei.gmxhome.de/eclipse/
  • Console Enhancement
    • Grep console : to have color in Console output (log, external builder,…)
      • provider : Marian Schedenig
      • update-site : http://eclipse.musgit.com/
    • Wicked Shell : direct access to your system’s shell in eclipse
      • provider :
      • update-site : http://www.wickedshell.net/updatesite

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