Eclipse survival kit

To find the associated bracket in a Java source on Eclipse, double-click the bracket to find the matching one.

Select square: Alt+Shift+A

Smaller fonts: open the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page. Select Basic>Text Fonts, Edit and change font size
create WAR files, or AAR axis2 archive files)

Change author / user:
Windows > Preferences > Java > Code Style > Code Templates > Comments
Select Types

When installing Eclipse on Kubuntu, install on /usr/local, otherwise you may have issues with the plugins install

CDT
- tab spaces not taken into account (Helios, Ubuntu 64 bits)
- Needed to do a "apt-get update" after installing CDT otherwise, gave me funky compile error messages on printf and stuff
- To access the gdb CLI, select the gdb process node in the Debug view. The gdb command line will then be available in the Console view. Though no prompt is visible, you can enter commands at the bottom line of the Console view. Doing so may desynchronize the IDE and gdb, so be careful when driving the debugger using this interface.
- automatic save: Windows > Preferences > General > Workspace

cmake

create  a sibbling directory of the sources root:     search-l-2S-build 

cd search-l-2S-build 

cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../search-l-2S 

In eclipse CDT:

File > Import Existing Projects into Workspace > Next

Select root directory => Répertoire "cmakebuild" créé plus haut

Source accessible in "Subprojects".

./eclipse_cdt -vmargs -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m

J2EE
You just get "Dynamic Web Project" creation menu only when you install J2EE Eclipse version

Useful files
    - eclipse.ini

if you get black zones within the Eclipse editor, you will have to switch from GTK3 to GTK2. To do this, add the following two lines to eclipse.ini  

--launcher.GTK_version

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Software sites 

maven2 - http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases

Problems

when using the maven plugin, the "Java build path" in the Eclipse will take the default JRE Eclipse config unless you specify "maven-compiler-plugin" as artifact in the pom.xml with version 1.8 for example

Formatting
window->Preferences, ensuite choisir Java->Code Style-> formatter et sélectionner "Java conventions [build-in]".

Ganimede: 3.4 .. 25 June 2008

Galileo: 3.5 .. 24 June 2009

Helios: 3.6 .. 23 June 2010