classes slow in Eclipse

In a certain, corporate installation of Eclipse on a quite fast computer CRTL+Left click on java classes, members and methods in the java editor incurred always several seconds of a locked up eclipse which coincided with moderate network traffic. When disconnecting the network the delay would magically vanish. Pierre-Antoine Grégoire came up with the reason … Continue reading CRTL + Left click on java methods/members/classes slow in Eclipse →

Connecting with Eclipse to a remote SVN repository via SSH on non-standard ports

Having been bitten by this for the n-th time (with n being subjectively a large integer), I'm noting this down for the following generations to benefit; and hopefully to save myself some fiddling next time it happens. Without further ado: How to connect with SVN to a remote repository that is running on a non-standard … Continue reading Connecting with Eclipse to a remote SVN repository via SSH on non-standard ports →

Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn

This article [1] says it all, but here again for greek and linux: sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-el gawk aspell dump master el | awk -F/ '{print $1}' > dictionary_el.txt And then in Eclipse : Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors ->Spelling Add dictionary_el.txt as a User Defined Dictionary Update 28.12.2011 … Continue reading Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn →

NPE when starting Google Dev Mode

After setting up a new Eclipse instance, checking out my current GWT project it's time for a first test, so I fire up the DevMode and: NullPointerException at SwingUI(42) That particular class is part of the GWT DevMode and tries to load an image from the class path by requesting it from SwingUI's class loader … Continue reading NPE when starting Google Dev Mode →

Ant terminating immediately in Eclipse without any errors

Recently all ant builds started failing when started from within Eclipse without an apparent reason. When the ant target is invoked, the console briefly opens and closes again, without any message or error. /workspace/.metadata/.log finally reveals the cause: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/BuildException Some Ant classes seem to be missing, strange. A look at Window -> Preferences -> … Continue reading Ant terminating immediately in Eclipse without any errors →