Monday, December 30, 2002

Eclipse tip of the day: organising imports in your java source files A great tip from Martin van den Bemt. If you want to organise the imports of many different Java source files in a project (removing unused imports, sorting the imports and expanding any import com.foo.* statements) rather than doing it file by file (or worse, task by task) then try this. In the tree widget of the Package Explorer of the Java perspective, select the packages or Java source files you want to organise the imports for, then right click and select 'Organise Imports'. Nice! This might be obvious to some but until I got this tip from Martin I found myself hitting Ctrl-Shift-O to organise imports on a file by file basis. Great find Martin! 6:36:51 PM    comment []

Hyades: one to watch There's not much there but a few documents, but there's a new eclipse sub-project called Hyades which looks interesting. Quite a few different companies contributing to it. Its aiming to be a universal functional and integration testing suite thats integrated into eclipse. Its gonna be interesting to see how this stuff fits together and if it can reuse existing testing tools like JUnit, Cactus, Latka, Anteater etc. Up to now my thoughts on this area have been to integrate something like werkflow, Jelly, Ant and Axis together to make a testing workflow system together with a server farm and collection facality, maybe integrated with the Continuous Integration features of Maven or CruiseControl. There's a new Maven project called Continuum which could well provide the backbone of this suite. It'll be interesting to see how the Hyades folks tackle the data collection, workflow and scripting aspects of integration testing. Update: also found this paper which is worth a read. 4:58:37 PM    comment []

Eclipsing .Net I spotted this interesting article on eclipsing .net. Its nice to see eclipse spanning both the Java and .Net worlds as well as giving those Visual Studio users some healthy competition. 10:11:11 AM    comment []