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Good features of Eclipse3.5 (Eclipse Galileo) JDT


This blog will list down the new features of Eclipse Galileo JDT. I will write another blog regarding the features of Eclipse Helios and Eclipse Indigo.

Read about Eclipse Helios features @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.com/2011/11/good-features-of-eclipse-36-eclipse.html

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1. Toggle Breadcrumb —> Will list the name of the file and the method name with respect to your cursor position , on the top of the Eclipse IDE. From here you can go to other methods, other classes in same package , ….

Screen shot of Toggle Breadcrumb:



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2. From the method call , you can either go to declaration or to implementation

Screen shot of implementation call:



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3. Advanced Open Type –> You can restrict the open type to a selected Working set only.

Screen shot of Advanced Open Type:



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4. Embedded Telnet connection window —> You can have the telnet connection as a window in Eclipse

Screen shot of Telnet connection:



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5. Embedded Sql developer —> You can view the database tables , run queries , can see the history of queries ran and the results …

Screen shot of Sql Developer:



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6. Enhanced Local History —> You can view all the changes that you made in a file in all the file save that you done. —> Just like clear case/SVN / CVS , you can compare with the previous versions of the files to see each line changes

Screen shot of Enhanced Local History:



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7.A new property window to view the properties of the selected file

Screen shot of property window:



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8.Exclude selected packages or files from the build path

Screen shot of Exclusion of build path:



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9. Ctrl +3 —> Advanced quick access to the available screens by typing the start letters

Screen shot of Ctrl +3:



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10. XML files can be open in a Design View

Screen shot of XML Design View:



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11. Quick search in window – Preference

Screen shot of  Quick search in window – Preference:



Comments

  1. Good materials to learn the features. We started using the Eclipse Indigo...waiting for the blog on that :-)

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  2. Thank you Legin, will update you guys regarding the Eclipse Helios and Eclipse Indigo.

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