Eclipse Kepler - good features of Eclipse 4.3 ( Eclipse Kepler ) JDT / Workbench

Detached windows with sash

When you detach a view or editor into its own separate window, it now has all the capabilities of a normal workbench window. They now support multiple stacks of views separated by sashes with arbitrary layouts. The detached parts will remain synchronized with the master window that they were detached from. This is especially handy for people developing with two or more monitors, so they can spread views across several monitors and keep them synchronized.

Import nested projects

The Import Projects wizard now has an option to continue searching for projects to import recursively within any project it finds. This allows you to import physically nested projects at the same time.

Open Resource dialog enhancements

The Open Resource (Ctrl+Shift+R) dialog now offers direct access to the Show In and Open With menus via drop-down buttons. On platforms that support mnemonics, the buttons are also accessible via Alt+W and Alt+H.

Whole word option on File Search page

The File Search page now allows to search for words via a new option.

Open Search dialog on last used page

The Search dialog can now be configured to open on the last used page, instead of computing the best matching page based on the current selection.

Stop thread from OSGi console

If a bad plug-in runs into an endless loop, then you usually had to kill the whole Eclipse process. Now, you can launch Eclipse with -console [[host:]port] to get a safety ring. If you're then stuck in an endless loop and Eclipse doesn't respond any more, you can just execute
osgi> threads stop main
at the OSGi prompt. This will send an IllegalStateException to the "main" thread. This is usually enough to stop the endless loop, but keep the Eclipse workbench running.

New 'Convert if-else to switch' Quick Assist

The new Convert 'if-else' to 'switch' quick assist (Ctrl+1) allows you to convert an if-else statement to an equivalent switch statement:

Content assist shows Javadoc in Display, Expressions and Variables view

Content assist in the Display, Expressions and Variables view now shows Javadoc.

Support for package Javadoc in Javadoc hover and view

The Javadoc hover and view now display package Javadoc from either the package-info.java or the package.html file.

read more @ http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp

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Google Chrome shortcut keys

If you are a Google Chromey guy, please find below the list of shortcut keys for some of the most used features :-) Find more shortcut keys @ http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=25799&topic=28650

ATG Product Catalog schema ER diagram

Check out the O rder schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/02/atg-order-schema-er-diagram.html Check out the User Profile schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/03/atg-user-profile-schema-er-diagram.html If you would like to know the relationship between different Product Catalog tables, please find below screen shots of Product Catalog schema ER Diagrams.

ATG Search architectural flow : Search and Index

I would like to explain the high level ATG Search implementation architecture ( for an online store) through the above diagram. In this diagram 1.x denotes the search functionality and 2.x denotes the indexing functionality. I have given JBoss as the application server. Physical Boxes and Application Servers in the diagram ( as recommended by ATG ) : Estore ( Commerce ) Box --> The box with the estore/site ear (with the site JSPs and Java codes). Search Engine Box --> The box with the search engine application running. Indexing Engine Box --> The box with the indexing engine application running. CA (Content Administration) Box --> The box with the ATG CA ear ( where we could take CA -BCC - Search Administration and configure the search projects) . Search Indexer Box --> The box with the ATG Search Index ear ( to fetch the index data from repository). Note that the engine performing indexing will need access ...

ATG Search - high level overview of product-catalog-output-config.xml and XHTMLs

The definition file format begins with a top-level item element that specifies the repository and item descriptor to use, and then lists the properties of that item type to include. The top-level item element has the is-document attribute set to true. This attribute specifies that an XHTML document should be generated for each item of that type (in this case, each user item). Property values that come from standard JavaBean properties of the RepositoryItem object (rather than dynamic bean properties) are specified using a dollar-sign ($) prefix. The item element has an is-multi attribute for specifying multi-value properties. If a property is an Array, Collection or Map you should set this attribute to true. Eeach ATG Search document is uniquely identified by a URL (typically the path name of the file on the file system). In the XHTML documents that the ATG platform generates from repository items, meta properties are represented by meta tags in the head of the document, whi...

ATG User Profile schema ER diagram

Check out the Product Catalog schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/01/atg-product-catalog-schema-er-diagram.html Check out the O rder schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/02/atg-order-schema-er-diagram.html If you would like to know the relationship between different User Profile schema tables, please find below screen shot of Profile schema ER Diagrams.

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