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More Clipboard is an Eclipse plug-in which keeps track of the latest entries copied/cut into clipboard buffer and allows you to quickly access these entries. http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreclipboard/ http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/more-clipboard

ModelGoon is an Eclipse plug-in avaiable for UML diagram generation from Java code. It can be used to generate Package Dependencies Diagram, Class Diagram, Interaction Diagram and Sequence Diagram. You coud get it from http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/modelgoon-uml4java Read more about it and see some vedios about how to create the class and sequence diagram @ http://www.modelgoon.org/?tag=eclipse-plugin Find some snapshots below which gives an idea about the diagram generation.

At any point of time, you think about an Eclipse plug-in to compile a single java file in your Eclipse (as the Eclipse provide only the option for Build-All ) ? Here , I am giving the links to a plug-in, helping you to compile a single java file. Find the plug-in @ http://timealias.bplaced.net/eclipse2ant . Please find below some screen shots:

We have an eclipse plug-in to view the graphical version tree of CVS @ Eclipse.You can download from the site : http://versiontree.sourceforge.net/ net.sf.versiontree_1.6.1.jar –> For Eclipse 3.4 and 3.6 net.sf.versiontree_1.5.0.jar –> For Eclipse 3.2 and 3.3 Quick help points : 1. Provide the link with editor option to auto refresh the version tree. 2. Rightclick on a CVS resource in the package explorer and select “Team -> Show in Version Tree” from the popup menu to display a version tree for a CVS resource. 3. Left click on a revision in the version tree to display the details in the detail view on the right. 4. Double click a revision in the version tree to open an editor with the contents of that revision. 5. Configure layout, color and sizes of the ui elements: “Windows -> Preferences: Team / CVS / Version Tree”

If you want to color your Eclipse, please follow the url : http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ This provides you a plug-in with different color themes. Please find the Eclipse configuration screen shot below :

InstaSearch is an Eclipse plug-in for performing quick and advanced search of workspace files. This will index the files and when you search for some file contents, it will look with in this index and the search results will be faster, just like the Goolge instant search. It uses Lucene ( http://lucene.apache.org/ ) for indexing and fast searching of files in the workspace. Each search result file then can be previewed using few most matching and relevant lines. A double-click on the match leads to the matching line in the file. Main Features Instantly shows search results Shows a preview using relevant lines Periodically updates the index Matches partial words (e.g. case in CamelCase) Opens and highlights matches in files Searches JAR source attachments Supports filtering by extension/project/working set Download / Installation In Eclipse Helios (3.6) please install using the  Eclipse Marketplace from the Help menu http://marketplace.eclipse.org/s...