General Blather

In my more recent experimentations I'm finding that my first-pass, hasty testing of JDK7 on old projects is not as much of a failure as I'd thought it was. The problem lies not with my project, the IDE, the new JDK, or the old libraries, but with the… more »

Not Eclipse so much, as the experience of using it. I guess they kind of go hand-in-hand, but I'm not ready to blame Indigo. New experimentation with Eclipse Indigo (3.7) brings me to the conclusion that the marketplace doesn't work. This seems to be a… more »

JDK7 doesn't seem to play nice with Spring 3.0.5 out of the box. I did my testing on an installation of Ubuntu running in a VM on my Mac. I've done this before running JDK6 and Eclipse Helios (3.6) or STS, so I know it works. I did a clean install and… more »

I didn't write it, but handy to have in your Eclipse is a complete code-coverage tool. Run your JUnit tests with this plug-in instead of straight JUnit, and it'll (try to) let you know where your tests don't hit. more »

I don't mean to sound like your typical Windows basher, but I find it curious that the environments in which I work are so split between UNIX (and the like) on the server and Windows on the desktop. more »