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Dave Carver: XSL Tooling Update Site

Posted about 16 hours ago by nor...@blogger.com (David Carver)

For those that have been asking, here is the URL for the XSL Tooling update site:

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/milestones/

This will probably be changing, but the above should work for those that want to install the latest ... [More] version using the update manager and p2.

I've also updated the XSL Tooling wiki entry with the above information as well. [Less]

Denis & Karl: Babel stats

Posted about 16 hours ago by nor...@blogger.com (Denis Roy)

Eclipse 3.4 isn't released yet, but it's already passed the 50% translation rate for several languages, according to the Babel stats page I just put up:

Eclipse 3.4 Translation progress
Spanish 54.52 %
Japanese 54.31
French ... [More] 52.79
German 50.26
Polish 49.02
Italian 49.01
Chinese 48.92
Portuguese 48.61
Dutch 48.4
Turkish 48.33

Other improvements to the Babel translation tool include:
- feedback on the number of strings translated on every save (Babel translates all exact matches across all projects)
- completion statistics for each project/version/language right in the translation UI.

Install the Babel-produced language packs from the Babel update site and help us globalize Eclipse! [Less]

Eugene Kuleshov: Maven POM xml editor

Posted about 16 hours ago

Lukáš Krecan and I have been working on the Maven POM XML editor for m2eclipse. The editor is integrated with an open source Nexus Indexer search engine and provides completion on Maven artifacts and customizable context-sensitive templates. It ... [More] will be included in the next 0.9.4 dev build, which will be available this week.

The new Maven POM XML editor is built upon the WTP SSE editors framework which provides completion based on the POM schema, as well as completion on Maven artifacts, such as groupId, artifactId and version, appropriately scoped for dependencies, poms and plugins:

We also have customizable templates for parent, property, dependecy, exclusion, repository and plugin elements in the POM XML.

This is just beginning and if you want to help us to improve it and implement additional features, here are a few ideas that you could work on:

completion of plugin configuration elements using plugin metadata
completion in excludes element should take into account actual transitive dependencies for given artifact
outline view should be Maven-aware, e.g. instead of separate groupId, artifactId, version elements, it should show logical node like "org.apache.maven : maven-core : 2.0.8" and so on
quick outline view (Ctrl-O) showing same logical structure as Outline view for quick navigation in pom.xml
hyperlink-like navigation (Ctrl-click) from any groupId:artifactId:etc elements to the declaring pom
editor popup menu for opening pom, open project site, issue tracker, source control, ci system would be also handy

Please let us know if you want to work on any of those. [Less]

Fred Grott: PythonUML for Eclipse!

Posted about 18 hours ago

Are you looking for an Eclipse plugin that allows you to do UML and have it generated in python? The plugin is beta and the howto guide is in German. However, the plugin is called Eclipse-PyUML. Here is a screen shot showing live and real -time validation:

Seva Lapsha: Why Eclipse Equinox P2 Update Manager sucks

Posted about 19 hours ago

As you all know in Eclipse 3.4 there is a new Update Manager (more correctly - Plug-in Manager) which is intended to be better.

The update managing side of it is an improvement indeed. But the first thing raised my alertness is there is no ... [More] place to point where do I want my selected plug-ins to be installed. Well, I thought it’s just a default selection and manually downloaded the plug-ins and dropped them into the famous dropins directory (of course with keeping directory structure). And then after restarting eclipse I discovered that there is no such a thing like hierarchy of plug-ins and plug-in locations at all. That’s too bad.

Now, let’s say you installed all the plug-ins. Then if you want to update them, you don’t have a overall progress bar. And this is a network connection related progress. Isn’t it stupid?

Another glitch: My wireless connection to my neighbor’s hub suddenly aborted. So what does it do? It shows me an error dialog behind the modal dialog of progress information. I’m not even mentioning that there is no retry/ignore options.

Now they say: you can replace the new p2 with the good old Update Manager. But for that you must restore several configuration files from 3.3.2. I understand, this is my stupid mistake that I first completely destroyed my previous installation (I can allow it to myself at home), but it’s still annoying. [Less]

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