The new version 1.3 of the Brosinski regex plugin for Eclipse is now completely free. Great decision - thanks!
I tested some regular expression tools for Eclipse (e.g. QuickREx) but the Eclipse Regular Expression Tester from Brosinski IMHO is the best. It allows you to create regular expressions in the JDK style that can be used directly in your Java code or the search dialog of Eclipse.
I am using CVS since about five years for my daily work. Some may ask why I do not use Subversion which is newer and has more features - the reason is that Eclipse has much better CVS support built in than any third party Subversion plugin offers.
For one of my current projects I am using (or have to use 
) Microsoft Visual Studio and Subversion. First I was shocked that there is no built in support for Subversion (is that a strategy?). So I tried tortoisesvn and was quite satisfied with its features.
It did not take very long and I had to find out that I need a plugin for Visual Studio to support Subversion operations inside the IDE. Renaming or moving files has to be done with the Subversion tool to make the repository aware of the changes and if I used tortoise the Visual Studio project did not recognize the changes. So I installed AnkhSVN.
Another one or two days later I still was not satisfied with my solution. So I read some web pages about SVN usage and came across many people using Eclipse just as SVN client even if they work with other development tools. And so I came to the best solution for me: AnkhSVN in combination with Eclipse and subclipse.
Subclipse allows me to synchronize with the repository as I am used to inside Eclipse, let me view the changes and compare files in a superb way, see the history of files and much more. Is it just because I am used to or is it the best solution?
As this Eclipse bug entry reports Ant 1.7 is now included in the Eclipse build and will be released with the next rollout. This will finally bring Junit 4 support.
Two weeks ago Eclipse 3.3 M5 was released. From my experiences with past versions of Eclipse milestone five is usually a good point to switch or at least try it.
My favorite new features of version 3.3 so far are:
Check out New and Noteworthy on the Eclipse site for the complete list of new features.
The final version 3.3 will be released in June (see project plan).
PS: Additionally there is a new bugfix release Eclipse 3.2.2 for download.
Today I experienced memory problems with Eclipse using JDK6 (OutOfMemory PermGen space …)
Until now I thought this happened only in some JDK 5 versions (prior to 1.5.0_08). Adding the MaxPermSize VM argument is needed (see my earlier post).
If you are experiencing OutOfMemory Exceptions while working with Eclipse it could be because your Java VM has run out of PermGenSpace. This occurred with Sun JDK 1.5.0_06 an Eclipse 3.2 using many plugins very often.
To avoid this you may add -XX:MaxPermSize=128m as VM argument when starting Eclipse or add this argument to your eclipse.ini. With never Sun JDKs (>1.5.0_07) it seems that the problem seems to be resolved.
See the bug entry if you are interested.
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