Improving Java code quality with Eclipse Juno

The Eclipse Java compiler performs more checks and analyses than are mandated by the Java Language Specification. See Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings preference page for available options.

Now several of these options should be obvious, however a few maybe not :-) In Juno we (I mean Stephan) added a few pages to give some background on certain analyses and hints on how to make the best use of them.

Please let us know if these pages could be improved, or if you want to know more details on some other compiler options as well.

Eclipse Demo Camp 2012 - Bangalore

The Demo Camp happened last Friday, and was great fun! A couple of things stood out for me.

First, I was pleasantly surprised to see people from Bosch already exploring Orion and evaluating how they can use the Orion platform and the Orion editors at their work.

Second, I came to know about Eclipse Spykit which looks an interesting project. Based on Runtime Spy Eclipse Spykit creates more charts and does a bit more analysis on what happens during Eclipse startup. Annamali started this project and mentioned that he is looking for contributors.

Oh yeah, the Fajitas were good and the wine was excellent!

Eclipse Demo Camp 2012 - Bangalore

It's demo camp time again! I will be speaking this Friday at the Eclipse Demo Camp Bangalore where I will demo some of the interesting new features in JDT for Juno and also show off a few tips and tricks. 


It should be fun discussing Eclipse over some Tapas and wine :-) Thanks Annamalai for organizing this!

JDT Tip: Toggle between inserting and replacing content assist

When content assist is invoked on an existing identifier, it can either replace the identifier with the chosen completion or do an insert.

The default behavior is to insert. You can toggle this behavior while inside the content assist selection dialog by pressing and holding the Ctrl key while selecting the completion. The highlighted text is overwritten.

If you wish the completion to overwrite without pressing the Ctrl key then you can select 'Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist > Completion overwrites'.