Kohana 2.x code completion in Eclipse PDT

Things are about to change with Kohana 3 just released…

Meanwhile, the Eclipse PDT editor can’t really cope with Kohanas class namings and folder structure. But of course there is a solution: Peter Bowyer’s zend_autocomplete (works in all Eclipse PDT implementations including my boosted FlexBuilder 3, not just Zend Studio!). Put it in your controller directory, run it – and it creates a file in the cache containing all Kohana system classes as well as your own application classes! This is what Eclipse needs to give you well-working code completion!

Thank you, Peter!

Eclipse FTP problem solved by passive mode

From one of my machines, I couldn’t connect properly to our development server via Eclipse Remote System FTP explorer. The connection is established, but no files or directories were shown.

Solved it by changing the properties for the remote connection: The Connector Services -> Ftp Settings -> passive property should be changed to “true”, then it works!

FlexBuilder 3 as plugin in Eclipse 3.5 Galileo

Just found this article describing how to run FlexBuilder 3 plugin in newer versions of Eclipse (3.4 & 3.5). Just trying it out, and it seems to work. Good news! This makes it possible to set up an environment including plugins that depend on the newer versions. In my case, it’s above all the nWire Php plugin that is interesting. Thank you, Adam Ness!

Eclipse plugin of tomorrow? nWire for php

Just tried a beta of the comin nWire plugin for php in Eclipse PDT/Zend Studio. It brings super-handy code exploration, including graphical tree view of includes and method dependencies, to php environment.

Right now it works in Eclipse 3.5, not in my 3.3 environment, so I have to make some change in my FlexBuilder based Eclipse-setup before it can be a tool for me…

Not free, but 59 bucks for a personal license is nothing to grumble about.

Eclipse plug-in of today: Zip Browser

Not a fancy one, not a new one… But a good one!
Zip Browser:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zipbrowser/

I just lets you inspect a zip (including jars) lib in the editor. Unfortunately no way to extract them, drag them out from the zip or so… But handy anyway!

UPDATE:

The Eclipse Zip Editor makes it possible to drag to and from the file explorer etc. Thank you, Uwe Ewald!

SoapUI 2.5.1 in Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) – installation problems solved!

Installing SoapUI 2.5.1 in Eclipses 3.3 (wich Adobe Flex Builder 3 is built upon) can be tricky. (Might be a problem on other Eclipse versions too!)  It gives an error caused by the org.w3c.dom.Node class.

This post led me to a solution: http://www.eviware.com/forums/index.php?action=profile%3Bu=123%3Bsa=showPosts

You have to replace the MANIFEST.MF and xbean-fixed-2.4.0.jar files in the way that is described in the forum. Then start Eclipse with the -clean parameter. Then it should work. At least it does for me!

Living the life through Eclipse-plug-ins

The Eclipse platform is really astonishing! My Flash efforts led me to Adobe’s Flex Builder, built on Eclipse. Since then it has become a daily tool along with Eclipse PDT (Php Developing Tools). Having the same platform for these just rocks!

After starting investigating, there’s seems to be no end in what can be done from inside Eclipse. Here are just some examples:

• SoapUI – Webservice-explorer. A bit tricky to install in Eclipse Europa (v 3.3, that FlexBuilder 3 is built upon), but it can be done!
• MindX - Excellent mindmapping tool
• IDF PDF-viewer plugin – open a pdf on your server without downloading it!
• OpenOffice inside Eclipse. Versioning and remote editing of your business documents!
• QuickImage - bitmap viewer, unfortunately not an editor (yet!?)
• GmailClipse - Gmail-client

Take a look at Eclipse Plugin Central -  there are hundreds of programming tools, utilities, games…

Ricercar music notation – built on Eclipse platform

One very interesting aspect of the Ricercar music notation project is that it’s built as a plug-in on the Eclipse platform. This opens a lot of possibilities, for example easy versioning (svn) of your works, or remote editing!