• Project Examples Creation and Strategy

    (THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS STARTED SEPTEMBER 14, 2010) Overview JBoss Tools and JBDS provide access to numerous zipped project examples via the Help->Project Examples menu. Each project example appears in a catego...
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  • How to use the Python ant-to-Eclipse example converter scripts

    Overview Though it still doesn't have a great name, I've put together a set  of Python scripts that will take an ANTified runtime example, such as  one of the ESB examples, and convert it into an import-read...
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  • Manage SWTBot bits used by builds and developers

    JBT/JBDS builds and JBT/JBDS SWTBot tests developers have to use the same version of SWTBot to ensure consistency.   Current version of SWTBot release used is specified in the target platform definition files (*....
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  • Eclipse wizards with jface databinding in Deltacloud Tools (1)

    Less code If you use jface databinding to code your swt views in Eclipse you'll get spared from writing listeners and updating code by hand. JFace databinding offers very nice abstractions and automatisms that offer f...
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  • Hibernate plugins are moved to newer Hibernate-core

    Hibernate plugins announced JPA 2.0 support in 3.2.0.M1 But it was not full support of the JPA 2.0. It was just support of Dali plugins for JPA 2.0 with Hibernate platform (read UI representation). Our users were not...
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  • Smooks Direct Source to Target Mapping

    The Smooks Editor in v3.2.0 of JBoss Tools supports a new and more simplified mapping process that allows users to perform transformations (XML -> XML, XML -> CSV, EDI -> XML etc) without needing to add an in...
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  • How to figure out where a Jira were committed

    Noone should ever forget to set the proper fix version on a jira when you resolve or close it but sometimes we forget. Below i'm outlining how you can figure out when/where things are actually committed.   Find ...
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  • What can we track with JBoss Tools usage reporting?

    Preface We maintain a Google Analytics account to track JBoss Tools usage. Google Analytics is designed to track web page usage but it might be adapted to track other applications. That's what we did for JBoss Tools a...
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  • DeltaCloud Tools 0.0.1 User Guide

    h2. Introduction     The DeltaCloud Tools provides a set of Eclipse plug-ins to manage clouds via one or more DeltaCloud servers.  The plug-ins use a REST interface to communicate with the DeltaCloud s...
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  • Create Eclipse Ecore (EMF) Models manually

    Forewords  EMF provides a runtime and tools that allow you to create ecore object models. The starting point is a model definition. It may be created out of a XML Schema (XSD), annotated java classes, etc. ...
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  • Hibernate Annotations in JPA Project

    Hibernate extends Dail JPA functionality. There are some hibernate annotations which have support in jpa projects. All the annotations are from “org.hibernate.annotations” package. The support of annotatio...
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  • Using the Web Service Tester

    Starting in JBoss Tools 3.2 and JBDS 4, we are including a new tool to help with web service testing that's called - the Web Service Tester. Not the most original name, but it does state pretty clearly what it does. &...
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  • JBoss AS Tools Installation - zip archive and update site

    I have downloaded the JBoss AS Tools plugin from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/as-Update-2010-07-20_00-26-17-H162.zip and unzipped its contents into Eclipse's dropins folder:   <dropins-folder>\jb...
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  • How Developers should use JBoss Tools JIRA

    JBoss Tools jira is located at https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE and its related project JBoss Developer Studio has a jira at https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBDS   Lifecycle of an issue  Overall ...
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  • How to Write Documentation for JBDS and JBoss Tools

    Documentation building procedure Doc JIRA JBoss Tools/JBDS Demos Enviroment Wink Preferences Screening process Postprocessing JBoss Tools/JBDS guides structure Project structure schema ...
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  • JBossToolsRoadmap

    JBoss Tools Road map  This page outlines the focus areas we will be working on for the next major version of JBoss Tools. This is a work in progress and if you think something is missing/incorrect then please r...
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  • JBoss Tools 3.0.x Roadmap

    JBoss Tools 3.0.x Road map [now closed see JBossToolsRoadmap for more uptodate]   This page outlines the  focus areas we will be working on for JBoss Tools 3.x. This is a  work in progress and if you ...
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  • Confortable testing with SWTBot

    There is a great option to run SWTBot tests in separate window. No more watching SWTBot "doing the work" This can be accomplished by Xephyr. As a Xorg extension it should be available on every linux distro.   X...
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  • Test Driven Development (TDD) and Moving Forward with Less Technical Debt

    Note: This is a work in progress, not gospel. So know that it will most likely change over time. Overview  Before we get into TDD and how it will eventually make our lives easier once we adjust to using it, I w...
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  • Notes about Tycho on JBoss Tools

    History Devox 2009 - Max made first weird attempt at creating a scala script to generate pom, but bugs in Tycho and cyclic dependencies made it impossible to do "the easy way"   EclipseCon 2010 - Tycho 0.8 came ...
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