Eclipse

Requirements

Eclipse requires a Java JDK to work. See Java JDK setup

Installation

Download eclipse from the official website: http://eclipse.org/downloads/

Take the Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers version.

Windows

Just extract the archive and run ./eclipse/eclipse.exe

Linux

Basic installation

• Download the eclipse.deb package
• Install the package using:

tar -xzvf eclipse.tar.gz

• Launch application by running ./eclipse/eclipse

Create a desktop launcher

sudo vim /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Put the following content where /home/guillaume/DEV/eclipse is the path to Eclipse.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=4.3.0
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=/home/guillaume/DEV/eclipse/eclipse -clean
Icon=/home/guillaume/DEV/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application

Ubuntu 13.10 - launcher Fix

If the menu doesn't appear correctly you must create the following launcher:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=4.3.0
Name=Eclipse
Comment=IDE for all seasons
Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /home/guillaume/DEV/eclipse/eclipse -clean
Icon=/home/guillaume/DEV/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application

Don't forget the Exec=... line! The key is "env UBUNTU MENUPROXY=0"

SWT libraries fixes

On the latest distribution Eclipse sometimes crashed due to libswt-*.so

To resolve that, install the development libraries:

apt-get install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk-3-dev

Eclipse configuration

JDK

Window menu -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JRE

    > Add the JDK as a standard VM
    > JRE home = JDK root
    > Click "Finish"

Select the new JDK as the default one

Preferences -> Java -> Installed JRE -> Execution Environment

    > For each java version adjust the JVM to use

Display line numbers

Window menu -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors

    > Enable show line numbers 
    > show print margin (you can adjust the size. I'm using "160")

Increase console size

Window menu -> Preferences -> Run / debug -> Console

If you limit the console output put a hudge value (>= 100 000)

Adjust encoding to UTF-8

By default Eclipse use the same encoding as your O.S, which is probably ISO-8859-1 .You should instead use UTF-8.

Window menu -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace

At the bottom of the script, choose "UTF-8"

Window menu -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Spelling

Choose UTF-8 to encode javadoc

Window menu -> Preferences -> General -> filter "encoding"

Encode CSS + HTML + JSP + XML in UTF-8

On the General -> Content Types, check that everything has default encoding: UTF-8. If the default encoding is blank, then add "UTF-8"

Check:

• Android Binary XML (if available)
• Diagram (if available)
• JAR Content
• Java class File
• Text
  • HTML
  • Java properties file
  • JSP
    • CSS JSP
    • JSP fragment
    • JSP Tag definition
  • XML

JavaHL for Subclipse

Source: Subclipse JavaHL wiki

Linux requires the JavaHL client for Subclipse:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

Find the library file:

sudo find / -name libsvnjavahl-1.so

You should have something like:

guillaume@VC076:~/DEV/eclipse$ sudo find / -name libsvnjavahl-1.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni/libsvnjavahl-1.so

Now, update your eclipse.ini configuration

vim eclipse.ini

Add the path without '/' at the end.

-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/jni

→ Note: Ubuntu 13.10 as only the JavaHL 1.7 library. So you should not install SVN client 1.8.x but SVN client 1.7.x !!