I finally got this plugin posted on eclipse marketplace. Click here to see it posted at eclipse marketplace. I hope others can find this plugin among the thousands of other java/eclipse plugins. More importantly, I hope they find it useful.
It took about 3 days before the moderators of the eclipse marketplace made the plugin available to the public. I suppose that is reasonable, but I was surprised that I didn't receive an email saying it had been approved. All in all it was a fairly painless process.
It's been posted about a week now and someone has already posted to this blog indicating that they installed it (and more importantly find it useful). Any and all feedback is welcome so don't hesitate to comment or send an email.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Necessity is the mother of invention...
While working in eclipse, I've often found myself with 20+ java, xml, wsdl, xsd, etc. editors open at one time. Finding the desired editor can get unwieldy so I FINALLY created a plugin to give me greater control over the open editors in the eclipse environment. I hope the java/eclipse community finds it as useful as I have.
To be sure, there are other eclipse plugins out there that help out with this, but not to the extent that this plugin does. I think it provides a few extra levels of customization that make this plugin more useful, but I'll let all of the members of the java/eclipse community decide for themselves.
This plugin, called ERO (eclipse resource organizer) allows me to create 'editor groups' where only certain files are shown in the editor group. The groups are defined by ANT like inclusion/exclusion filters and can be setup/maintained quickly. For example, you can define a group called 'Java' that contains all \**\*.java files or create a group called 'Web Services' that contains both .wsdl and .xsd files.
In addition, the plugin allows you to 'colorize' editors whose associated file matches ANT like inclusion/exclusion filters. For example, you might designate all 'hibernate' xml files to be dark green.
If people find this plugin useful, I plan on updating it. I also have many additional Resource/Editor plugins rolling around in my head that I will be starting on next. The goal is to have a collection of at least 4 views with a similar style to this one, but providing different functionality. Stay tuned.
I have marked this plugin as 'beta' on the Eclipse Marketplace even though I have thoroughly tested this plugin (I actually use it at work daily and it works AWESOME!). However, I have only tested it on Eclipse 3.4 and Eclipse 3.6 on Windows Vista and IBM's Rational Application Developer (RAD) on Windows XP so I feel I have to leave it set at 'beta'. I have no reason to expect issues with this plugin on other platform/version combinations, but if you do run into an issue, please reply to this blog or eroplugin@gmail.com so I can get it fixed.
Feel free to point out any bugs and/or feature requests.
To be sure, there are other eclipse plugins out there that help out with this, but not to the extent that this plugin does. I think it provides a few extra levels of customization that make this plugin more useful, but I'll let all of the members of the java/eclipse community decide for themselves.
This plugin, called ERO (eclipse resource organizer) allows me to create 'editor groups' where only certain files are shown in the editor group. The groups are defined by ANT like inclusion/exclusion filters and can be setup/maintained quickly. For example, you can define a group called 'Java' that contains all \**\*.java files or create a group called 'Web Services' that contains both .wsdl and .xsd files.
In addition, the plugin allows you to 'colorize' editors whose associated file matches ANT like inclusion/exclusion filters. For example, you might designate all 'hibernate' xml files to be dark green.
If people find this plugin useful, I plan on updating it. I also have many additional Resource/Editor plugins rolling around in my head that I will be starting on next. The goal is to have a collection of at least 4 views with a similar style to this one, but providing different functionality. Stay tuned.
I have marked this plugin as 'beta' on the Eclipse Marketplace even though I have thoroughly tested this plugin (I actually use it at work daily and it works AWESOME!). However, I have only tested it on Eclipse 3.4 and Eclipse 3.6 on Windows Vista and IBM's Rational Application Developer (RAD) on Windows XP so I feel I have to leave it set at 'beta'. I have no reason to expect issues with this plugin on other platform/version combinations, but if you do run into an issue, please reply to this blog or eroplugin@gmail.com so I can get it fixed.
Feel free to point out any bugs and/or feature requests.
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