This helps you to stay focused on the actual code and does not expose you to the inner workings where you might not even have the source. With “Step Filters” you can filter out types that you do not wish to see, or step through while debugging. You’ll find this setting in: Preferences > Java > Appearance > Type Filters 4.

Especially as an RCP / SWT developer you most likely don’t want suggestions for Swing components like Button, Label, etc. classes, interfaces) from the “Open Type” dialog, content assist and quick fix proposals. Type Filters remove suggestions for certain types (e.g. This is in: Preferences > General > Workspace 3. You can save some keystrokes and mouse clicks by enabling Save automatically before build. This behavior seems to originate from experiences where an application was started from the workspace without saving and of course, changes were then lost. One thing I noticed is that people (including me) are constantly hitting Ctrl+S to save or even worse - grabbing the mouse to hit the Save action in the toolbar. You’ll find the settings in: Preferences > General > Workspace or in your project specific settings. Using UTF-8 will prevent problems with special characters if you deploy to a system that runs a different OS, run your build on a UNIX machine or if somebody else works on the code using a different OS. To accomodate this, set the file encoding to UTF-8. However, you usually want to create a platform independent application. The default setting for saving files in your Eclipse workspace is to use the file encoding of the underlying operating system. Note: Click on the images to reveal a larger screenshot.

So, I thought I would write about my top 10 recommendations that will make your programming life easier and make you more productive. The main problem was that they hadn’t yet learned about Eclipse’s capabilities and how to leverage its powerful features.

I’ve met many programmers over the years who had just started using Eclipse or already had “some experience” - but they used Eclipse just as a text editor or handled it in a very cumbersome way.

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