How to Safely Use SWT’s Display asyncExec

Most user interface (UI) toolkits are single-threaded and SWT is no exception. This means that UI objects must be accessed…

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gonsole weeks: content assist for git commands

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command…

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How to manage Git Submodules with JGit

For a larger project with Git you may find yourself wanting to share code among multiple repositories. Whether it is…

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Using the AutoValue Code Generator in Eclipse

My colleague Moritz of EclipseSource recently came across Google Auto, a collection of Java code generators. AutoValue is one of…

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A JUnit Rule to Conditionally Ignore Tests

I always believed that using @Ignore to deactivate tests is a bad idea. Except, maybe as one way to put…

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An Introduction to the JGit Sources

JGit is a pure Java library implementing the Git version control system. It is an Eclipse project and started out…

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Configure Your OSGi Services with Apache Felix File Install

A recent post about Managed Services reminded me of a feature in Apache Felix File Install that I found worth…

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An Automated OSGi Test Runner

Among my fellow team members I was known for notoriously forgetting to maintain the (JUnit) test suite. I just can’t…

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