Creating a local Eclipse Update site

After having to work out how to do this again, I thought I’d give a step-by-step guide to creating an Eclipse Update site populated by existing plugins. For this example, I’ll create an update site for the Weblogic Eclipse plugin
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My vote for best architecture of the 20th century

It’s simple, highly flexible, and extremely versatile.
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Annotations won’t kill XDoclet

Euxx is worried that there will be stuff lost in the head-long plunge into annotations. Annotations won’t be the death of XDoclet, nor for that matter will they be the death of deployment descriptions.
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What I don’t like about TestNG

Seeing all the comments today about using annotations to declare test cases reminded me that I never got around to writing about what I didn’t like about TestNG

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It’s not the ComboBox’s fault

Weiqi Gao complains that combo boxes are lame because you can’t type in them. He gives a good example of the state abbrevation MO for Missouri; in a typical drop-down list of US states, you need to go through seven M’s to get there.

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Does JUnit need annotations?

Filippo Diotalevi wrote about a wishlist for a better JUnit and he mentioned Cedric’s pet idea of using annotations to identify test cases.
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Controlling your log4j settings

Nick over at the System Mobile Web Log was having trouble with Log4J and his unit tests. Seems that he was getting the log4j.properties file from XDoclet, instead of the one he wanted.

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Wow… Free Visual Studio versions

One of the great strengths of the Java community is the quality of the free (as in both speech and beer) development environments, Eclipse and NetBeans. Although Microsoft let you have the .NET SDK for free (as in beer), there was no free IDE. Until now.

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Don’t you hate it when your expectations crash?

I just discovered that Checkstyle doesn’t (yet) support Java 1.5. I found myself shocked by this for some reason; the Checkstyle project is such an active and evolving one that I just didn’t think they wouldn’t have put in some 1.5 support yet.

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