http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:42:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US For the last couple of months I have been working on getting our JGears for Eclipse products ready for "shipping". I say "shipping" because unlike previous releases of JBuilder, which have always had a physical disc in a box that is literally shipped to customers and resellers, we are selling ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/09/07/38824 One weakness of JBuilder 2007/Eclipse 3.2 is that users cannot modify the Visual Editor (VE) palette dynamically via the UI, like you can with JBuilder 2006. Even though you can add any bean in the Visual Editor via Choose Bean, it's nice to be able to drag them off a ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/06/08/35751 One of the annoying differences for me between JBuilder 2006 and JBuilder 2007 has been one way Content Assist (JB2007/Eclipse terminology) functions in comparison to CodeInsight (JB2006 terminology). In JB2006, when you invoke CodeInsight in the middle of an expression and select a method, JB2006 overwrites the relevant part of ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/02/27/32416 The JBuilder team would love to get feedback on how we’re doing with the usability of JBuilder 2007. We've created a really short survey (12 questions) to get that feedback, it's here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=109923283362 http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/02/15/31849 In an earlier blog I complained about JBuilder 2007/Eclipse not having the "Quick Step into" feature that is in JBuilder 2006. Well, it turns out I was wrong. In doing his Making the switch to JBuilder 2007 video, Ken Chan found out how. Not only does JB2007 have the feature, ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/02/08/31700 In response to my last blog on Externalizable, a comment by Benoit pointed out some issues that I forgot to cover. You need to call super.writeExternal() and super.readExternal() if you want fields from the base class(es) initialized too. It doesn't matter if where you invoke the super method, as long ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/02/02/31644 One of the features in JBuilder 2006 is peer-to-peer. JBuilder 2006 allows users to exchange messages, edit a file remotely, debug remotely, etc. (Yes, JBuilder 2007 also has peer-to-peer, but the main purpose of this particular post is to discuss a serialization issue we first discovered in implementing peer-to-peer in ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/01/24/31505 I got an e-mail about my blog on JDK 5 features asking for details on how to replace StringBuffer with StringBuilder in a large codebase. I am going to use it as an opportunity to talk a little about regular expressions, even though: Many, if not most of you, reading this ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/01/16/31394 I've been doing some research on preparing the JBuilder 2007 update site. In general, the whole Eclipse update mechanism is pretty slick. If you set it up correctly, the user only has to do Help | Software Updates | Find and Install | Search for updates of the currently installed ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2007/01/05/31211 In a previous blog, I talked about the most common keystrokes I use in day-to-day programming with JBuilder 2007/Eclipse. I've got a couple more that I left out. I personally find these extremely useful. You'd think these were all obvious and there's no need to point them out, but ... http://blogs.codegear.com/charlesoverbeck/2006/12/15/30631