Negative progress using Subversive :)

Recently I ran into I/O performance problems using Subclipse, so I decided to give a try to the "another" SVN plugin for Eclipse, Subversive. Although I miss some minor features (eg. tagging/branching in the repository is a little bit comfortable in Subclipse) and sometimes merging has unusual results, but I can say I'm satisfied with it.

One funny thing I noticed when sharing a project was a negative percent value in the progress bar:

Anyway, the sharing operation completed as expected, so who cares if it takes "more than 100%" :)

Efficient GWT development with Eclipse-Maven integration

In this article I present an efficient GWT development environment based on Eclipse and Maven, with tight integration between them.

Goals

• Maven-friendly Eclipse project
• easy development using Eclipse and WTP
• ability to build the entire project using Maven (eg. for deployment or nightly builds)

It should be noted that there are many ways for efficient integration of the given technologies, I present here only one of them.
If you want to skip the 'boring' step-by-step explanation, simply check out the project from SVN :)

Eclipse may freeze if console output is not limited

I have an application which continually generates a large amount of log. During development the log was written to the Eclipse console. In order not to lose any log output, I turned off the limit console output feature:

I started the application but I had to go away from my computer. When I got back I saw a message about memory is out, and it is recommended to restart the workbench. To tell the truth, I didn't have a choice: all functions of Eclipse became unusable.

It's very minor issue - and probably an expectable behaviour - but it's good to know that Eclipse takes this setting literally, and there is no protection against OutOfMemoryExceptions :).