Thursday, March 13, 2003

Eclipse Again. I LOVE Eclipse.  The more I get into it the more I rediscover some joy in coding.  Man, I know that sounds pretty cheesy.  The thing is, know and love the refactorings.  Control-hover over something with the mouse and click it.  Get into its CVS integration (we have a pretty massive, over 1GB CVS system, Eclipse lets me toy around with just the bits I want to). We thought we needed source link folders, but we don't.  I have two big output directories that store everything from our build process.  I make them part of my classpath.  I then use the cvs checkout facility to get a specific part of our software.  I set up exclusion filters to get it the way that I want it...and I am in heaven when my build-debug cycle is cut to nothing when I can push a routine into a running VM (which is most of the time).  Good ole typeless Smalltalk could do this way back when, but I'll take anything I can get. 11:15:26 PM