Using Oracle SQL Developer as MySQL IDE

Need to follow below steps:

- Download desired MySQL connector, unzip and place to desired directory.

- From SQLDeveloper -> Tools -> Preferences -> Databases -> Third party JDBC driver.

  "Add Entry" for desired MySQL connector.

That's It!!!

Now you can observe MySQL tab in the DB Connections SQLDeveloper window.

References:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/configuring-sql-developer-for-mysql/564

Cheers!

Eclipse Performance Enhancement!

Hi,

Most of the time we suffer from Eclipse responsiveness or performance.

Below is the link for changing Eclipse Memory settings in "eclipse.ini" file:

https://gist.github.com/justingarrick/2588828

Notepad++ : Another good tool discovered for developers

This is very handy tool having rich file types support and syntax highlighting.

I found it quite handy if you are dealing with any Character Encoding related issues or 

Need to verify or view various characters like TAB, Carriage Return(CR), Line Feed(LF) or New Line Characters.

It also supports very reach support for Character Encoding.

Listed below the features from its official website:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding: screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 and screenshot 4
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace
• GUI entirely customizable: minimalist, tab with close button, multi-line tab, vertical tab and vertical document list
• Document Map
• Auto-completion: Word completion, Function completion and  Function parameters hint
• Multi-Document (Tab interface)
• Multi-View
• WYSIWYG (Printing)
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Macro recording and playback
• Launch with different arguments

You can DOWNLOAD this from below link:

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.3.1.html

Productive Eclipse Plug-Ins : Easy Explorer !!!

Easy Explorer is a very useful plug in, which helps you to browse resources with the native Operating system explorer.
In the Eclipse, select a file, right-mouse click, and select the 'Easy Explore'.
This way explorer will be opened and you desired file will be highlighted.

Direct Download link for this file : Easy Explorer for Eclipse(easy-explore-1.0.4)

Likewise there is also another plug-in : StartExplorer
StartExplorer is also having lots of options, but I feel Easy Explorer is more friendly as it can be used in the tree browser as well as in editor as well.

Java IDE selection :)

This article contains mostly the links of articles which are about the IDE selection & comparison of their features.

Java developers are generally used to with the IDEs : Eclipse, NetBeans, Intellij IDEA.

Most of the developers use Eclipse & Jetbrains' Intellij IDEA.

So lets view the following link to compare those.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecidea/?ca=dgr-lnxw06IDEA2Eclipse

http://trusoftware.blogspot.com/2006/11/eclipse-vs-intellij-idea.html

http://www.javafaq.nu/java-article1009.html

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/IDEA+Integration

http://memo.feedlr.com/?p=4

http://librenix.com/?inode=5533

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/11/eclipse-vs-intellij/

http://blog.tremend.ro/2006/08/10/intellij-idea-versus-eclipse-part-i/