A first shot on eclipse xml tempaltes

Most of text-types under eclipse can be templated throw the Window->Preference menu. Those templates can next be imported/exported. I have make a first shot for my work on plone, because next week i have a lot of profiles to write for some old style products. My first shot is available here under GNU GPL license.

Those xml templates are for:

• cssregistry.xml
• factorytool.xml
• jsregistry.xml
• skins
• types/MyTypes.xml
• types.xml
• workflows.xml

The rest will come later:

• workflows/MyWF/definitions.xml
• toolset
• rolemap
• properties
• propertiestool
• memberdata_properties
• mailhost
• import_step
• export_step
• control_panel
• contenttyperegistry
• catalog
• action_icons
• actions

As i have said this one is a first shot, done in one hour, just to test, so now it needs to be improved.

Mylyn make eclipse out of memory

This week i have discover that mylyn project is include in most of eclipse bundle. But this plugin make eclipse starve for memory… By the menu window->preferenc-> Show heap status, i have discover the acceleo bundle starting with a need of 180 MO with nothing opened. With a common eclipse (Pydev, WTP), my eclipse has an heap status of 35MO. With my project of doing a Plone2.5 generator with Acceleo, i want to have a UML editor (papyrus or topcased ?) and acceleo running perfectly.

You can find some pages about this memory problem with mylyn: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mylyn2/

So start your eclipse, take a cofee, and then go to help-> software and update -> manage configuration. Desactive all mylyn integration plugin to be able to desactive mylyn plugin itself. Then restart your eclipse, it s ok.

With the acceleo bundle i have desactivate subversive, and mylyn, i m now around 40MO on the heap status. Now i m ready to make UML diagrams.

command line, copy faster

When you use the command line, and you know how to use it, you can be a lot more powerfull to make today’s task than with a common window manager. For example when you want to copy/paste a folder from one path to another, the command line goes really faster.

$ cp myfolder /path/to/another

cp command is really simple to learn and to use, compare to rsync command, but rsync is a lot faster. So i want here to show you a tip to fake cp using rsync. You just have to make an alias. On my laptop i m using OpenSuse10.3, so i just edit the file ‘.alias’ in my home folder to put this in it:

alias cp=”rsync -az”

Now i m continue to use cp, but faster than you ;)

Install Eclipse Europa under Linux

Hi there, i have pass long time to try install my eclipse this week, so i want to keep a trace of this work. Here is it, a list of modules name with correct versions (that are working together).

• eclipse 3.3.1.1 (needeed for sure)
• acceleo-runtime-2.1.1
  • mdt-uml2-SDK-2.1.1 (uml2 support)
  • emf-sdo-xsd-SDK-2.3.1.zip (modeling framework)
• wtp-wst-M-2.0.2 (web source editors like xml, html, …)
• subclipse-1.2.4 (svn support)
• pydev-1_3_10 (python support)

I will now give you some links to install all that:

• eclipse
• acceleo
• mdt-uml2
• emf …
• wtp
• subclipse
• pydev

That s it. I need to add Mylyn support (mylyn + pydev support), and a UML2 modeler (like topcased) to be ready for MDA production ! But i have a pb with GMF on downloads. I hope it will be soon fixed.

toutpt@work migrate to wordpress

Hi there,

my last blog on blogspot tired me. I have try to share my post about Acceleo on planet acceleo . This can work, but you need to search which url for the RSS to give to just have the posts related to the category ‘acceleo’. Next i have discovered the html code generated by blogspot. It’s kind of a ‘pre’ formated. img are span tags.

All those reasons have decided me to change. So now lets going on pure plone, acceleo posts and see if wordpress is better than blogspot