2015-10-18

Eclipse Mars: version 4.5.0 Release on June 24th 2015 – Hands on

Eclipse Mars Release on June 24th 2015 - Crunchify.com
Hurray – Eclipse Mars release on 24th June – the big major Eclipse release. There are quite a few under the hood changes happened on Eclipse Mars project.

Major changes into Eclipse Mars Project:

  • Brand new hierarchical view of nested projects
  • Improved Maven archetypes integration and enhanced auto-completion in the pom editor
  • Ability to customize perspectives and speed improvements for text search
  • Best new tools for building and maintaining Docker containers
  • New ability to record and share user preference settings across individual workspaces
  • Improved Maven support, including support for Maven 3.3.3
  • Nice and Automated way for error reporting

How to update Workspace from Eclipse Luna (Previous release) to Mars?

Step-1

I’m using Macbook Pro so my downloaded package: eclipse-jee-mars-R-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz

Step-2

Extract above .tar.gz file and you will see just Eclipse.app file.
Eclipse.app

Step-3

During startup just provide your previous Eclipse’s work space and click ok and you should be all good.
Eclipse Workspace - Luna to Mars
So far all my ~20 projects imported successfully to Eclipse Mars without any issue. Compilation worked just fine. Only thing which I had to do is to just install Apache Tomcat again on Eclipse Mars. If you face any issue while installing Tomcat then follow the tutorial.
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How to Configure BitBucket Git Repository in your Eclipse Environment? Git version control with Eclipse (EGit)



Bitbucket is a distributed version control system (DVCS) code hosting site that supports Mercurial and GitWith Mercurial and Git, your data is distributed by definition but you still need a place to share it and keep track of your development. That is where Bitbucket comes in.
You may need to check why I choose bitbucket over github.
Bitbucket provides a fully-featured environment for managing your development project, including a code repository, a wiki (naturally backed by Mercurial and Git – you can clone it), a powerful issue tracker and easy collaboration with others.
Simply put, Bitbucket takes the pain out of sharing code and lets you focus on what you do best: Code. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts. It offers free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories (which can have up to five users in the case of free accounts).

Here are quick steps to setup BitBucket Repository to you Eclipse Environment.

 

 Step-1

Register for Bitbucket.

 

Step-2

Create Private/Public repository

 

Step-3

On Overview page https://bitbucket.org/dashboard/overview, look for your repository information.
Bitbucket Dashboard Overview page
Mouse hover will give you Repository URL which we will use later to import project into Eclipse.

Step-4

Now let’s make Eclipse ready for Git.
  • Open Eclipse
  • Click on Help menu
  • Click Install New Software
Eclipse Install New Software

Step-5

Install eGit into Eclipse. Git version control with Eclipse (EGit) – Tutorial.  How to use bitBucket with EGit in Eclipse.
URL: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates
Eclipse - Add Repository

Step-6

Select Eclipse Git Team Provider and JGit form option and click next and finish install.
Eclipse Install Git

Step-7

Now Open Perspective and choose Git from list.
Eclipse Git Prospective

Step-8

Click Clone Repository Button
Clone Git Repository to Eclipse and Add to View

Step-9

Enter your Bitbucket URL and User Information as mentioned in below diagram. Click Next and Finish. No need to change other configuration in next window.
Clone Repository Options Page in Eclipse

Step-10

You should see your Bitbucket repository now in eclipse.
Checked Out Bitbucket repository in Eclipse

Step-11

Now you may want to import the project so you can work on the source code.
  1. Click
    1. ‘Windows’ >
    2. ‘Open Perspective’ >
    3. ‘Resource’
  2. Click
    1. ‘File’ >
    2. ‘Import’ >
    3. ‘Git’ >
    4. ‘Projects from Git’ >
    5. ‘Existing local repository’ >
    6. ‘Select a Git Repository’ >
    7. ‘Import as General Project’ >
    8. ‘Next’ >
    9. ‘Finish’
  3. The code should then appear in your ‘Project Explorer’ window as a normal project
  4. Now make changes to your file as you want
  5. Look at ‘Git Staging’ view to see your changed files and Click ‘Commit and Push
Git Staging View in Eclipse
Do let me know if you encounter any issue while setting this up. Now what? Now setup SmartGit with your BitBucket repository to do all kind of commit, put, etc GIT operations.

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

This page will walk through the getting started with Git and Eclipse EGit integration tutorial using GitHub. Now days most of the software developer/student writes code on the Eclipse IDE and make their coding experience easy. We have a lots of valuable project and code that we programed and experiments on the system. But sometime we face the problem with our system (like system damaged, virus attack, HHD failure, etc.). In this situation we lost the project as well as code. But we have an alternate method to back up our project/code manually. Manual back up process is too lengthy and time consuming process.
Using Git Hub we may save our time and it's very easy process to store our projects/code online and access from anywhere. Now the problem is How to Install and Integrate Git Hub in Eclipse.
If you don't know the Git installation and integration don't worries, this page will help you with the concrete process.
If you are using the latest Eclipse (Mars) then need not to install the EGit otherwise you need to install EGit Plugin in your Eclipse IDE.

What is Git?

1- Git is version control system.
2- Git maintain the history.
3- Check In and Check Out control.
4- It provides an intermediate Git repository i.e. local git repository.
5- Git supports rapid branching and merging, and includes specific tools for visualizing and navigating a non-linear development history.
6- Repositories can be published via HTTP, FTP, rsync.
7- Efficient handling of large projects.

Mechanism of Git

While working with Git we will have 2 repositories

1- Git Remote Repository
2- Git Local Repository

Git is strong version control system that is secure as well. When we clone the Remote repository Git will create a local repository in the system. Creating a local repository in system will save damage of remote code. Suppose you are working with Project 1 and change the code of Project 1 and you want to review it but suddenly you have assigned for Project 2 then what you will do with those changes that you make in Project 1. Here we use the Git local repository. We commit the changes of Project 1 to Git local repository and start working with Project 2. Whenever Project 2 has completed then we rebase the Project 1 changes to our workspace.

Basic Requirements

1- Eclipse IDE
2- EGit Plugin
3- Gradle Build Tool
4- JDK 6
5- Git Hub account.

Eclipse Git Integration

To integrate the Git in Eclipse follow the below steps to better understating.
1- Go to Help >> Install New Software
2- Paste the below URL in Work with
http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates
3- Check all and proceed the Next
4- Wait until the installation has been finished. When the installation process has been finished restart the Eclipse.
5- To ensure that Git is successfully installed or not, go to Windows >> Show View >> Other >> Git. And you get five list in Git

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

Working with Git in Eclipse using Github

Working with Git in Eclipse is very easy and reliable process. All the steps will described clearly below.

Create Github Account

To work with Github you need to create a Github account(https://github.com/). When you have successfully create the account now create a Repository inside the account. After successfully creation of repository click on it and in the bottom of right side you will find the URL of the repository. Copy that URL for cloning in Eclipse. Note : Do not forget to create a README.md file inside the repository.

Clone Git Repository

1- Open the Eclipse >> Windows >> Show View
2- If you find the Git in list click on it otherwise click on Other
3- Find the Git >> Git Repositories
4- Click on the Clone a Git repository

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

5- Fill required detail and proceed Next

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

6- Followed Next check the master and again click the Next.
7- Set the location of your local workspace and check the Projects >> Import all existing Eclipse project after clone finishes >> Finish
8- When the process has been finished it will import all project if exist in the repository other you need to create the project.
9- To create and import the project go to the Git Repository >> Working Directory >> Right click on it >> Import Project >> Next >> Finish
10- Now your Repository/Project will show in eclipse navigator/project explorer.
11- Create a folder src/main/java
12- Start making the java class and check-in the code on Git Hub.

Use Gradle to Set Classpath and .project in Eclipse

Gradle build tool is the most popular build tool that is used in software industry. To download Gradle build tool got to the below link https://gradle.org/ Steps for Gradle-

1- Set the path of Gradle in Environment Variable.
2- Now create the file in your root directory named build.gradle in Eclipse.
3- Paste the below code in build.gradle file and save it.
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
archivesBaseName = 'Concretepage.com'
version = '1.0'
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
4- Now open Command Prompt >> go to your project >> type gradle eclipse >> Enter

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

5- Gradle will set all the setting that is required.
6- Now your project is a Java project and you are able to create the package as well as class.

Check-In and Check-Out Code from and To Remote Git Repository(Github)

This figure is clearly show that the work flow process of Git.

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

Check-In

Check In is a process to send the code in Git repository. How to check in your code look at below steps
1- To check in the code you will need Git Staging Tab in your Eclipse.
2- To get Git Staging Tab. Go to Window >> Show View >> Other >> Git >> Git Staging
3- Refresh your project. All the file will come in Unstaged Changes >> select all and drop in Staged Changes, >> write the Commit Message >> Commit and Push

Getting Started With Git and Eclipse EGit Integration Tutorial using GitHub

Check-Out

Check-out is a process that brings the code from Remote Git to local workspace and it has two processes.
Fetch from Upstream: As in above figure we can see that Git has a local workspace. When we fetch the date it will come to the Git local workspace/repository.
Rebase: Rebase is a process that fetch the data from Git local repository to Eclipse workspace.

Show History and Compare Code using Git in Eclipse

Show in History : This feature will show all the commit history that you had committed. While clicking on the commit you will see the changes.
Compare with HEAD Revision: This will compare from the current code from workspace and existing code from remote section.
Compare with PREVIOUS Revision: It is just opposite of Compare with Head Revision, it will compare the previous code of remote and local workspace.

Expected Error

If the project extension is not a Java Project then it will show you such type of message Source folder is not a Java project. To make the source folder as a Java project and set all setting of Eclipse properly you need to run Gradle Build Tool.

EGit Tutorial

EGit is the Git integration for the Eclipse IDE, see http://eclipse.org/egit. This Tutorial describes the basic use cases for EGit. It requires only some basic knowledge about the Git processes. Please help us to keep this tutorial up-to-date by reporting any issues or questions. This tutorial is available now as a downloadable PDF.

Installing EGit in Eclipse

EGit is already included in the Eclipse Juno Release, so you do not need to install it. If you use an older version of Eclipse, open the Eclipse Wizard to install new software Help => Install New Software. Insert http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates after Work with: and hit Return. Select Eclipse EGit as a child from Eclipse Team Git Provider. You don’t have to install any other plugins. Click Next and confirm your selection in the following window by pressing Next again. Finally, accept the terms of use and the license agreement and click Finish to start the installation. After the installation has finished restart Eclipse.

EGit Configuration

Every commit in EGit will include the user’s name and his email-address. These attributes can be set in the Preferences-window Window => Preferences. Navigate to Team => Git => Configuration and hit the New Entry… Button. Enter user.name as Key and your name as Value and confirm. Repeat this procedure with user.email and your email address and click OK in the Preferences window. The username and email should be the same you use for your Git account, ie. your GitHub account.

Creating Local Repositories

One major advantage of Git compared to SVN or CVS is that you can easily create local repositories, even before you share them with other people. In this way, you can version your work locally. First, you have to create a project in Eclipse that you want to share via your local repository. For later purposes it would be useful to add some files, e.g. a Java class to your project.
After you have created your project, select the context menu by right clicking it and navigate to Team => Share Project… . Select Git as the repository type and hit Next. In the following window select your project, hit the Create Repository-button and click Finish.
The newly created repository will be empty, although the project is assigned to it.  (Note the changed icons: the project node will have a repository icon, the child nodes will have an icon with a question mark, ignored files, e.g. the bin directory, won’t have any icons at all.) Before you can commit the files to your repository, you need to add them. Simply right click the shared project’s node and navigate to Team => Add. After this operation, the question mark should change to a plus symbol. To set certain folders or files to be ignored by Git, e.g. the bin folder, right click them and select Navigate => Ignore. The ignored items will be stored in a file called gitignore, which you should add to the repository. The last thing to do is commit the project by right clicking the project node and selecting Team => Commit… from the context menu. In the Commit wizard, all files should be selected automatically. Enter a commit message (the first line should be headline-like, as it will appear in the history view) and hit the Commit button. If the commit was successful, the plus symbols will have turned into repository icons.

Commit

Now you can start to modify files in your project. To save changes made in your workspace to your repository, you will have to commit them. After changing files in your project, a “>” sign will appear right after the icon, telling you the status of these files is dirty. Any parent folder of this file will be marked as dirty as well.


If you want to commit the changes to your repository, right click the project (or the files you want to commit) and select Team => Commit… . This will open a new window, allowing you to select the files you want to commit. Before you can commit the files, you will have to enter a commit message in the upper textbox. After you’re done, click Commit to commit the selected files to your repository.
Note that the status of the changed file is Mod., not staged. By staging the files before you commit (see the section “Additional Information”), you can change the status to Modified (and the dirty sign to a staged icon).
If you later realize that your previous commit was incomplete (e.g. you forgot to commit a file) or your commit message was wrong, you might want to use Amend previous commit. This will merge the current commit and the previous commit into one, so you don’t have to perform an extra commit (and maybe cause confusion). However, this should only be used if the previous commit hasn’t already been published to a shared repository.
Another option is Show untracked files. By checking this checkbox, new files you created but did not add yet, will be available for you to select in the Commit window.

Adding Files

To add a new file to the repository, you will have to create it in your shared project first. The new file will, again, appear with a question mark.
Right click it and navigate to Team => Add. The question mark will turn into a plus symbol and the file will be tracked by Git, but it is not yet committed. All of the file’s parent folders should now have a symbol that looks like an asterisk indicating that it is ‘staged’. In the next commit, the file will be added to the repository and the plus symbol will turn into a repository icon. The repository icons of all the file’s parents (packages/project…) will turn into staged icons. EGit also allows selecting untracked files to be added in the commit dialog if you turn on the option “Show untracked files”. In this case, they will be added and committed at the same time.
[ Looking for more tools like EGit? See our Eclipse Tools page. | Need expert advice for a project? Our Developer Support is here to resolve your questions. ]

Reverting Changes

If you want to revert any changes, there are two options. You can compare each file you want to revert with the HEAD revision (or the index, more in the section “index”) and undo some or all changes done. Second, you can hard reset your project, causing any changes in the working directory to be reverted.

Revert via Compare

Right click the file you want to revert and select Compare With => HEAD Revision. This will open a comparison with the HEAD Revision, highlighting any changes done. If you want to completely revert your file, hit the Copy All Non-Conflicting Changes from Right to Left-button in the Java Source Compare toolbar. If you only want to revert several lines, select each line individually and hit the Copy Current Change from Right to Left button (in the toolbar) for each line. To complete the Revert operation, you will have to save either the comparison or your local copy of the file.

Revert via Reset

To reset all changes made to your project, right click the project node and navigate to Team => Reset… . Select the branch you want to reset to (if you haven’t created any other branches, there will be just one) and choose Hard as a reset type. By confirming this operation, all changes will be reset to this branch’s last commit, including all changes done in the workspace (and index, more on that in the section “index”). Be careful with this option as all changes in your workspace will be lost.

Cloning Repositories

Note:
For this and some of the following sections (especially Fetch/Push), you might want to use https://github.com to create your own remote repository. Public repositories are free at GitHub and performing the actions might help you gain some insights.
In order to checkout a remote project, you will have to clone its repository first. Open the Eclipse Import wizard (e.g. File => Import), select Git => Projects from Git and click Next. Select “URI” and click next. Now you will have to enter the repository’s location and connection data. Entering the URI will automatically fill some fields. Complete any other required fields and hit Next. If you use GitHub, you can copy the URI from the web page.
Select all branches you wish to clone and hit Next again.
Hit the Clone… button to open another wizard for cloning Git repositories.
Choose a local directory to save this repository in.
To import the projects, select the cloned repository and hit Next. Select Import Existing Projects and hit Next. Please note that there needs to be existing projects in your repository, and if you use your own repository it might be empty, so you have to create an initial branch. In the following window, select all projects you want to import and click Finish. The projects should now appear in the Navigator/Package Explorer. (Note the repository symbol in the icons indicating that the projects are already shared.)

Creating Branches

To create a new branch in your repository, right click a shared project and navigate to Team => Switch to => New Branch… from the context menu. Select the branch you want to create a new branch from, hit New branch and enter a name for the new branch.
The new branch should appear in the branch selection window. If you would like to checkout the newly created branch, select it and click Checkout.

Merge

To merge one branch into another, you will have to checkout the branch you want to merge with. Right click the project node and navigate to Team => Merge… . Select any branch (other than the checked out branch) and hit Merge.
The merge will execute and a window will pop-up with the results. The possible results are Already-up-to-date, Fast-forward, Merged, Conflicting, Failed. A Conflicting result (see image below) will leave the merge process incomplete. You will have to resolve the conflicts (see next section). A Failed result may occur when there are already conflicting changes in the working directory.

Resolving Conflicts

If your merge resulted in conflicts (note the red symbols on the file icons), you will have to resolve these manually. Open the conflicting files and scroll to the conflicting changes marked with “<<<<<<<”.
After you are finished the manual part of the merge, you will have to tell Git that the conflicts are resolved. To do so, Add the files and Commit to complete your merge.

Fetch and Pull

When cloning remote repositories, Git creates copies of the branches as local branches and as remote branches. A Fetch operation will update the remote branches only. To update your local branches as well, you will have to perform a Merge operation after fetching. The operation Pull combines Fetch and Merge. To perform a Fetch, select Team => Fetch From… from the project’s context menu. Enter the repository you want to fetch branches from. (If you cloned this repository, the remote branch will be selected as default.) In the following window you will have to select what you want to fetch. As default, all branches are selected. The result of the Fetch-operation will be shown in a final confirmation window. Follow the same steps to apply a Pull.

Push

Local changes made to your local branches can be pushed to remote repositories causing a merge from your branches into the branches of the remote repository (X pulls from Y is the same as Y pushes to X). The Push wizard is pretty much the same as the Fetch wizard. First, right click the project node and navigate to Team=> Push… . Enter the repository you want to push your branches to (the default for this will be the same as the Fetch default if you didn’t configure a Push default) and hit Next. Choose the branches you want to push or click Add all branches spec if you want to push all branches. You can also select branches you want to delete from the remote repository. If you are done hit Finish. A final window will show the results of the Push.

Synchronize

Comparisons between your workspace and the local repository or between the current branch and others and are done via the Synchronize operation. If you right click Team => Sychronize Workspace, your local workspace will be compared with the current branch showing uncommitted changes. If you select Team => Advanced => Synchronize… . , you can select other branches to compare your current branch with. In this case you can also include local uncommitted changes.
To compare the branches you may want to switch to the Synchronizing perspective, where you can get a more detailed view of several changes.  Here is an example of a Synchronize operation in the Synchronizing perspective:

History View

To show any shared file’s history, right click it and select Team => Show in History. This will open the History View, giving an overview of the commits and allowing you to perform several actions (compare, creating branches/tags, reset…). Every commit you select comes up with a revision comment and revision details. The revision comment (bottom left corner) includes parents, children, commit message and changes whereas the revision details (bottom right corner) name the changed files and the actions performed upon them (A=ADD, M=MODIFY, D=DELETE). Selecting a file in the revision details will scroll the revision comment to the changes to that file.

Creating Patches

Any patch can only include one commit that is from a parent to its child. To create a patch you have to open the History View first (see previous section). Right click a commit you want to create a patch for (this must be a child with exactly one parent) and select Create Patch….
Select either Clipboard or File and hit Next and click Finish. The resulting patch can be applied to the parent commit via Team => Apply Patch….

Repository View

The repository view is useful when working with branches/tags and executing operations on them, as well as handling remote repositories and getting an overview of all your repositories. To open this view, select Team => Show in Repositories View from any file’s context menu.

Additional Information

Icon Decorations/Signs
ignored: The repository treats these files as if they were non-existent (e.g. the bin-directory by default). Add a .gitignore file or Team => Ignore to ignore a file.
 untracked: Any file known, but not yet recorded. To track a file, add it or select the Show untracked files-option in the commit-wizard and commit it directly.
 tracked: Any file known to and recorded by the repository.
 added: Any file known to the repository, but not yet committed. Perform a Commit to change this file’s status to tracked.
 removed: Any file that should be removed from the repository. For this icon to appear Team => Untrack has to be performed. By deleting the file from the workspace, the file will disappear (and therefore no icon will appear). However, it will still be removed from the repository with the next commit.
 dirty: Any tracked file with changes that have not yet been added to the index.
 staged: Any tracked file with changes that are already included in the index.
 partially-staged: Any tracked file with changes, where some changes are already included in the index,  and others that are not yet added.
 conflicted: Any file where the merge result caused a conflict. Resolve the conflicts and perform an Add operation to change this file’s status.
 assume-valid: Any modifications won’t be checked by Git. This option can be activated via Team => Assume unchanged. However, it can only be turned off via the command line. Performing a Reset operation resets this status as well.

Index

The index, sometimes referred to as staging area, is an area between the working directory and the repository. Any change made to any file will change this file’s status to dirty (see above). Any dirty file can be added to the index with an Add operation. The file’s status changes to staged. You can compare files to the index and reset the index without resetting the workspace. In the original Git, files had to be added to the index before performing a Commit operation. This is not necessary in EGit, as Team => Commit allows you to commit unstaged changes.

Reset Types

You can reset your current branch to any other branch, tag or commit you want. Right click any commit in the History View and select Reset. There are three options available:
Soft:
The current branch’s tip will point to this branch/tag/commit. Changes in the index and working directory, however, won’t be reset.
Mixed:
Same as a soft reset, only that the current index will be replaced by the selected branch/tag/commit’s index. The working directory stays unchanged.
Hard:
All changes will be reverted to the selected branch/tag/commit. Uncommitted changes will be lost, therefore this operation has to be confirmed.

Useful pages


Source: http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tutorials/egit-tutorial/