I want to create a test server for my application. Using embedding Http server in equinox is my first option. I had experience using simple http service implementation of equinox, however I want to play with Jetty this time. Following the guide of Equinox server, I can't running a Jetty server with my servlet in …

Sometimes I need access the Intranet of company, however I don't like to create VPN connection. The connection is slow, waste time to create the connection and have to change password due to security policy. My workstation is Linux, which has a lot of utility tools to help me access Intranet at home without VPN. …

An internal Gerrit server was moved, so the hostname of server is changed. However we are using OpenID for user control, the OpenID provider(such as Google account) will generate a new token for the new server(hostname changing will impact the identity token of Google account) when we login Gerrit with same OpenID …

The problem came from I tried to set up send mail server(SMTP) for my Gerrit server. My Gerrit server is using OpenID for user authorization, so I registered a new email account to send notification from Gerrit. Most of email service providers require the secure authorization when using its SMTP server to send mail. …

I successfully converted our product build from PDE build to Maven/Tycho. Something is worth to be documented here. There are several examples and posts to demonstrate how using Tycho building your Eclipse plug-ins, features, applications and products. The most helpful example is the demo of Tycho project. Below are …

Several days ago I had a post to record the unsuccessful experience to migrate source code from Clearcase to Git. We have a new way after doing some brain storms. This way still is not a perfect solution, but it's much better than previous trial. Use clearexport_ccase to export the source folder to intermittent data. …

I tried to migrate the source code of project from Clearcase to Git repository. As far as I know there is no elegant solution for such migration. For purpose of this migration, I want to keep the history and label of files in Clearcase after migrating to Git repository. There are mature tools to migrate CVS/SVN …

Our p2 based on installer suffered performance issue when querying IUs from repositories. Though the repositories have a large number of IUs to be queried, but we find the performance of using QL is unacceptable in some special scenarios. I published several different methods to find the expected IUs. Thomas pointed …

Yesterday I modified an existing c++ application for Windows. And its default build environment is Makefile and MinGW. However I used a newly Windows API that is not included by header files of MinGW. First of all, I copied the constant definition from header file of Windows SDK, and defined the Windows API method as a …

The documentation of PDE has a chapter for this topic. Basically it's simply. Copy the template scripts what you want from templates/headless-build folder under org.eclipse.pde.build plug-in to your build configuration directory that is the folder has build.properties file. However I found the variables listed in …