Archive for September, 2008
Package sorter plugin
Packagesorter in action
While working on EPoS, I found it very confusing that Eclipse does not sort multiple source directories alphabetically. The little PackageSorter plugin helps here and can be used in Eclipse Ganymede (>=3.4). The plugin is available on our update site:
http://java.randgestalten.de/updatesite
Add this site in the Eclipse Software Update dialog and install the Packagesorter plugin. If the plugin is successfully installed, it provides a button in to top toolbar of the java package explorer. If activated, it will sort your source directories in alphabetic order instead of using the build-path order, which seems to be the default.
As long as you only deal with one source directory, you will see no use in this plugin, but when your project consists of multiple source directories, which are all included in the projects build path, this might be helpful.
Eclipse Plugins update site
I just set up an update site for our tiny eclipse plugins. The update site URL is
http://java.randgestalten.de/updatesite
and it includes the package sorter plugin and the bounded setter generator – and might include more at some point – we’ll see.