Eclipse Tips and Tricks

1. Eclipse Tips & Tricks
Lakshmi P Shanmugam
lshanmug@in.ibm.com
Eclipse Platform Committer & Co-lead
IBM India

2. How to quickly find
something in the Eclipse IDE?

3. Quick Access
Ctrl+3

4. Overview
➡ Configuring your workspace
➡ Code navigation
➡ Coding
➡ Java 8 & beyond
➡ Search
➡ Debugging
➡ Spies

5. Configuring your
Workspace

6. ➡ Give the workspace a name
➡ Import from existing installation
➡ Copy preferences from existing
workspace
➡ Working Sets
Workspace configuration

7. Code Navigation

8. Open Implementation
Ctrl + Hover
View Source
Shift + Hover
View Javadoc
Ctrl + Shift + Hover

9. Quick Outline
Ctrl + O
In-place Outline
Ctrl + F3
Quick Switch Editor
Ctrl + E

10. Coding

11. Coding
➡ Quick Assist
➡ Replace or Insert in content assist proposal
➡ Templates
➡ Type Filters
➡ Splitting the editor
➡ Autosave

12. Java 8 & Beyond

13. Java 8
➡ Convert anonymous class to lambda
& vice-versa
➡ Convert lambda to method reference
and vice-versa

14. Java 9 & newer
➡ Convert to Modular project
➡ Configure Module properties

15. Search

16. Search
➡ Find variables with read/write access
➡ Find methods with a specific return
type
➡ Filter results from the Search view

17. Debugging

18. Debugging
➡ Show return value from Step operation
➡ Trace point action
➡ Trigger point
➡ Run to line
➡ Debug Shell
➡ Launch Group

19. Spies

20. Plug-in Spy
Alt + Shift + F1
Plug-in Menu Spy
Alt + Shift + F2
Layout Spy
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F9

21. How to find all the
eclipse shortcuts?

22. Show Active Keybindings
Ctrl + Shift + L

23. Where to find the
tips & tricks?

24. Help > Tips and Tricks

25. Thank You!

26. Questions?