QuatumDB is a SQL plug-in for Eclipse. It works for a lot of databases included MySQL, HSQLDB, IBM Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase...

The goal of this blog note is to discover how to install and use QuantumDB on a MySQL database.

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This note explains how to perform HTML unit tests within eclipse using HtmlUnit. HtmlUnit is a java unit testing framework for testing web based applications. It is a member of the JUnit family. This method work for any kind of web development project, not only Java ones but also PHP projects for example, as we are testing the HTML as it appears on the client side.

In this article we will also see how to integrate these tests with Ant.

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I want to move from CVS to Subversion. Both are version control systems, but Subversion is a better CVS as explained in this article. For us, the main reason to switch from CVS to Subversion is that files and directories can be renamed or moved and directories are versionned as files. So the first questions are: how to install Subversion on Windows? What about the Subversion integration with Eclipse. This blog note will try to answer these questions. In a next note, I will deal with CVS to Subversion repository conversion using cvs2svn tool.

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Until now, I was only a user of the Eclipse Platform. Today, I want to know how to create a new simple plug-in with Eclipse 3.1 using the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). The first goal is really simple: use the PDE to create a kind of Hello World plug-in. What a nice surprise when I have discovered that the Eclipse guys have the idea to create a wizard to do that! This wizard really simplify the creation of a Hello World Eclipse plug-in...

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