it's unbelivable the amount of comment spam that this site gets

99.4 % of the comments are spam. Thank god that Akismet takes care of it

March 7, 2009

Eclipse Compare. Ignoring java formatting changes not only whitespace.

I met some difficulties dealing with the default eclipse java compare. I got involved on a project where everybody likes to commit code to CVS formatted their way, so comparing between CVS revisions is almost impossible. So I decided to start investigating about Eclipse plugin development to make a Java Compare Viewer that not only ignores whitespace but also all java formatting changes. The result is the following *Before *ignore java formatting plugin: ...

August 18, 2007