Eclipse usage configuration and development

A list of useful Preferences and how to configure them

• Add a short cut key to remove trailing whitespace
• Set tabs length and use spaces instead of tab character
• Change the value eclipse uses for the @author tag
• Open Eclipse with a specific workspace

Interesting How To Instructions

• Automate Jaring of Java Projects with an ant builder

Novel Eclipse Bugs and gotchas

• */ string inside of // comments breaks javadocs
• backquotes ( ` ) in string literals will cause some tools to break when they try and parse the document tree