From the menu select Window / Preferences.  Look under Spring / Dashboard.  Uncheck &#39;Show Dashboard on Startup&#39;

(On newer versions of the spring plugin, it is under SpringSource / Dashboard)

go to Windows----&gt;Preference----&gt;SpringSource----&gt;DashBoard
uncheck [] Show Dashboard on Startup
click on OK button.                                               

STS 3.7.1 (Eclipse Mars) has no options to disable dashboard on startup.

However, if you go to Windows-&gt;Preferences-&gt;Spring-&gt;Dashboard and then check box &quot;Use Old Dashboard&quot;, next time you start STS, dashboard page will not open. Go figure.


I have a MAC, using spring tool suit latest version 3.4.0.RELEASE. By clicking the menu Spring Tool Suite / Preferences, then SpringSource / Dashboard, uncheck Show Dashboard On Startup  works for me. 

Is there an easy way to create expandable/collapsible blocks like seen in official market app?

Screenshot of Market app, when you click on &quot;More&quot; button, the description section expands with animation:

![enter image description here][1]

I know of [SlidingDrawer][2] but it doesn&#39;t seem to be suited for stuff like this--it&#39;s supposed to be put in overlay, and doesn&#39;t support half-open states.

**Update:**

Here&#39;s my half-working solution. It&#39;s a custom widget that extends `LinearLayout`. It kind-of works, but doesn&#39;t handle edge cases well, like content height smaller than `collapsedHeight` parameter. I&#39;m sure with enough staring, digging in code and experimenting the quirks could be fixed. Was hoping to avoid doing that, and save some time by using a ready-made official or 3rd party solution. Anyway, here it is, code:

    package com.example.androidapp.widgets;
    
    import android.content.Context;
    import android.content.res.TypedArray;
    import android.util.AttributeSet;
    import android.view.View;
    import android.view.animation.Animation;
    import android.view.animation.Transformation;
    import android.widget.LinearLayout;
    
    import com.example.androidapp.R;
    
    public class ExpandablePanel extends LinearLayout {
    
        private final int mHandleId;
        private final int mContentId;
    
        private View mHandle;
        private View mContent;
    
        private boolean mExpanded = true;
        private int mCollapsedHeight = 0;
        private int mContentHeight = 0;
    
        public ExpandablePanel(Context context) {
        	this(context, null);
        }
    
        public ExpandablePanel(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    	    super(context, attrs);
    
    	    TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,
    		    R.styleable.ExpandablePanel, 0, 0);
    
    	    // How high the content should be in &quot;collapsed&quot; state
    	    mCollapsedHeight = (int) a.getDimension(
    		    R.styleable.ExpandablePanel_collapsedHeight, 0.0f);
    
    	    int handleId = a.getResourceId(R.styleable.ExpandablePanel_handle, 0);
    	    if (handleId == 0) {
    	        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
    		        &quot;The handle attribute is required and must refer &quot;
    			        + &quot;to a valid child.&quot;);
    	    }
    
    	    int contentId = a.getResourceId(R.styleable.ExpandablePanel_content, 0);
    	    if (contentId == 0) {
    	        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
    		        &quot;The content attribute is required and must refer &quot;
    			        + &quot;to a valid child.&quot;);
    	    }
    
    	    mHandleId = handleId;
    	    mContentId = contentId;
    
    	    a.recycle();
        }
    
        @Override
        protected void onFinishInflate() {
    	    super.onFinishInflate();
    
    	    mHandle = findViewById(mHandleId);
    	    if (mHandle == null) {
    	        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
    		        &quot;The handle attribute is must refer to an&quot;
    			        + &quot; existing child.&quot;);
    	    }
    
    	    mContent = findViewById(mContentId);
    	    if (mContent == null) {
    	        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
    		        &quot;The content attribute is must refer to an&quot;
    			        + &quot; existing child.&quot;);
    	    }
    
    	    mHandle.setOnClickListener(new PanelToggler());
        }
    
        @Override
        protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    	    if (mContentHeight == 0) {
    	        // First, measure how high content wants to be
    	        mContent.measure(widthMeasureSpec, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
    	        mContentHeight = mContent.getMeasuredHeight();
    	    }
    
    	    // Then let the usual thing happen
    	    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        }
    
        private class PanelToggler implements OnClickListener {
    	    public void onClick(View v) {
    	        Animation a;
    	        if (mExpanded) {
        		    a = new ExpandAnimation(mContentHeight, mCollapsedHeight);
    	        } else {
    	    	    a = new ExpandAnimation(mCollapsedHeight, mContentHeight);
    	        }
    	        a.setDuration(500);
    	        mContent.startAnimation(a);
    	        mExpanded = !mExpanded;
    	    }
        }
    
        private class ExpandAnimation extends Animation {
    	    private final int mStartHeight;
    	    private final int mDeltaHeight;
    
    	    public ExpandAnimation(int startHeight, int endHeight) {
    	        mStartHeight = startHeight;
    	        mDeltaHeight = endHeight - startHeight;
    	    }
    
    	    @Override
    	    protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime,
    		    Transformation t) {
    	        android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp = mContent.getLayoutParams();
    	        lp.height = (int) (mStartHeight + mDeltaHeight * interpolatedTime);
    	        mContent.setLayoutParams(lp);
    	    }
    
    	    @Override
    	    public boolean willChangeBounds() {
    	        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    	        return true;
    	    }
        }
    }

Here&#39;s `res/values/attrs.xml`:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;resources&gt;
      &lt;declare-styleable name=&quot;ExpandablePanel&quot;&gt;
        &lt;attr name=&quot;handle&quot; format=&quot;reference&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;attr name=&quot;content&quot; format=&quot;reference&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;attr name=&quot;collapsedHeight&quot; format=&quot;dimension&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/declare-styleable&gt;
    &lt;/resources&gt;

And here&#39;s how I use it in layout:

    &lt;com.example.androidapp.widgets.ExpandablePanel
    	android:orientation=&quot;vertical&quot;
    	android:layout_height=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
    	android:layout_width=&quot;fill_parent&quot;
        example:handle=&quot;@+id/expand&quot;
        example:content=&quot;@+id/value&quot;
        example:collapsedHeight=&quot;50dip&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;TextView
    		android:id=&quot;@id/value&quot;
    		android:layout_width=&quot;fill_parent&quot;
    		android:layout_height=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
    		android:maxHeight=&quot;50dip&quot;
    		/&gt;
    	&lt;Button
    		android:id=&quot;@id/expand&quot;
    		android:layout_width=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
    		android:layout_height=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
    		android:text=&quot;More&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/com.example.androidapp.widgets.ExpandablePanel&gt;




  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/0hqno.jpg
  [2]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SlidingDrawer.html


How to implement expandable panels in Android?

I&#39;m completely new to GIT, so excuse the naivety. If I&#39;m working on a project offline, and I do multiple commits then push the changes once I&#39;m back online, will all the commits show up in my repository, or just the last one I did before going back online?

Multiple commits before pushing

There apparently used to be a toggle switch on the Dashboard itself, but that&#39;s gone, and I can&#39;t find anything in the Preferences.  I&#39;m using version 2.5.2.

I know it&#39;s really not a big deal, but closing that window over and over is starting to make Jack a dull boy, if you catch my drift.

Can I disable the Dashboard window when SpringSource Tool Suite starts up?

<p>There apparently used to be a toggle switch on the Dashboard itself, but that's gone, and I can't find anything in the Preferences.  I'm using version 2.5.2.</p>
<p>I know it's really not a big deal, but closing that window over and over is starting to make Jack a dull boy, if you catch my drift.</p>


Our company is using eclipse since several years now (we are using WTP since release 0.7)

I am currently evaluating **eclipse 3.6.2 with WTP 3.2.3** which should replace eclipse 3.4.2 with WTP 3.0.4 as being our main IDE.

And I have to say that once again I am quite disappointed in concerns of performance:&lt;br&gt;
***WTP 3.2.3 seems to be much slower than 3.0.4.***&lt;br&gt;
In fact I am really wondering why WTP gets slower with each release.

One of our applications (dynamic web project) contain about **4000 java classes and 700 jsps/jsp fragments**. We only need basic WTP functionality for developing jsps, xmls and xsd. We don&#39;t need high sophistic features like [Dali][1] (should JPA tools really covered by a *webtools project*?), [Libra][2] or a [visual xml editor][3] in the first place.&lt;br&gt;

Another interesting point is that WTP seems to **slow down the whole IDE**.
SWT is non-reponsive for some fraction of seconds, cpu usage is very high (especially after a built took place - if you look at the system jobs, several jsp/javascript indexers are doing work for some minutes, even if all WTP build validators have been disabled), opening new files are slower, navigating through the project etc.

This can be especially seen on older machines which do contains only a single core cpu.

**The worst thing is that I&#39;ve got the feeling that the WTP dev team does not care much about performance**
(e.g. have a look at the http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Performance_Tests page - last update took place in 2008).

Bug reports and Newsgroup posts regarding to performance of basic features (e.g. jsp editing/validating) are often ignored or closed after some time, some examples: [here][4], [here][5], [and here][6].


[Quo vadis, WTP?][7]


----------


**Please don&#39;t get me wrong:**

I don&#39;t want to blame WTP.&lt;br&gt;
In fact I believe that WTP is a good open-source project developed by a talented team.&lt;br&gt;
But obviously the **project has a problem with its quality assurance**, especially in terms of performance which affects usability and user acceptance.

I just want to point out that the team should focus on the things which are **essential to most of the users** in the first place and afterwards work on implementing super-duper-features.

**My Questions**

- What are your experiences with WTP, especially the most recent releases?
- Can you confirm or disprove my observations?
- Are there better alternatives?
- Did you switch from or to WTP and why?
- Do you have some best practices to speed it up, especially for upper-mid-sized like ours?


----------


**UPDATE**

I&#39;d like to make an update on this question to reflect the current answers and 
to sum up the current results:

- Many users complain about more or less on the same issues so I see those issues as confirmed.&lt;br&gt;
BTW, this question is also mentioned on **a news post on [theserverside.com][8]** with additional comments.

- The responsible WTP project lead, nitind, made a notable post on the current situation of WTP, which I like to cite:&lt;br&gt;
***&quot;The simple fact is that we don&#39;t spend much time on performance tests because we lack resources for doing that.&quot;***&lt;br&gt;
***&quot;Of course we&#39;d like to be proactive about it rather than reactive, but we tend to allocate our time to functional problems first.&quot;***&lt;br&gt;

So this question turns a little bit into some kind of an open letter from the community to the WTP team:

    Dear WTP team,
    
    it&#39;s obvious that WTP is suffering from major quality/performance issues 
    which you try to play down or to ignore.
    Please invest some time to improve the current situation 
    at the cost of new features and do everything what&#39;s required 
    to solve the current problems.
    E.g. revive the performance team, do some regression tests between 
    previous releases or ask the community for (precise defined) help.
    
    I am sure that they are enough people willing and able to help here.
    
    If you like, do some kind of poll to get a feeling what should be 
    the most important scopes of future&#39;s WTP releases.
    
    Please, please, listen to your community.


  [1]: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/dali/
  [2]: http://www.eclipse.org/libra/
  [3]: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/incubator/
  [4]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170640
  [5]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170646
  [6]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=136935
  [7]: http://www.google.de/trends?q=eclipse%20WTP&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=1
  [8]: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=62120

Eclipse webtools project (WTP) and its performance / quality

I&#39;m using IntelliJ IDEA, but I think this applies to any IDE.

In IDEA, some [very useful keyboard shortcuts][1] conflict with Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts. Some examples:

 - **&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt;** : formats the source code (mapped to &quot;Lock Screen&quot; in Ubuntu)
 - **&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Left&lt;/kbd&gt;** : navigates backward (mapped to &quot;switch to workspace on the left of the current workspace&quot; in Ubuntu)
 - ...

I&#39;ve been using Ubuntu for a long time, and I&#39;m used to these shortcuts. I use them all the time to switch between workspaces, lock my session... At the same time, I know how useful the IntelliJ shortcuts can be, and I want to avoid using the mouse as much as possible.

Currently, my workaround for &quot;format source code&quot; is &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; (opens the &quot;Code&quot; menu), followed by &quot;R&quot; (&quot;Reformat Code&quot;). It works okay, since I don&#39;t format code that often, but it could be better. There is no real alternative for **&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Left&lt;/kbd&gt;**, though.

How do you manage these conflicts in your IDE?

Do you simply remap all the conflicting IDE keyboard shortcuts to something else (and then get lost when you are pair programming with a colleague with different shortcuts...)?

Do you remap the Linux keyboard shortcuts (even though you are &quot;used&quot; to them)?

Is there a way to make keyboard shortcuts &quot;contextual&quot;? By this, I mean: hit a key to go into &quot;IDEA mode&quot; when coding (all conflicting Ubuntu shortcuts are temporarily deactivated), hit the key again to go back to &quot;Standard mode&quot; (Ubuntu shortcuts are reactived).

Do you have any other ideas / tips on how to manage this problem?

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/294167/what-are-the-most-useful-intellij-idea-keyboard-shortcuts

Managing keyboard shortcut conflicts between IDE and OS (Ubuntu)

I am going to start building project in node.js (was working in PHP before), What is the IDE, Debugger and Helping Tools for node.js, to help improvement while coding ?

IDE and Debugger for node.js

I couldn&#39;t find the goto line command in Xcode4. Where is it...?

Where is the *goto line* command in Xcode4?

Current situation: I have dependencies in my project that I solve by using dependency injection. I want to take the next logic step by using a dependency injection container (DIC) to ease the management of my dependencies and to lazy-load classes.

I looked at [Bucket](https://github.com/troelskn/bucket), [Pimple](http://pimple.sensiolabs.org/), and [sfServiceContainer](http://components.symfony-project.org/dependency-injection/), ran some test and really appreciate how DIC’s work. I’d probably go for Pimple because of its simplicity and raw power. If I didn’t have this problem:

Due to the abstraction that DIC’s offer, the IDE I’m using (PHPStorm) no longer understands what’s going on in my code. It doesn’t understand that $container[&#39;mailer&#39;] or $sc-&gt;mailer is holding a class object. I also tried Netbeans IDE: same problem.

This is really a problem for me because my IDE becomes useless. I don’t want to program without code hints, autocompletion and refactoring tools when dealing with classes. And I don’t want my IDE to find all kinds of false positives when validating code.

So my question is: Has anyone dealt with this problem and found a solution?

How do I make my PHP IDE understand Dependency Injection Containers?

Maven2: Missing artifact but jars are in place

i got a tricky one:

![look At Breakpoints, they are crossed out!][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BxPke.jpg


I can&#39;t set valid breakpoints. Not in Tests, neither in my Java Classes. I searched Stackoverflow and google, but I couldn&#39;t find anybody with the same problem.

I&#39;m using STS(x86) and Maven.

**Edit:** It may seem confusing but I solved it by myself.
I have to go Run-&gt; Skip all Breakpoints (it was set, and I wonder how it was set, because I didn&#39;t do it)

Breakpoints are crossed out, how can I make them valid?

I am starting to configure my development environment and I am using Spring Tool Suite 2.8.1 along with m2E 1.01.

As far as I can tell, since this is a Maven Project (my first), my Maven POM is dictating (along with m2E smarts) my project build configuration and dependencies.

What I would like to know is why my IDE is displaying Java Build Problems that read &quot;Archive required for library *library/path/somejar.jar* cannot be read or is not a valid zip file&quot; when I can see the jars in my .m2 repository?

All the errors pertained to commons-logging:1.1.1 which I excluded in my parent-pom. This was a transistive dependancy via spring-context-support:3.0.5. I excluded that library from my build and now the errors pertain to the spring-context-support library.

I have attached a screenshot to illustrate.

![Markers][1]

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/0QfjQ.png



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Can I disable the Dashboard window when SpringSource Tool Suite starts up?

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How to implement expandable panels in Android?

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