mercurial and mercurialEclipse plugin in ubuntu

Install the latest version of mercurial

• $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases
• $ sudo apt-get update
• $ sudo apt-get install mercurial
• check version of mercurial: $ hg --version

Mercurial eclipse plugin

• Help/Eclipse marketplace
• Find: Mercurial
• Install MercurialEclipse (requires at least mercurial 2.0)

Resources

http://askubuntu.com/questions/62612/is-it-possible-to-install-mercurial-1-9-on-9-10/62618#62618

org.eclipse.core.runtime.AssertionFailedException in Eclipse RCP

If you are working on development (or bug fixing) of a eclipse-plugin application and you get this error:

org.eclipse.core.runtime.AssertionFailedException: assertion failed:

or any eclipse specific error, in order to find out the real exception thrown by your code proceed in this way:

1. Right click on the error message;
   
2. Open log
   

Thanks to Roman ;)

Eclipse Trick to open Type View

If you use eclipse you can use [CTRL] + [SHIFT] +[T] to open the 'open type view' mask. This allow you to search a java class using auto-complete functionality. Try to do it. Thanks to Mike.