I just started using eclipse for some personal projects, and I find the transition from IntelliJ (which I use at work) annoying. I hope he asks a few questions on the same topic. Here:
1) How do I get “views” (I'm not sure what the term is. I mean windows like Project Explorer, Servers, Console, etc.) to stay extended and on top even after I clicked back in an editor or other presentation. I am pretty sure that now all these tabs are “quick views” that I collapsed and then docked, so I might not be doing this from the start. In IntelliJ, I just simply set the tab.
2) How to open a file (e.g. ant build.xml) without making it part of the eclipse project? I want the syntax highlighting and the Ctrl-click ability that the IDE will provide me (not to mention the possibility of using the built-in eclipse ant), but I do not need to link the file to others, t see that I need to make it part of the project.
3) It's just me (I won’t be surprised) or eclipse has an error with parsing empty html tags inside the body of html tags of the same type. I tested this only in JSP and this does not happen with JSF tags. For example: <div id="foo"><div id="bar"/></div>. Eclipse will give a warning that the first div tag does not have an end tag. This is with the latest version of eclipse for Java EE, no plugins installed.
4) Finally, a general question: any best practices or resources for finding the eclipse interface and perspectives / views? What about workspaces / projects? Is there any textbook that will be really informative that I could read in less than an hour?
I appreciate any answers and tips / tricks.
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