• Java:
  • https://adoptium.net/
  • https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/
  • https://jdk.java.net/
• Visual Studio Code:https://code.visualstudio.com/
  • Plugins
    • GitLens
    • Angular Language Service
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • ESLint
• Java Eclipse STS: https://spring.io/tools
  • PlantUML: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/plantuml-plugin
• Git: https://git-scm.com/

Tools

• Docker Desktop: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop
• Insomnia: https://insomnia.rest/

Tools for Linux / MAC

• Java SDK Management: https://sdkman.io/sdks
• Node version management: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

Tools for Windows

• Command Line: http://cmder.net/
• Text Editor: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Database Tools

• Graphical DB client for Eclipse https://dbeaver.io/
• Oracle Developer https://www.oracle.com/de/database/technologies/appdev/sqldeveloper-landing.html

Java Test Libs

• https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility

Visual Studio Code & Windows

Install PowerShell 7.x.x

Check the current version $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

This requires admin permissions on the windows system.

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget

Configure PowerShell 7 as CMD default

Open the windows shell, select in the menu the drop down and settings, select powershell and save.

Configure PowerShell 7 as VS Code default

There is also now a plugin available: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/powershell

Open the user Settings settings.json to add the new shell, you can see all Settings (read only) in the Default Settings (JSON).

• ctrl+p
• type Open Settings

Add the new install PowerShell 7 and set it as the new default.

"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
    "PowerShell_7": {
        "source": "PowerShell",
        "icon": "terminal-powershell",
        "path": "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe"
    },
},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "PowerShell_7",

Eclipse ini settings

Memory settings G1 or ZGC

Where the G1 is optimized for shorter GC pause, which maybe is good too (default with Java 17), adjust the Xmx as you see fit eclipse.ini:

-Xms512m
-Xmx2048m
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.cairoGraphics=false
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.useCairo=false

adjust the following settings based on your CPU count

-XX:ParallelGCThreads=6
-XX:ConcGCThreads=4

Increase icon size for large screens

-Dswt.autoScale=quarter

Eclipse autoscale comes with some examples. Basically quarter means leave it to the system to scale in 25% steps. Alternatively, use integers like 200 to scale to 200%.

-Dswt.autoScale=200

Miscellaneous

• Autogenerate Getter/Setter: https://projectlombok.org/
• Angular Browser Plugin: https://augury.rangle.io
• https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html

Nowadays we have a screen with a resolution of 2560×1440 or 3440×1440 4K. The problem with Eclipse is, that all the icons and buttons stay very tiny and are hard to interact with.

Solution

The easiest solution is to adjust the eclipse.ini or STS.ini with the following parameters at the end:

Fixed 200% scale

-Dswt.autoScale=200
-Dswt.autoScale.method=nearest

Autoscale based on screen resolution

-Dswt.autoScale=quarter
-Dswt.autoScale.method=nearest

Links

Eclipse documentation