How to open a file in external editor programmatically in eclipse plugin development?

I recently came to Java/Open source world from .NET world (12 years there). I know Visual Studio for a decade. Now, I've been using Eclipse IDE to program Java for seven weeks. I am just amazed how often it hangs, causing me to kill the app, and restart...

1. First create " Tools" top level menu. 2. Create "Command1", "Command2" under it. 3. In the handler for "Command1" show a "File Open" dialog box and open a text file and display it in the Editor

how to access the parent composite from any method other than createpartcontrol() method in Eclipse JAVA plugin project.

I want to use Lotus Expeditor Toolkit in Eclipse in order to dev a lotus notes 8.5 sidebar plugin.

I'd like to delete a file in the Media Library. It seems the wp delete attachment() function needs to be used for the task and it requires an attachment ID. When I only know the url of a file, is it possible to retrieve the attachment ID from  the url...

I'm checking how the HTTP API works and wondering how it manages browser cookies. As I view the code, I cannot either find the setcookie() function nor functions that deal with writing data to a file. So can I understand that the requesting client made...

Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency. Software being installed: Android Hierarchy Viewer 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534 (com.android.ide.eclipse.hierarchyviewer… 16.0.1.v201112150204-238534) Software currently installed...

I'm trying to achieve the same thing to the below script with Settings  API. It lets the user upload a file and if the form is sent, it just  displays the $_FILES array containing the information of the submitted  file. <?php if ( isset( $_POST[...

how do I tell a browser in osx which plugin should handle a certain file type? I installed the vlc plugin for osx to enable safari and firefox to handle vlc-streams. vlc also tries to handle mp3 files opened in either browser. I don't want it to do that...