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Use Eclipse Short Cuts: http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.html
Most important shortcuts
- CTRL SHIFT R for finding ressourcesresources!
- CTRL H for finding text in files
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- Click the "+" next to the new repository, then Right-Click on trunk and select "Checkout...". Select "Check out as project in the workspace" and click on "Finish".This will create a new project called "ofbiz" and download the OFBiz files directly from SVN. To sync your project with SVN in the future, right-click on the project and click Teams/Syncronize Synchronize with Repository.
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Additional Eclipse and OFBiz resources
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You can set up your Eclipse so that identations indentations are done in tabs rather than spaces. See convert spaces to tabs. In older versions of Eclipse, the button is "Show" rather than "Edit". Here is a sample screenshot 
If you want some scripts to help you check and clean up tabs in your files, go to http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/downloads.php. I'm told by the real Unix gurus that "this takes one line in sed." Yeah, I've heard that one before...
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Using local XSD's when no internet
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connection is available
Eclipse uses XSD files to check XML files for correctness and also when using autocompletion. Normally, eclipse uses the XSD location specified at the top of the XML file which is usually a remote address. If you do not have an internet connection, the XSD will not be found and these features will not be available (unless they have been previously cached by eclipse).
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