I’ve been looking for this for a while: how to add Apache’s build tool Ant to Eclipse when it is not available to add as a view.

When you download and run the standard PDT for example, it is not available.

The answer seems to be: install the Eclipse Java Development Tools.

This may not be the ideal way but if you want to do this through the “Install New Software…” menu, it seems to be the only one.

Just select “Work with: Galileo” (or whatever your Eclipse version is) expand “Programming Languages” and select “Eclipse Java Development”.

After the installation completes you can add Ant as a view.

Another project: last week I finalized a Google Maps integration with an overview of my client’s members and the status of their membership.

VSK (or the Vlaamse Scholieren Koepel) manage their member schools through a web interface and because they had addresses of each school, it was a logical step to show them on a Google Maps overview:

While the result will definitely come in handy for them, implementation is not spectacularly difficult. The fact that the hosting was fixed on PHP 4.x caused a bit more “fun” though!

This can save some time searching: to center a map on a set of markers (like with the county selection above) your must first center it on a set of fixed coordinates.