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MyEclipse: 6.5 M1

JMPARG - May 18, 2008 - 04:26 PM
Post subject: 6.5 M1

I have been trying 6.5M1 and really appreciate the new features (JAX-WS support in particular). However, this new release introduces some big problems with my current setup (ME + some JBoss tooling).

- The WST and JST umbrella features are not there any more, which forces me to install ME on top of a JEE europa distribution.
- The new version of the JSF Visual Editor shows great promise, but now conficts with the JBoss JSP and HTML editors (it was NOT the case in 6.0.1). So I now have to use the JBoss Editors as default when doing Seam work (a TERRIBLE regression).
- JSF validation still 1.0 (or 1.1) ? (onclick attribute in h:commandLink, namespace declarations in ui:composition etc. still flagged as errors).
- XHTML VE visuals on Ubuntu: -DLinux.expermmental=true does nothing for me. Am I missing something ?

I can live with 1, 3 and 4. But 2 is really frustrating. Maybe this will get fixed before the final release ? I would hate to have to go back to Ant builds for Seam projects work.

Regards,

Jean-Michel

support-greg - May 19, 2008 - 06:49 PM
Post subject: RE: 6.5 M1

Hello Jean-Michel,

Thank you for reporting your issues. I'll try to address the ones as I can for now.

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- The WST and JST umbrella features are not there any more, which forces me to install ME on top of a JEE europa distribution.

All of the WST/JST plugins are available its just their umbrella features that are gone. You should not have to install them from a JEE distribution. How is the missing features causing you a problem? Maybe we can help you with a workaround if a problem exists.

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- The new version of the JSF Visual Editor shows great promise, but now conficts with the JBoss JSP and HTML editors (it was NOT the case in 6.0.1). So I now have to use the JBoss Editors as default when doing Seam work (a TERRIBLE regression).

We have not known of this issue, but we honestly had not tested that combination. This is exactly the type of issues we hope to flush out in a Milestone 1 release. So we should have time to address for the next release.

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- JSF validation still 1.0 (or 1.1) ? (onclick attribute in h:commandLink, namespace declarations in ui:composition etc. still flagged as errors).

I will send this note to the dev team to make sure they are aware of this and see what may be going on.

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- XHTML VE visuals on Ubuntu: -DLinux.expermmental=true does nothing for me. Am I missing something ?

The flag should use a lower-case 'l' instead of uppercase 'L', so it should be

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eclipse -vmargs -Dlinux.experimental=true

Let us know if this doesn't work for you.

support-eugene - May 19, 2008 - 08:00 PM
Post subject: Re: 6.5 M1

JMPARG wrote:

Can you explain exact problems you've experienced?

JMPARG - May 19, 2008 - 09:05 PM
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Thank you both for your prompt answers.

- Unbrella jst/wst first: the org.jbosside.eclipse.feature delacres a dependency on plain org.eclipse.jst and org.eclipse.wst, not individual features (terrible, but I suspect quite a few other plugins take this lazy approach)
- When trying to open an xhtml file with the ME Visual JSF designer on a ME 6.5M1 + Seam (JBoss Tools) setup you now get a:

Code:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/tools/vpe/editor/IVEditor
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) etc, etc... error

- The reverse is NOT true: you can still open it with the JBoss Visual HTML editor (Jboss Tools IVEditor)
- On ME 6.0.1 you could use any editor (ME or JBoss)

Unfortunately, It does not seeem possible to break the chain of dependencies from Seam Tools 2.1.0 Beta1 to the JBoss Ide feature.

My setup on both Windows and Ubuntu linux was:
Eclipse JEE Europa fall (fall, not Winter for Seam2.1 Tools) + ME6.5M1 + Seam Tools 2.1.0 Beta1and dependencies from JBoss development update site.

I hope this is enough info: I am at your disposal if you want more detail.

Regards,

Jean-Michel

support-scott - Jun 21, 2008 - 12:37 AM
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Jean-Michel,

Just a note that for complex setups like you use (especially since you're on multiple machines) you might want to have a look at our Pulse provisioning service. It will make setting these up easy and quick. Please give it a try and let us know what you think on the Pulse forums.

MaxW - Oct 07, 2008 - 06:58 PM
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I have just installed ME 6.5.1 and added JBoss 2.1.2 on pure Windows Vista, and I also get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/tools/vpe/editor/IVEditor, so do you have answer to that problem.

support-eugene - Oct 07, 2008 - 07:11 PM
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MaxW wrote:

I have just installed ME 6.5.1 and added JBoss 2.1.2 on pure Windows Vista, and I also get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/tools/vpe/editor/IVEditor, so do you have answer to that problem.

You should not replace plugins that are bundled with MyEclipse with original ones. We had to do some changes to better integrate two products.

JMPARG - Oct 24, 2008 - 09:38 AM
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Scott, Eugene,

I followed you advice and used pulse for 7.0M2. As expected, installing Seam tools on top of 7.0M2 is not possible with pulse (sigh)

Eugene: we would not be tempted to replace the org.jbosstools.jsf / vpe plugins if the ME version could substitute for the original when adding Seam (a dummy IVEditor class calling/extending your own or some other glue code ?). The latest version of Seam tools looks very close to working with ME out of the box, which makes the current situation somewhat frustrating...
Any update on ME plans for Seam support ? What about Web-beans (alpha release of the RI should be coming pretty soon) ?

Regards,
Jean-Michel