first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

After my first full week of using Eclipse (having moved away from JBuilder) I thought I would list some of my thoughts:

• The visual editor sucks.  Jbuilder 2005/6 and Netbeans have eclipse beat here.  I hope this area improves soon.
• The spell checker finds spelling mistakes, but right clicking the error does not give an “add to dictionary” option.
• Eclipse feels much faster than Jbuilder 2005, and eclipse 3.2.
• It is great to be able to do C++ (CDT) and java in the same IDE.
• Mylyn (formerly Mylar) rocks.  I am able to interact with tasks while developing, a big time saver.  For example, if there is an error in the ide log, you can right click it and add n eclipse bugzilla defect on the fly.

I still need to get Mantis defect tracking set up with Mylyn.

abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

With a heavy heart, I am now offficially abandoning JBuilder, and moving to Eclipse.

I will spend the next month playing with Eclipse 3.3 while it is in the final stages prior to release.  I am currently using 3.3m3

The basic problem I had is that the base functionality I need did not work out of the box, and Borland support was not able to help me.  I’m sure that if I paid for a support contract they could have spend the time resolving my issues, but I am not willing to take the gamble and pony up > 1000$ for a product when I am not sure it will meet my needs.

If and when JBuilder quality improves again, I may give it a try again but for the moment, I am sticking with Eclipse.

what is going on here

after reporting my issues connecting to xplanner from jbuilder (adding a task repository) I got an email from codegear support.

The support tech (Chee Wee Chua) told me:

From the main menu, access Window, Preferences, Team, CVS, Proxy Settings.
Set the proxy connection, username and passsword there.

Let me know if this resolves the issue.

Thank you.

hmmm… interesting.
why is Jbuilder using the proxy info from CVS when Eclipse has the proxy configuration in a different area itself?

I sent him back a note:

I do not have CVS enabled, as we use SVN here instead.

Is the mylar code really using this proxy setting instead of the normal proxy settings?:

for normal eclipse it is set under:
window/preferences/internet/proxy settings

Thoughts?

I suspect he does not know what CVS or SVN is 🙂

He responded back with:

Hi Andy,

Normal Eclipse proxy settings doesn’t allow you to enter proxy user and authentication password.
Please let me know if the following resolves your issue.

Thanks.

so I responded:

The normal eclipse proxy screen has the following info:

proxy host
proxy port
non-proxy-hostnames
use socks y/n
enable proxy authentication y/n
proxy username
proxy password

See the attached screenshot for reference

Also, note that our proxy here does not use a username or password.

His response the next day was:

Hi Andy,

I have asked R&D for guidance.

In the meantime, it looks to me like your issue goes beyond simple installation and registration support.
I realize you’re currently using JBuilder 2007 Ent Trial and I would like to note that your issue is not covered under installation and registration support.

Best Regards,

Chua, Chee Wee

I never heard back from him.

so, I gave up on XPlanner.

xplanner issues connecting

When I try and create a task repository using xplanner from the IDE, and enter what I think is a valid url, name and pwd, I get the followin g error msg:

The supplied credentials are invalid

nested exception is:
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

The only field I do not know what to enter is: “Label:”

The error occurrs whether I have a label or not though, so I don’t think that is it.

Where can I get a better error message to debug what is going on?

project assist stacks

Because of install issues with projectAssist (it would not successfully install bugzilla or xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including:

• Tomcat 5.5.23
• Apache 2.2.4
• Mysql 5.0.37
• Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState)
• Liferay 4.2.1
• Continuum 1.0.3
• Xplanner 0.7b
• Bugzilla 3.0
• Subversion 1.4.3

All of the separate components are working beautifully under Windows 2000.

When I try and run the projectAssist wizard, it detects bugzilla, continuum & xplanner, but does not detect liferay or subversion

It then complains that does not like the fact that I have already installed apache.

Why does it need it’s own apache? I assume it is because it did not find liferay and/or subversion?

I have installed all the stack components, so it should not have any installing to do, just connect to the pre-existing components and configure users and projects etc.

Thoughts?