Comments on: eclipse juno (4.2) review

By: T.Doom

T.Doom — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:57:21 +0000

Eclipse has become horribly buggy over the years. What used to work correctly now doesn’t:

– Scrollbar does not hide when not needed (187029)
– Names of hidden tabs are not bolded (385987)
– Annoying close dialog for *every* unsaved tab (396318)
– Hidden tabs list is displayed off-screen (396310)

Not really sure how these bugs get past any type of decent testing, and since these are bugs found on existing features the people managing Eclipse should place more emphasis on fixing these than churning out new builds that will also inherit these bugs. Makes me wonder the integrity of Eclipse Foundation and how they prioritize tasks.

By: Deepa

Deepa — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:22:52 +0000

I installed Eclipse juno and used the tomcat sysdeo plugin tomcatPluginV33. I am able to see the icon and start tomcat.

By: Jean-Philippe Torunski

Jean-Philippe Torunski — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:44:43 +0000

I installed Eclipse Juno and put the sysdeo plugin into the plugins directory. At first it didn’t work because I had re-installed tomcat in a different directory and the plugin was looking for the Tomcat jars in my old directory.

I went to the Tomcat settings and updated the tomcat classpath to point to the new directory and it worked.

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:05:29 +0000

Back to Java 6. Not being able to run our Ant task is pretty fatal in Java 7.
[junitreport] : Error! The first argument to the non-static Java function ‘replace’ is not a valid object reference.
[junitreport] : Error! Cannot convert data-type ‘void’ to ‘reference’.
[junitreport] : Fatal Error! Could not compile stylesheet

Reference suggesting rolling back to Java 6:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10607151/error-the-first-argument-to-the-non-static-java-function-replace-is-not-a-val

By: Antony Jackson

Antony Jackson — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:53:12 +0000

By the way – the latest version of the Sysdeo plugin works fine with Eclipse Juno.

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:15 +0000

Just uninstalled Groovy because conflicted with Python. Easy uninstall. (eclipse > about eclipse > installation details > uninstall.) will try to reinstall if I use groovy again in near future.

By: Val

Val — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:08:42 +0000

Jeanne – I noticed (and was annoyed) by “bright windowing” (also on a Mac). I toned it down using Preferences > General > Appearance (chose classic)

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:36:51 +0000

In reply to Nitin Dahyabhai.

Turning on attribute line splitting actually makes it worse. But you raise a good point. I haven’t explored the settings in a long time because the behavior has been “not what I expect” for a few releases now. I just removed *all* the entries from web > html files > editor – inline elements. And now it formats as I’d expect. A bit more verbose in that now more things get their own line. But no obscure breaks where the tag is on one line and the first attribute is on another. (I think it was because inline tags were breaking around whitespace.)

Thanks!

By: Nitin Dahyabhai

Nitin Dahyabhai — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:51:47 +0000

Have you taken a thorough look at the HTML formatting preferences (the attribute line splitting is configurable), and opened feature requests for what you find lacking in Juno?

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:06:40 +0000

In reply to David O’Meara.

@Dave
File > Import
Expand Install > Choose “From existing installation” (*or type installation” in the filter)
Next
Point to Indigo install
Finish