Adam Kruszewski :: WebLog();

Eclipse Webtools actual tomcat launcher have one drawback for me -- it deploys application to temporary directory and doesn't honour project set libraries.
While there exist possible solution in Eclipse bugzilla it wasn't quite working with WTP in Eclipse 3.3M4 installation, so while trying new Tapestry 5 features I installed Merve Tomcat Launcher which is almost identical to Jetty Launcher (JL doesn't work with my Eclipse 3.3M4 either). It seems this plugin is free of the mentioned drawbacks, so I encourage everyone fighting with WTP to try it for yourself.

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I have published new version of libCopy to my update site today.
It contains changes sent to me by Chris Lacy  (Thanks Chris!) and it should also behave more nicely in Microsoft Windows environment.
Additionally I put sources in subversion repository and created a simple web page for it at http://adam.kruszewski.name/projects/libcopy.
Now I'm going to dig into M2 internals...

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Grab them here:

• Eclipse 3.1M5 build page
• WebTools Platform build with web services tools

AFAIK some EMF editors crashed in relased eclipse 3.1M5. There is now update available: Eclipse 3.1M5a.

I have also tried new Web Services wizards in latest WTP I-builds but with no luck. WS generation ends with various errors but never completes (once I'v got ClassNotFoundException on my JavaBean which I wanted to wrap with WS; Other time it ends with NPE or IllegalArgumentException in Axis classes or with 'AdminServlet not started' message). Maybe that is because I was trying to use Tomcat 5.0 runtime (which is claimed to be supported)? And another spotted glitch -- WTP supports only Axis 1.1/Apache SOAP and in every auto-generated proxy it contains import of package named 'org.apache.whatever.enum' which renders it pretty unuseable from J2SE5.0 developement point of view. I guess I will wait for WTP M3 release which should have those things done, and in mean time I'll play with XFire a little.

In case you didn't noticed there is version 3.1M6 of Eclipse IDE to download. Now with a full J2SE5.0 compatible compiler and many other cool things tm).
Soon I'll post a small compatibility list for plugins I use but first those 88 megs must kill my 115Kbps internet connection.

Today I have found a little project (developed by one person) which adds nice support for JavaServer Faces / Struts developement within Eclipse IDE.
Here are links for individual plugins (you can see some screenshots there):

• FacesIDE
• StrutsIDE
• EclipseHTMLEditor ( required by all above plugins )

• 19-mar-2005 update: today new version of those plugins was released which adds J2SE 5.0 support and others nice features

If you are using Eclipse and Luntbuild just get luntbuild plugin for eclipse -- it rocks :-)

Today, newer version of Luntbuild plugin for Eclipse was released. If you don't already know, Luntbuild is a build automation and management tool, with very useful and complete web interface -- you'll see no xml files ever ;-> I can recommend it to everyone.

Sometime ago I have published small list of plugins that I was using with Eclipse 3.0 (entry got deleted along with my blosxom instance). Today I'm using Eclipse 3.1M4 which works stable but there is a lack of working plugins for it. Those critical for me are working and here is a short list:
(Update sites, if available, are listed along their corresponding entries)

Working:

• AJDT -- http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/31/dev/update
• PMD -- http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse
• Visual Editor -- http://update.eclipse.org/tools/ve/updates/1.0
• WebTools -- download page (it contains also a list of compatible GEF, EMF and JEM plugins)
• QuickImage -- http://psnet.nu/eclipse/updates
• AccessModifier -- http://accessmodifier.sourceforge.net/update/
• QuantumDB
• VersionTree
• djUnit
• VEX
• Jython -- http://home.tiscali.be/redrobin/jython/updates/
• Java2Html (only one minor quirk: Java2Html context menu entry is displayed twice in java editor)
• JDepend4Eclipse

Not-working:

• CAP -- it works for the first time, but then it doesn't update charts
• Should be more but I have lost text file with a list of them. :/

updates:

• 01-jan: Added VEX, Java2Html and Jython plugins.
• 04-jan: Added JDepend4Eclipse

M2Eclipse plugin is the second maven integration plugin for eclipse I tried and it seems it works quite well -- even maven console is working extremly well within eclipse. The only drawback I found this time is lack of working integration with latest (from callisto update site) webtools platform, but it is more a maven2 drawback than the plugin it self. As googling resulted only with some tips pointing to ".settings/.component" file which seems is no longer read by wtp (or it just didn't work for me) so I have hacked a little eclipse plugin to do the dirty work for me, and by "dirty work" I mean linking maven resolved dependencies directly into "src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib", which results in double classpath entries in project but at last WTP publish the application with all the libraries. Now I can use maven within Eclipse for every project type I could dream of
If you want to obtain the plugin just point the update manager to http://adam.kruszewski.name/eclipse/, it contributes a property page for every project so you can tune it for your needs (the sources are also available but they are not elegant nor pretty -- you ware warned!)

02-may-2006 - plugin update:

• Compiled with source level of 5.0 (sorry for the first version compiled with 6.0)
• Now you don't need to specify any local maven repository path; if you use E2eclipse plugin everything will be determined automagically