Category Archives: Eclipse

Cross platform development with the Eclipse CDT

Posted on July 24, 2007 by andy dingfelder

So, you want to create an application that can un under both Linux and Windows? This is my experiment trying to do just that… Lets see if the Eclipse CDT is robust to do cross platform development! Step 1: Install … Continue reading →

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Installing eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo

Posted on July 14, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Today was the day to get eclipse going on Gentoo. I downloaded the latest version (3.3) and dropped it into /opt/eclipse. I fired it up and got: # ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for eclipse on Gentoo

Posted on July 12, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4. Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ the first thing … Continue reading →

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Eclipse mylyn mantis integration

Posted on June 10, 2007 by andy dingfelder

I set up mantis connect today on our server… it was very easy: just drop the “mc” directory from the archive (and it’s subdirectory) to the Mantis root directory. do not use the distribution from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisconnect as it does not … Continue reading →

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first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

Posted on May 29, 2007 by andy dingfelder

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. … Continue reading →

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abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

Posted on May 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

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 … Continue reading →

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what is going on here

Posted on May 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

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 … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 4)

Posted on April 12, 2007 by andy dingfelder

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 … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 3)

Posted on March 20, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Moving along, I decided to try the ProjectAssist install on a different machine, which we will be using for a development server, instead of doing it on my standalone XP workstation. Maybe the installer will work better on this environment. … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 2)

Posted on March 16, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Having determined the cause of the maven issues, I moved on and cleaned up my system and restarted the install. I then got perl errors, which the log listed as: (13:22:49:671) Installing C:borlandprojectassistPerlsitelibNetLDAPExtensionWhoAmI.pm (13:22:49:671) Perl install: processing INSTALL component AppConfig… … Continue reading →

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