[Peter Darton]

In reverse order…

this seems to be a JDK-level issue

Oh <expletive deleted>. That really isn’t what I wanted to hear. Seems that someone, somewhere, has made a pretty fundamental error if you can’t use web-services from a web applet!
However, I do thank you for that link – that has given me some hope: “BTW, signed applet does solve the issue…”. Now all I need to do is to work out how to automate signing of my applet (which consists of many JAR files, as I’m sure you can guess) from a makefile.

First, awesome stack trace…

Glad you liked it 😀 I find that (a lack of) communications are the reason behind most software bugs, hence I tried to make things as clear as possible. Of course, 10 years ago I’d have been flamed for wasting bandwidth…

Size. … count how many megs of MyEclipse are actually libraries

Personally, I feel that a significant proportion of MyEclipse’s value is purely that it collects together sensible sets of libraries and makes them easily usable.
Could I ask that you add something to the Wish-list: Provide the source to the libraries you package up as an optional download?
At the very least, providing a URL pointing to online Javadocs would be a minimum – at present, the most difficult libraries to use in the IDE, ones that have no documentation, are the MyEclipse ones. As we’ve seen, a lack of source makes debugging more difficult than it needs to be.
Also, at present, if one uses the MyEclipse libraries and hits ctrl-space etc to get context sensitive help/code completion, one is told the method takes “arg0, arg1, arg2” with no hint of what they’re used for (not very helpful) whereas having either the Javadocs or the source makes it vastly more user-friendly.

Thank you (both) for your assistance and perseverence. Hopefully the next problem I hit will be somewhat more easily solvable…

[Riyad Kalla]

Oh <expletive deleted>. That really isn’t what I wanted to hear. Seems that someone, somewhere, has made a pretty fundamental error if you can’t use web-services from a web applet!

I really do feel your pain here. I’ve only hit 2 platform bugs that were show stoppers for me in the last 8 years of Java and both times they were major issues (like I said one required us to completely rewrite our persistence stack at the last minute… grrrr!)

Could I ask that you add something to the Wish-list: Provide the source to the libraries you package up as an optional download?

This is actually strangely timely… we are rolling out our partner network/discovery site enhancements soon and throwing up source for all our libraries as part of that rpeository, for folks that didn’t mind download it, definately falls under the category of “dooable”… and I agree, ultimately the end user experience is what matters.

Also, at present, if one uses the MyEclipse libraries and hits ctrl-space etc to get context sensitive help/code completion, one is told the method takes “arg0, arg1, arg2” with no hint of what they’re used for (not very helpful) whereas having either the Javadocs or the source makes it vastly more user-friendly.

Just had this conversation this morning, again weird timing. I’ll add your comments to the issue we are trackig this under and see if we can get this in sooner than later.

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