[ppine1]

Hi,
I have MyEclipse 3.8.4 and Eclipse 3.1. When I go to Window > Preferences > MyEclipse I don’t see any Database Explorer item. Likewise, there is no Database Perspetive either.

Do I need to do anything special to enable Database Explorer?

thanks,
Marina

[Riyad Kalla]

Marina,
What were the names of the files you used to a) install Eclipse and b) install MyEclipse?

[ppine1]

The names of the files were:
eclipse-SDK-3.1M4-win32.zip
EnterpriseWorkbenchInstaller_030804_3.1Beta.exe

Thanks!

[Riyad Kalla]

This is very odd, those versions should work with eachother.

When I go to Window > Preferences > MyEclipse I don’t see any Database Explorer item.

What *do* you see listed under the “MyEclipse” item?

Likewise, there is no Database Perspetive either.

Double check for me: Window > Open Perspective > Other… > MyEclipse Database Explorer

not there?

Double check your log file <workspace dir>\.metadata\.log for exceptions that could clue us into what is going on here.

[ppine1]

>>What *do* you see listed under the “MyEclipse” item?

I see pretty much everything else: Application Servers, bugzilla, Editors, Internet Tools, J2EE Tools, Project capabilities, Subscription, XDoclet.

>>Double check for me: Window > Open Perspective > Other… > MyEclipse Database Explorer
>>not there?

No, I don’t have this perspective.

I tried to look into the .log – but it is 400M and I pretty much hung my PC trying to open it 🙂

Should I try to re-install MyEclipse? Will I loose all my settings if I do?

thanks!

[Riyad Kalla]

I tried to look into the .log – but it is 400M and I pretty much hung my PC trying to open it 🙂

Hahah, you can shut down MyEclipse, erase this file then start it back up and check it. It is just recreated if one is missing.

Should I try to re-install MyEclipse? Will I loose all my settings if I do?

Let’s see if the log sheds any light, then I’ll have you try a new workspace (File > Switch Workspace > C:\tempworkspace) and see if that helps. If that doesn’t, then we are going to try and reinstall Eclipse and MyEclipse.

[ppine1]

The only error I see in the .log file is this:
!SESSION 2005-06-02 15:49:23.265 ———————————————–
eclipse.buildId=I20041216-2000
java.version=1.4.2_06
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ant.ui 4 120 2005-06-02 15:49:23.265
!MESSAGE Error logged from Ant UI:
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.jface.text.BadLocationException
at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractLineTracker.getLineDelimiter(AbstractLineTracker.java:350)
at org.eclipse.jface.text.AbstractDocument.getLineDelimiter(AbstractDocument.java:792)
at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.model.AntModel.getLastCharColumn(AntModel.java:888)
at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.model.AntModel.computeOffsetUsingPrefix(AntModel.java:859)
at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.model.AntModel.computeOffsetUsingPrefix(AntModel.java:859)
at …

But it keeps filling up my .log exponentially, I bet that’s why it grew to 400M in the first place…
I’m not sure if it is related to the Database Explorer in some way.

I tried switching worspaces – the same problem.

If I reinstall both Eclipse and MyEclipse – would I be able to save all my configuration settings?

Thanks!
MArina

[Riyad Kalla]

Marina,
Yes this is definately an install issue (not terribly surprising since M4 and Beta are both early betas so there will be bugs). We always encourage our users to stay with stable releases of Everything (Eclipse 3.0.2 and MyEclipse 3.8.4) but if you need the latest and greatest, you can grab Eclipse 3.1M7 (not RC1) and MyEclipse 3.8.4 Beta for M7 then go ahead and install those.

Note, there are known bugs in this beta including JSP validation is broken (doesn’t happen) AND there are problems opening some dialogs (XDoclet, JDBC Driver configuration and one other). So again, if you need to be productive and not waste time with bugs, we encourage only using stable releases.

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