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I downloaded myeclipse8.5 to try. I wanted to know if it was possible to debug a Geronimo v2.2 Dynamic Web Project through the JSP and into the Java classes with dynamic class reloading.
In a nutshell, no it’s no possible. I’m actually surprised that myeclipse becomes so unusable.
I install myeclipse 8.5 using the default install directory.
I go through through the wizard to create the dynamic web project. I want to deploy on Geronimo v2.2. I download the server plugin. It doesn’t matter if I restart myeclipse or decide not to. After that I get the ‘executable launcher unable locate companion shared library’. So I do my google search and see if I can recover from that. No, not really. I reinstall myeclipse. And try again. Even if I keep the original version of the myeclipse.ini it still fails to start.
Frankly, I’m quite unimpressed. If I could do what appears to be simple–that is, deploy a web application and debug it, it would be great. But I have wasted several hours verifying that genuitec does not adequately test their product before releasing. This is a recurring bug. It’s been around since version 7 at least. I mean, it’s great that myeclipse can do all these wonderful things, but if doing something trashes the environment to the point that I have to reinstall and try again–reinstall over 1GB of files?
So it’s back to eclipse. Too bad.
Good luck with your product, but I won’t be using it anytime soon. And I’ve certainly will not recommend your product to my team either.
Kurt,
Sorry to hear about your experience. Can you tell us exactly what plugin you installed and how, so we can try to replicate this locally? What update site did you use for instance?
Frankly, I’m quite unimpressed. If I could do what appears to be simple–that is, deploy a web application and debug it, it would be great. But I have wasted several hours verifying that genuitec does not adequately test their product before releasing.
There are thousands of plugins publicly available, it is not possible for us to test MyEclipse with every update site out there. The reason MyEclipse won’t start is possibly because something went wrong in the update process – which is likely caused by incompatibilities with what you tried to install and MyEclipse (though this should have been reported earlier). If you give us more details I hope I to be able to track it down.
On to the next point, MyEclipse does support Geronimo 2.x inherently. You don’t need any additional plugin to be able to deploy and debug a web application deployed to Geronimo. In a stock MyEclipse install, go to Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Servers > Geronimo 2.2 to configure the Geronimo connector. You can then start / stop the server and run or debug applications deployed to it. Though I would recommend using a MyEclipse web application project, dynamic web projects can be deployed as well. Do you have any reason for using an external plugin?
Thanks for writing in.
