[Alexandru Popescu]

Yesterday I have tried installing MyEclipse 7.5 on my system that already had MyEclipse 7.1.1, but noticed that Pulse is trying to reuse for installation the folder that currently keeps the configuration, features and plugins for 7.1.1 so I thought it will not work.

Maybe my install of 7.1.1 is incorrect:

/Applications/mye-71 (contains configuration, empty dropins, executable)
/Applications/mye-71-commons (contains empty configuration, features, plugins)
/Applications/Pulse

(Now that I look at it, it looks like while installing 7.1.1 it wasn’t clear which parts are unique to MyEclipse 7.1.1 and which might be common to multi-installations).

Anyways, I am not definitely not clear why while installing MyEclipse 7.5, Pulse is saying that *I must use* /Applications/mye-71-commons folder.

Can you please clarify how can I get both versions on my machine?

tia

[Alexandru Popescu]

I might be wrong but it looks like the 7.1 installer has some fixed locations to install some pieces:
– it creates an /Applications/MyEclipse 7.1 folder: what is this used for?
– /Applications/Pulse

Last but not least, after digging a bit into the folder that’s called commons (configuration and plugins used by all Genuitec products) this seems rather incorrect: what is installed in that folder seems to be extremely particular to one MyEclipse version.

Am I wrong?

[Ton Huisman]

After installing ME 7.5 using the All-in-One installer, the only peculiarity I saw is that ME 7.1.1 starts with the splash screen of 7.5, probably because this is loaded from the Common directory, but for the rest it’s all 7.1.1

HTH
Ton

[Alexandru Popescu]

huisma13: so you’re saying that you have followed the suggested installation configuration and in the end you are able to use both 7.1.1 and 7.5? How have you checked that?

thanks

[Ton Huisman]

Correct, and by looking at Help/ About MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench I can see what version I’m working with. (And by the missing features when working with ME 7.1.1 ofcourse 😉 )

HTH
Ton

[Alexandru Popescu]

@huisma13: I have tried installing 7.1.1 (after having MyEclipse 7.5 installed) and even if I’m starting MyEclipse 7.1 what I’m seeing look to be both MyEclipse 7.5 and 7.1.1.

To confirm this: Go to About MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench.
The dialog displays Version 7.1.1
Version: 7.1.1
Build id: 7.1.1-20090310

If you click one of the 4 icons listed there and you’ll see that:
– Eclipse version in 3.4.2 (while MyEclipse 7.1.1 is supposed to have Eclipse 3.4.1)
– MyEclipse version is both 7.5.0 and 7.1.1:
Version: 7.5.0.zmyeclipse75020090612
Build id: 7.1.1-20090310

Now I must confess that I’m totally confused. Is it 7.1.1 or is it 7.5? Or is it something else?

[Ton Huisman]

I think the problem here is you installed 7.1.1 after installing 7.5. Support should be able to tell how this is going to be handled, but I’m afraid it can only work when first installing 7.1.1, and then using the 7.5 installer to install the extra 7.5 set.

HTH
Ton

[Riyad Kalla]

Alex,

Ton is correct, if you want both 7.1 and 7.5 on the machine, wipe the machine (you can do this by running the installers or just wiping out the /Pulse, /MyEclipse* directories manually) and reinstall 7.1 then 7.5 after it.

The typical layout for the installation dirs is as follows:
/Pulse – The root install of Pulse that is silently installed on the machine when ME is installed.
/Pulse/Commons – The common directory to all Pulse-managed software, whether it’s MyEclipse, Eclipse or anything else you decide to provision. The /plugins and /features folders are unions of ALL the plugins and features used by ALL profiles that you have provisioned through Pulse.
/<Specific Software Dir, like “MyEclipse 7.1” or “MyEclipse 7.5”> – The dir specific to the software installed that contains the “profile” for that piece of software… that profile is like a manifest to Pulse telling it which plugins to load out of /common when starting up. It also provides a software-specific /dropins folder to be used for manually adding software.

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