[ashishd2]

Does MyEclipse supports decompiletion facility?
I mean can we generate java code from a class file?
Is there any way or plug-in?

[Riyad Kalla]

Not at this time, but there are plenty of Eclipse plugins that can install along side MyEclipse to accomplish this. I believe jadclipse is a popular one.

[Mark Wiltshire]

just to point out jadeclipse is incompatible with myeclipse

[Mark Wiltshire]

although, this might get it working

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122110/is-there-a-way-to-get-jadclipse-working-with-eclipse-3-4

i.e. copy the jar to the plugins directory and restart myeclipse

[Mark Wiltshire]

NOTE – I have now got this working

Here are my install notes on Mac

Additions to MyEclipse

a) JAD

see – http://jadclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

i) install jad. note path where this is installed.
on my Mac this is /Java/jadmx158/jad

ii) download jar from wiki page above, and place in your ‘dropins’ folder of your myeclipse directory
on Mac this is /Library/Genuitec/My Eclipse 7.5/dropins

Then restart myEclipse, check it is working by selecting method of class in a jar,
e.g. Struts API, then look at method by hitting f3
You should now see decompiled e.g. ServletRequest.class

you can check where the jadeclispe is pointing under
MyEclipse Workbench > Preferences > Java > JadClipse

hope that helps.

[support-joy]

markw21,

Thank you for sharing your findings with us. This will help other users looking for a Java Decompiler eclipse plugin.

[tbrecknock]

I also am trying to get JADClipse working with MyEclipse 7.5 (on Windows Vista)

I have followed the above instructions
installed jad
copied the net.sf.jadclipse_3.3.0.jar to the MyEclipse 7.5\dropins folder

and NO Windows > Preferences > Java > JadClipse !

is there something I am missing??? Is there something required to get MyEclipse to recognisae that there is something new in the dropins folder? I have read that Eclipse can use a -clean argument at startup is there something similar for MyEclipse?

[support-joy]

Taffy,

Let me reiterate that MyEclipse doesn’t provide an integrated support for JadClipse. But as users have mentioned, you may be able to add it as a plugin. Can you please verify if your JADClipse plugin is compatible to that of Eclipse 3.4.2? If yes, can you place the net.sf.jadclipse_3.3.0.jar instead of MyEclipse 7.5\dropins folder to MyEclipse 7.5\dropins\plugins folder. In case “plugins” folder is not existing, please create one. Next restart MyEclipse 7.5. I would recommend you to check this plugin under Help > About MyEclipse WorkBench > Plugin Details and look for JadClipse plugin here.

[tbrecknock]

I think that it is quite clear that MyEclipse does not provide integrated support for JadClipse. My issue was with the fact that I could not get third party plugins to work. I have eventually got my plugins to work. I placed the myplugins.link file (containing the path to my plugin location) in the dropins folder and it loaded all the plugins. Although before it would do this I needed to uninstall MyEclipse 7.5 and reinstall it using its default install location. I had installed it to a custom location, but this seemed to have broken the puls plugin manager, which would through an error during processing and tell me to check the log. The location of the log was specified so I have no idea what its contents were. Can you tell me where the “log” would have been created?

[support-joy]

Taffy,

Good to hear you are all set with plugins.
MyEclipse log files are located at [your workspace dir]/.metadata/.log and
Pulse log files are located at [your pulse install dir]/common/logs (look for ~\Genuitec\Common\logs\)

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