[mikewse]

[Windows 2000, Java 1.4.2_07, Eclipse 3.1M4, MyEclipse 3.8.4 (3.1 Beta)]

In both Eclipse 3.0 and 3.1 I am used to be able to supply Eclipse’s own Internet Proxy settings on the command line like this:

  eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx512M 
    -Dhttp.proxyHost=xxx -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 
    -Dhttp.auth.ntlm.domain=xxx

instead of having to enter it into every workspace I use. In a “pure” Eclipse 3.0 or 3.1 this works fine, automatically showing the supplied proxy information in Eclipse’s Install/Update Preferences.

This has also worked fine with my installation of Eclipse 3.0.1 with MyEclipse 3.8.2.
But now with my installation of Eclipse 3.1M4 with MyEclipse 3.8.4 it doesn’t work any longer and the Install/Update proxy settings come up empty. This is my test scenario:

1) Using the above command line on a “pure” Eclipse 3.1M4 and creating a new workspace results in the Install/Update Proxy settings showing the desired settings in the Preferences window, and the settings are “active”.

2) If using the same command line when MyEclipse 3.8.4 (3.1 Beta) has been integrated, a newly created workspace will have no signs of my proxy settings.

It seems odd that MyEclipse is “destroying” settings behaviour in Eclipse…

[Riyad Kalla]

I will file this ASAP for investigation, I think I know why this is happening…we added a GUI module for configuring the proxy info for our editors and tools and I think these must be overriding you settings, but they should auto-populate like the Eclipse ones are.

[mikewse]

Oh, I have never seen any auto-population of MyEclipse’s own proxy settings in the Preferences dialog. With my 3.8.2 setup, where Eclipse’s settings will auto-populate, I have had to manually enter the proxy settings for MyEclipse.

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