Problems testing with v10.7

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December 17, 2012 at 5:59 pm #333451 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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I don’t even know how to come up with search words for this.

I have build id: 10.7-20121026

I have a J2EE Web only application that I have been working with for a couple of years on prior versions of MyEclipse. Ever since upgrading to v10.7 I have had constant problems.

The biggest one is testing with JBoss v4.2.3. As I am going through my web application it will just quit responding. If I click on various links on the page it will eventually start responding again. In debug it is even worse.

I don’t even know how to explain it other than it just goes away and then starts working again a few minutes later if I hit enough links back to the application running in MyEclipse.

December 18, 2012 at 12:33 am #333455 Reply

support-swapna
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WGPuckett,

Sorry that you are seeing this issue.

Can you answer some more questions for us ?

1. From which version of MyEclipse did you upgrade to MyEclipse 10.7 ?

2. Can you please switch to a new workspace, import the project and check if you still see the issue? If the issue persists, please copy paste the entire contents of the .log file which is located at <workspace dir>/.metadata/.log here for us to investigate further.

3. Can you also check if you can deploy this project to any other server apart from JBoss and see if the same issue exists ?

December 18, 2012 at 9:04 am #333471 Reply
Glenn Puckett
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I tried switching to a new workspace and importing with the same result. So I went back to the original workspace because the source is linked to a source management system. I switched from version 8.x to 10.x. I can’t remember for sure but I think it was 8.4. But it could have been a later version. I tried to move to v10 several times and always had problems. This fall I kept at it until it worked. At this point I can’t describe the specific problems I had attempting to convert.

The log file is quite long. I will try to paste the entire file here. But it really is just a repeating error. If it won’t let me post it all I will post the more current records that it will let me.
December 19, 2012 at 5:58 am #333501 Reply

Brian Fernandes
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WG

1) We’re working on a maintenance release for the 10.7 release so if you could enumerate the other problems you’ve been having, that would help too.

2) I assume you are starting the same JBoss instance from both 10.x and 8.x or are you using a different installation?

3) If I understand this correctly, the app not responding sounds more like a problem with the JBoss instance as opposed to MyEclipse. I’m assuming that during this time MyEclipse continues to work fine?

4) Are you using a 64-bit instance of MyEclipse or a 32-bit instance? A 64-bit instance will take more memory, you could try increasing the settings in myeclipse.ini – you could also increase the memory given the the JBoss server instance on the JBoss server configuration page, that could make a difference as well.

December 19, 2012 at 8:16 am #333508 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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I will get some information together for you.

First, however, a quick reply.

I have 2 major applications I have developed with MyEclipse. The first one is about 8 years old and the other is about 2 years old. They were developed from the beginning using MyEclipse and were running fine inside MyEcluipse up to the point I upgraded to v10.x. I was able to fully debug the code and had no problems with anything outside my application code. (The only complaint I have had with MyEclipse are the bogus syntax errors it finds in JSPs) So I really doubt very much that the problem could be with JBoss itself since it hasn’t changed. It may be that v10 has a problem working with JBoss v.4.x. I know that is extremely down level. But I can’t upgrade to a more current release until my user funds the task. Lately I have had no choice but to start JBoss as a service on my machine to test and then use a lot of log4j output. But the code does run fine in that fashion. (JBoss does already have a large memory allocation.)

I just ran into a problem this morning where a project that I could deploy the EAR file with no problems yesterday now will not deploy. This morning it started complaining that it could not deploy the EAR because there are spaces in the ejb and web project names. I tried renaming the ejb and web project. It now says it cannot find the ear jar file OR the web war file and I can’t even begin to recover to where I was. I am trying to recreate the enterprise project and then import the source. This will work I am sure but I will loose the links to the svn repository.

I have a project that has several background tasks. Forever if I tried running any of these from MyEclipse I would quickly get a protection exception from the Java VM and it would fail with all sorts of messages. That appears to have gone away recently but I’m not sure why.

I have increased the Xmx setting in the myeclipse.ini file. We’ll see if that helps.

I’m not entirely sure if I have the 32-bit or 64-bit version. When I look at the “About” output it does not mention either. I did find the following statement in the ini file:

–launcher.library
../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.i18n.win32.win32.x86_64_4.2.0.v201201111650

Does that help?

December 19, 2012 at 9:15 am #333514 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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Copy-Paste often quits working. Sometimes all I need to do is save the module I am working on and it will start working again. Other times I’ll have to close the module and re-open it in edit. Occasionally I have to close MyEclipse completely. This one is extremely frustrating!!!

This is extremely random. I can never repeat the problem in a logical manner. I’ll just need to do a copy-paste and find it’s not working.

December 19, 2012 at 11:00 am #333518 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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@WGPuckett wrote:

Copy-Paste often quits working. Sometimes all I need to do is save the module I am working on and it will start working again. Other times I’ll have to close the module and re-open it in edit. Occasionally I have to close MyEclipse completely. This one is extremely frustrating!!!

This is extremely random. I can never repeat the problem in a logical manner. I’ll just need to do a copy-paste and find it’s not working.[/quote

It appears that by turning off smart insert the cut-paste problem goes away. Is there not a way to permanently disable smart insert?

December 28, 2012 at 4:29 pm #333740 Reply
Glenn Puckett
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I get the following failure constantly when trying to run a regular background type program or a Swing/SWT program.
This happens on both a 64-bit and 32-bit Windows 7 o/s. I encountered it today trying to test an SWT program on a 32-bit Win 7 machine.

The log file contains:
January 2, 2013 at 4:14 am #333762 Reply

Brian Fernandes
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WG,

Sorry for the delayed response – I missed your initial reply during the holidays.

1) From the details you provided, you are using the 64 bit version on Windows (in version 8, we only had the 32 bit version available). Did increasing the memory settings help – can you tell me what settings you are using in the .ini file? This could make a significant difference now that you are using the 64-bit version.

2) The BundleStatusException you keep seeing repeated in the log can be ignored.

3) I cannot think of any changes that we have made since 10.x from 8.x to JBoss 4 that would cause problems – but there certainly have been changes in our server connector area in that time. Another possible change is the JDK that is being used to start JBoss, I believe we’ve used an earlier version for 8.x as opposed to the 1.6 version in 10.x.

4) In which editor do you have the copy / paste problem or do you have the problem while trying to copy files / folders? If in an editor, if you close and reopen the editor, does that help? Also – how are you trying the copy / paste, do you use the keystrokes, context menu items or the items from the top level menu? If one of these techniques is not working – does another work?

For both problems you are having with your applications and the server connector, I would recommend the following:

a) Install a recent JDK on your machine; a most recent 1.6 or 1.7 version. Configure this version on your JRE preference page.
b) In your JBoss configuration preferences, please choose this version of the JDK. Also, you could add some memory settings here to give JBoss more memory as well.
c) Run your SWT / Swing programs with this JDK instead of the one distributed with MyEclipse.

January 2, 2013 at 5:12 am #333763 Reply

Brian Fernandes
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It appears that by turning off smart insert the cut-paste

Just to be clear, could you please let me know exactly what preference / setting you are referring to here?

January 4, 2013 at 2:00 pm #333830 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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Sorry for the delayed response – I missed your initial reply during the holidays.

1) From the details you provided, you are using the 64 bit version on Windows (in version 8, we only had the 32 bit version available). Did increasing the memory settings help – can you tell me what settings you are using in the .ini file? This could make a significant difference now that you are using the 64-bit version.

I have experienced this on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. I had not changed memory settings on the MyEclipse.ini file. I will give that a try.

2) The BundleStatusException you keep seeing repeated in the log can be ignored.

3) I cannot think of any changes that we have made since 10.x from 8.x to JBoss 4 that would cause problems – but there certainly have been changes in our server connector area in that time. Another possible change is the JDK that is being used to start JBoss, I believe we’ve used an earlier version for 8.x as opposed to the 1.6 version in 10.x.

I have it pointing to Java 1.6 from Oracle. It seems the significant issue here is it runs fine if JBoss is started outside MyEclipse. So if there is a version of Java that is packaged with MyEclipse that is somehow not compatible with this version of JBoss, shouldn’t that be considered an issue with MyEclipse?

4) In which editor do you have the copy / paste problem or do you have the problem while trying to copy files / folders? If in an editor, if you close and reopen the editor, does that help? Also – how are you trying the copy / paste, do you use the keystrokes, context menu items or the items from the top level menu? If one of these techniques is not working – does another work?

I typically edit either Java modules or JSPs. I have the problem in both editors. It does not work using either method. Keystrokes or mouse clicks. It simply stops working unless I get it out of Smart Insert mode or completely restart MyEclipse.

For both problems you are having with your applications and the server connector, I would recommend the following:

a) Install a recent JDK on your machine; a most recent 1.6 or 1.7 version. Configure this version on your JRE preference page. I have already done this and tried both versions.
b) In your JBoss configuration preferences, please choose this version of the JDK. Also, you could add some memory settings here to give JBoss more memory as well. I have also tried this. I tried adding memory to the vm on the server setup page. However, it would not allow me to go above 1G memory. The startup would fail. Now that I have increased the MyEclipse memory maybe that will change.
c) Run your SWT / Swing programs with this JDK instead of the one distributed with MyEclipse. When I set up the SWT project I assigned Java v1.7 because of some of the new SWT capabilities in v1.7. The failure is happening regardless of which version of Java I use.

January 4, 2013 at 2:16 pm #333831 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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@Support-Brian wrote:

It appears that by turning off smart insert the cut-paste

Just to be clear, could you please let me know exactly what preference / setting you are referring to here?

When it starts happening I can hit “cntl-shift-Insert”. It will toggle between Smart Insert and Insert. If it is in Insert mode it will work fine. If it’s in Smart Insert it won’t do any copy/paste at all once it starts. Double clicking will toggle between Overwrite and which ever insert setting it has.

January 6, 2013 at 10:17 am #333849 Reply

Glenn Puckett
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This has gotten totally ridiculous. My development is at a total standstill. Because of all the garbage error messages I was getting I decided to clone my project and try to get the problems smoothed out without screwing up the production copy of the project. It didn’t import just right so I deleted the cloned project and tried to re-import it. My original production copy of the project was deleted. After some investigating the situation I found that if you aren’t careful instead of importing a copy of the code it will simply change the reference to the original project. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS IN A DIFFERENT WORKSPACE.

I don’t know what the deal is with v10 but this is not a reliable piece of software. I have used MyEclipse for years without this sort of BS!!!

I want version 8 back. So far this has cost me 3 weeks of non-productive work just trying to deal with the garbage that v10 has caused.

I deleted the original downloads after installation. Now I can’t find a way to download prior versions. Please, please, please provide a link to where I can obtain a copy of v8 so I can get back to work.

January 7, 2013 at 11:32 am #333872 Reply

Brian Fernandes
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Glen,

1) In our testing, we test JBoss with the version of Java that is distributed with MyEclipse – we haven’t run into any of the problems that you describe; my suggestion about changing the version of the JDK was an attempt to deal with one of the possible changes between 8 and 10, especially given the odd issues you are experiencing. Did you try a new version to start JBoss ultimately and increase the memory specifically for JBoss in the JBoss 4.x > JDK page?

2) I’m very sorry you had a misunderstanding with how the import wizard works – the import wizard does have an option allowing you to copy the project instead of simply referencing it. This is a standard Eclipse feature that has been around for several years.

3) If you see errors when you take the memory beyond 1GB, that would indicate that you are running a 32bit version of MyEclipse or using a 32bit JVM to launch your application.

4) On the copy paste issues, the smart-insert functionality will simply not affect these operations, especially in the Java editor. You mentioned that mouse clicks won’t work either – if you use the context menu item, do you see the Paste action enabled (and clicking it does nothing) or is it disabled? Or does the context menu not show at all?

All I can think of at this point, given the “pausing” problems you are having with your application as well as the copy paste is some sort of slow down on your machine; something that is likely causing MyEclipse itself to go into a not responding state. MyEclipse 10 will require more memory than MyEclipse 8, especially the 64 bit version (though the 32 bit version will use more too) and I think you may have only 3GB of physical memory on this machine (if I read some of your output right). The increased memory used here would leave less physical memory for both JBoss and your external applications, which could be causing any memory related problems to manifest themselves.
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