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I had already configured the network connections with my proxy and I’m able to connect to various web-based resources in ME while I’m behind my firewall. For example, I am able to use the ME “Examples on Demand” feature with no problems while I’m behind the firewall and Pulse seems to work properly as well. There must be some other thing that is causing the indexing failure (which I suspect might be maven-related) as well as the problems with the Help system. Does anyone have any other ideas? I really want to understand what’s going on…
Paul,
Are you running the same machine at home and at the company? Is this a laptop or two separate machines?
Do you use Maven? If not, I would simply ignore the “Updating Indexes” issue as there could be a few bugs there, which are aggravated by problematic connections. We will be fixing this in the upcoming 8.5 release due in under a month.
If the Index does manage to update successfully (perhaps at home, if this is the same machine), you can go to Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Maven4MyEclipse > Maven and disable the “Download repository index updates on startup” option so that it does not attempt to download an update each time – once for a given workspace will make sure you have an updated index unless you are looking for brand new additions to the repository.
As far as the help is concerned, Eclipse starts an internal web server from which the help documents are served. The Help system will attempt to connect to this server (which runs on your own machine – localhost) to display your help and this is the point at which it appears to be failing. Could you check if your firewall is blocking this connection attempt?
I am running the same machine at both locations; it’s a laptop that I connect through a VPN at home (which can be disabled to create a direct connection to the Internet), and to my company’s LAN when I’m at the office.
What’s most frustrating about the ME networking behavior in general is that it seems to be inconsistent. Some network-dependent features (such as the ME Web Brwser or Pulse) work just fine, but others either don’t work at all or not entirely as I would expect them to.
I am <i>attempting</i> to use Maven and have enabled it “all the way”. I was hoping to use the tool to handle all of the jar/war creation tasks and–hopefully–actually deploy apps to their target remote hosts via ftp? ssh?. As I’m not familiar with Maven, I am persuing this in earnest to make it easier for me to write complete applications and build up my skill set along the way.
Also, I’ve noticed some other inconsistencies with Maven that seem to be related to problematic connections. For example, I’ve noticed that when I attempt to run a Web project as a “MyEclipse Server Application” (case in point the JavaServletExamples project from Examples On-Demand), the start page displays and “works” (i.e., the links to servlets produce content when clicked) when I’m behind the firewall but the start page page doesn’t display when I’m connected directly to the internet, nor does it “work” when I open it in the ME Web Browser.
Are there other problems with Maven4MyEclipse? I’ve noticed it doesn’t work consistently when you create various projects; for example, when you create a new Web project with Maven enabled it creates pom.xml, but the directory structure is standard ME (ie, all Java files below src) not standard Maven (all Java files below src/main/java). When you create a new Java project (from the top of New… menu) it doesn’t have a “Add Maven support” check box and the resulting project apparantly has no Maven support added to it as a result. If you go digging around in the “Other…” menu (which you can bring up with ctrl-N), there is a “Java Maven Project” below MyEclipse/Maven that leads to a minimal project creation dialog that ultimately creates pom.xml and a Maven directory tree, but also a lot of other things I don’t like (e.g., a default packaged named for the the project that contains “App.java”) that require refactoring to set up the way I would like it to be.
Finally, how do I determine if my firewall is blocking access to the help system? I ran netstat /a /b and pasted the output in a previous post…
