[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi MyEclipse Support,

I have a <b>registered</b> MyEclipse version running on my machine. Since this morning, whenever I try to EDIT my existing project files [not necessarily JSP’s, even HTMLs] MyEclipse hangs and takes 20-30 mins to come out. And then, the moment I make another ‘edit’ on the JSP/HTML editor window, it hangs for another 20~ mins. It is really frustrating and am completely mad on how to handle this.

I haven’t INSTALLED/UNINSTALLED any software on my machine for the last 2-3 weeks and till yesterday midnite MyEclipse was working very fine. All the trouble started only this morning. I am completely clueless on how to go about handling this and would appreciate if someone can give pointers.

My environment is given below.

OS – Win 2K 5.00.2195 Service Pack 3
Eclipse Version: 2.1.1 Build id: 200306271545
Was eclipse freshly installed ? YES
How many plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory are like org.eclipse.pde.* ? 7
Are any other external plugins installed?
NO
MyEclipse Version: 2.6.3 Build id: 200310201200
JDK Version – java version “1.4.2_01”
What JDK version are you using to launch your application server?
SAME JDK
What application server are you using?
Tomcat 4.1

This is really hampering my development work since morning and would really appeciate if someone could help.

Best regards,
Karthik.

[Scott Anderson]

Karthik,

First, I’m very sorry you’re experiencing this problem. We’ve gotten one other report on similar behavior but haven’t been able to isolate the cause. Are you on a network? Can you turn off both JSP compilation and XML validation and see if the problem persists? Does this happen with any project or just a specific one? Are you using lots of taglibs? How big is the project?

Here’s another thread where we’re trying to run down the same issues but need some assistance in determining the commonality that is causing this:
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/jsp-editor-bug-v3-6-3/

The big problem is our not being able to reproduce the behavior. Anything you can do to help isolate it so we can fix it will be greatly appreciated.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your quick, spot-on, immediate support. It really helps us save a lot of time. Please find below the answers to your queries.

Are you on a network?
<b>
yes
</b>

Can you turn off both JSP compilation and XML validation and see if the problem persists?
<b>
I turned off both. Still the problem persists. As a matter of fact, I am just trying to edit a simple HTML template which doesn’t have anything to do with JSPs or XML validation. 🙁
</b>

Does this happen with any project or just a specific one?
<b>
After you raised this question, I checked the JSPs and HTMLs in other projects. This scenario happens only with a particular project.
</b>

Are you using lots of taglibs?
<b>
nopes. As a matter of fact, our application model is not based on taglibs. It is based on simple templateing mechanism. The editor hangs when I try to change my HTML templates.
<b>

How big is the project?
<b>
Project size is on lower-medium end. There are about 30 servlets and 60 template files, overall.
</b>

Is there is any option to recreate my project file or something? what possibly could have gone wrong with this project since this morning? 🙁

I am helpless here.

Thanks,
Karthik.

[Scott Anderson]

Karthik,

Is the project currently deployed? If so, can you undeploy it and see if the problem persists? Is it possible for you to send us your project in a zip? If not, can you at least send us all the ‘.’ files to support@genuitec.com?

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[No Operation]

The symptome reminds me that some trouble I had vanished since I use the -server switch.

Are you using the -server option? Here is my command line:

[cmd]
C:\eclipse2.1.1\eclipse.exe -vm \j2sdk1.4.2_02\bin\javaw.exe -server -Xmx1024
[/cmd]

NOP

[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi Scott,

I apologise for this long delay but as you know, my project’s strict deadline didn’t allow me to experiment with various settings last week. I took the help of JEdit to quickly work on my files last week. Now coming back to our issues, please find my answers below.

Is the project currently deployed?

Yes

If so, can you undeploy it and see if the problem persists?

I tried this. Still it persists.

Is it possible for you to send us your project in a zip? If not, can you at least send us all the ‘.’ files to support@genuitec.com?

Yes. I wouldn’t be able to send you the project source code. But I can definitely send you few sample files which takes infinite amount of time to load up on MyEclipse HTML Editor.

Over the weekend, I also did fresh install Eclipse 2.1.2 RC2 and MyEclipse 2.6.3 to see whether this problem goes away. I kind of figured what the problem could be. The HTML files I am sending to you in email, are the actual files which are giving me trouble opening up in MyEclipse HTML editor. But, when I try to open them up in OpenWith -> TextEditor option of Eclipse, it opens without any issues.

To start with, I also disabled MyEclipse Preferences->Editors->JSP/HTML Editor -> JSP Compiler Build Behavior to
Don’t Compile JSP’s. As a last resort, I also unchecked all options on JSP/HTML Editor ->Format Tab options. Still it didn’t help.

The size of my HTML files is in excess of 15 KB, and also, the files not necessarly have a matching opening/closing HTML tags. I believe, missing HTML tags might have probably confused MyEclipse HTML Editor into some kind of infinite loop or something. This might be the reason why when I open it up in HTML Edior, it goes into infinite loop and never comes out. Everytime I try to open it in HTML Editor, I end up killing my Eclipse Process.

Could you please let me know, if you think otherwise?

Thanks,
Karthik.

[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi Scott,

As one final test, I created an empty MyEclipse->J2EE->Web Module project and added just one HTML source[which I had sent to you in a separate email]. When I try to open up this single HTML source in MyEclipse JSP/HTML editor, it just hangs and I end up killing the Eclipse process to come out of it.

The same HTML source opens up instantly on Eclipse -> Text Editor.

Probably, you can try the same at your end, and let me know the findings.

Regards,
Karthik.

[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi Scott,

I see a parallel thread with topic, ‘ JSPs with tags open very slowly on windows’ going on about JSP editor performance. While browsing through that, I read JSP Editor problem on opening nested table statements in JSP/HTML files. I checked my troublesome HTML file(s) and see nested tables upto 3 levels. Is this really the root cause for locking up my CPU? As I had told you, I have sent you the file via email, which you can use for your in-house testing to reproduce the lock-up scenario.

If this really is the case, I would appreciate if your development team can work on building a patch on this as a priority basis.

Best regards,
Karthik.

[support-michael]

This problem has top priority and we are hustling to get it repaired ASAP. Once we know it is a reliable fix we will immediately release it.

Michael
MyEclipse Support

[Karthik Arumugham]

Hi MyEclipse Support,

I updated MyEclipse to version 2.6.4, and MyEclipse HSP/HTML editor performance is much better. I am able to open my nested table HTML files in less than 2 seconds. This is really good and I really appreciate your quick turnaround time in fixing this issue.

As always, MyEclipse support rocks !!!

Thanks,
Karthik.

[Scott Anderson]

Karthik,

Thank you very much for following up and letting us know that the issue has been resolved. I can now (thankfully) close this thread since the issue has been addressed in 2.6.4/3.6.4.

Thanks to all our users for their patience while we made and tested the improvements.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

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