[Jon Ericson]

Hi

I’m using a version of myEclipse that is licensed to the school where I am taking a class. The license is set to expire in a couple of weeks and I am strongly thinking of purchasing a subscription to continue using it at work.

Two questions:

a) Do I need to re-download everything again when I renew / purchase a subscription?

b) (Unrelated) How do I tell what version of Struts the tool is currently using?

Thanks.
😕

[Riyad Kalla]

First, thank you for the interest and support.

a) Nope, just purchase your subscription, you will get it emailed to you, then go into Window > Prefs > MyEclipse > Subscriptions and enter in your new subscription information and hit Apply then OK. All done.

b) If you mean what version of Struts the current project is using, you can open the project properties (right click on project root) then go to MyEclipse-Struts, a field called “Struts Version” will show it. (This might be new with 3.8.4, so make sure you have upgraded.)

[Jesse Clark]

On a similar note: How can I determine which version of the jakarta libraries are being used in Struts 1.2 projects under MyEclipse 3.8.4?

TIA,

-Jesse

[Riyad Kalla]

Isn’t this the same question I answered in point (b)?

[Jesse Clark]

Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear enough about what I wanted to know. This is almost more of a Struts question and if you don’t have a quick answer I can take it to a different forum.

I am trying to figure out which version of commons-beanutils.jar is packaged with Struts 1.2. The jar in the MyEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.eclipse.cross.easystruts.eclipse_3.8.3/data/1.2/lib directory isn’t versioned and I can’t seem to find anything in the jar that provides a version number, but perhaps I just don’t know where to look.

Thanks,
-j

[Riyad Kalla]

This is an ingenious side effect of Jakarta not requiring versions on their binary builds, unfortunately I don’t have a better way to do this than ask on their mailing list.

[AKunze]

How can I detect, wich version of Struts 1.2 is working in myeclipse
(struts 1.2.4 or Struts 1.2.6)?

thanks

[Riyad Kalla]

We ship 1.2.4 for our 1.2 libraries. The way you find this out is ask me 🙂

[Wayne Kidd]

Is it possible to switch versions of struts for an existing project? If so, how do you do it?

Wayne

[Riyad Kalla]

Wayne,
Sure, I’ve done this with new releases. Restart Eclipse (To close all read locks), then just drop all the new struts JARs into the /lib dir and it will overwrite all the old ones. If any of the copies fails, it is likely due to a read lock, so just shut down Eclipse and do it externally (be sure to refresh when you load back up).

We don’t do anything fancy, we try and keep the tool as unobtrusive as possible, so the libraries we add aren’t “Special” in anyway, go ahead and overwrite them all you want. But if you get too crazy (with nightly builds and stuff) then some of the tools might break because they assume certain classes exist and such.

[Wayne Kidd]

If I swap out the libraries, will MyEclipse know what release I am using? I would rather keep together with ME (using the libraries from the plugin) than go all the way to current. I want the ME system to reflect the release I am using to help with support issues.

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Wayne

[Riyad Kalla]

Wayne,
What release are you trying to upgrade to? We had to make some changes for the designer tools from 1.1 to 1.2, so I imagine as long as you are using a 1.2.x release it should be fine, but if you are using 1.3 nightly or something like that, then that will not be supported.

[Wayne Kidd]

I just want to get to 1.2, but I want to do it in such a way that it looks to ME like I built it that way in the first place.

Wayne

[Riyad Kalla]

Wayne,
I don’t understand what you are concerned about happening. Dropping in 1.2 JARs should “just work”, if there is some other concern you are having please clarify it for me so I can address it.

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