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My Sub is set to expire in about 26 days. I was curious how renewal was handled? Will it renew automatically? Will it require manual steps? etc..
Thanks.
If you purchase a subscription ($30/year, about 8 cents a day), once you enter in that subscription information, the expiration date will be set to roughly 1 year from your date of purchase.
If you are currently using the trial (30 days) then after the time runs out MyEclipse will begin to nag you, and then eventually start threatening you to buy it 😀 (Kidding!)
Riyad,
Based on the ‘joined date’ and the ‘Registered Member’ status that our esteemed user is showing, I’m going to have to conclude that he (or she?) is one of our very first paid subscribers and is wondering how to renew the subscriptoin for the next year. 🙂
Will it renew automatically?
No, we’d never presuppose that you want to renew or try to force you in any way. Basically, when you’re within 30 days (used to be 20) of expiration of your subscription you’ll find that all of the payment links on the portal will be reactivated so that you can subscribe again. The process is exactly as it was the first time you joined, basically electronic payment and fulfillment of a new license key by email.
Since you’ll truly be one of the first renewals, I’d appreciate it if you could follow up and let us know if you experience any issues with the process so that we can try to improve it before the renewal rate ramps up in the coming months.
Thank you very much for your continued interest and support for MyEclipse!
One more thing. I was just reminded that when we rolled out MyEclipse one year ago, we made a promise to our early users. We promised that no subscription would expire before one year after the first GA release was available. Although we had several preview releases before then, the GA release date was 6/21/2003. As fulfillment of our promise, the software is hardcoded to never expire a subscription before 6/22/2004, no matter what date is actually encoded in the key.
So, to our very early adopters like vbfischer, we again say thank you and want to let you know that you really all have about 30 days left on those very early subscriptions that were so important to help us get going.
Based on the ‘joined date’ and the ‘Registered Member’ status that our esteemed user is showing, I’m going to have to conclude that he (or she?) is one of our very first paid subscribers and is wondering how to renew the subscriptoin for the next year.
Woops! Yes I just re-read his question and realized that I didn’t answer it very effectively, thanks for clarifing this.
vbfischer,
I promise next year when you ask this, I’ll be much more helpful 😀Riyad, no problemo… I was a little vague.
Thanks Scott. I see the link now. I’ll renew it in a few days. I’ll let you know if I have any problems. No news will be good news.
Gotta say, it was the best $30 bucks spent, and it gets better each time.
Gotta say, it was the best $30 bucks spent, and it gets better each time.
Thanks! Yes, thinking back on the feature set when you first subscribed and looking at what’s in the 2.8 beta it’s really like night and day. Hard to believe it’s been a year already though. Time sure flys. 🙂
Considering I spent about $400 on Struts Studio (+ $170 to upgrade to version 5, and version 6 coming out much less than a year), $30/year is chump change.
Its ok. The main thing they have that MyEclipse does not is the diagraming. But to be honest, its such a pain in the rear, its usually easier to just make the entries yourself. For example, when you create an Action in Struts Studio, you specify the path, name (form bean), and type (the action class). All this does is put those entries in your struts config file. You have to create the Action Class by right clicking, and tell it to generate source. But that’s not all, you have to still create the form bean entry in the struts config, and again generate the source.
The one product I was really impressed with, albiet I’ve only played with the demo for about an hour, was NitroX from M7 (http://www.m7.com/). Specifically, the JSP WYSIWYG editor. It also had code completion for included bean properties when typing them in a JSP form. You can even drag a property from a Bean to the JSP, and it will create the input entry on the JSP. Pretty cool. What I don’t like it the diagramming notation they use. I guess it looks slick, but it really takes up a lot of realestate, and doesn’t look all that functional. I’d rather see someone use some kind of standard UML notation, like the “Web Application Extension Profile” (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201730383/qid=1085166867/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0830645-8339231?v=glance&s=books)
Sorry, looks like I’m hijacking my own thread!
