I've finally bitten the bullet and moved up to Eclipse 3.0.1. (Well, I've now got Eclipse 2 and Eclipse 3 both running on my machine...)
The reason for making the change is that I needed to be able to do some application profiling, and jmechanic doesn't work with recent changes to the java 1.4 API :-(
jmechanic development seems to have stalled, and it is unclear whether there will ever be a new release, since the Hyades project seems to be doing a much more comprehensive job of performance measurement and testing integration with the workbench...
I have finally managed to do some profiling of a WOApplication running in the Workbench, but I do have a number of comments and questions about my experiences. I'd appreciate knowing whether this is the correct forum...
Comments relate to Eclipse 3.0.1 RC2, J2SDK1.4.2_05 and WOLips 1.1.0.82 beta 3
1) WOLips records a dependency on a org.apache.xerces plugin (via an optional Ant plugin) that has been removed from the Eclipse distribution - on the grounds that Eclipse 3 now depends on JRE 1.4, which already includes Xerces. Editing the ant plugin.xml file to remove the dependency allows WOLips to be installed via the configuration manager - though of course this means unzipping the site locally first... However the dependency only seems to be in optional files - so any idea why the configuration manager should be choking?
2) WOLips profiling, of course, doesn't work - since the interface for Hyades is very different. Are there plans to update WOLips to use Hyades instead of jmechanic? It would be really nice to be able to create a profiling configuration where everything just works, rather than having to run the application with the added -XrunpiAgent:server=enabled argument, then connect to the application later...
3) The step up to Eclipse 3 certainly seems worth all the pain it took to get there...
* Sorry for being vague - it took me several days to get this right, and
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