Re: Experiences with Eclipse 3 and WOLips

From: Ulrich Köster (ulric..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 13:48:04 EDT

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    Am 13.10.2004 um 14:42 schrieb Bill Michell:

    > 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?

    Is that with an upgraded Eclipse 3 from 2.1.* or with a vanilla Eclipse
    version?

    >
    > 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...

    Hyades is not available for MacOSX. Correct me if I'm wrong. When it's
    available for MacOSX we could talk about it.

    There are some tips on this list on how to use JMechanic with Eclipse 3.

    >
    > 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

    ?

    Ulrich



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