q fixed this last night (or this morning ... whatever). the latest
wolips build should no longer suffer from this.
ms
On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Tim Worman wrote:
>
>> All:
>>
>> This past weekend I was traveling and looking to do some work while
>> I at 30,000 feet. On these flights I did not have a network
>> connection and it caused me a lot of trouble with Eclipse/WOLips. I
>> guess I have to ask the question - does WO development require a
>> network connection to function properly? Here's some symptoms I saw:
>>
>> 1. Eclipse could not resolve any dependencies to the core
>> WebObjects frameworks - eocontrol, foundation, etc. As a result no
>> projects would build. This wasn't happening when there was a
>> network connection. If I added the jar versions of these to the
>> build path it would fix everything.
>
> The problem is that _some_ of the frameworks have this in their
> info.plist:
>
> xx208110100003:~/Cadre/Code/WebObjects chuck$ cat /System/Library/
> Frameworks/JavaEOControl.framework/Resources/Info.plist
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
> ">
>
> If the XML parser wants the DTD, it needs a network connection. As
> a short term solution, just delete the DOCTYPE line from the
> affected / used frameworks.
>
>
>> 2. Every time I launched Eclipse I would get an error that an
>> info.plist inside a framework file could not be read/parsed. I
>> think it gave this error on two different frameworks. I remember at
>> one point seeing something in the console that made it seem there
>> was an attempt to reach apple.com somewhere.
>
> See above. :-)
>
>
>> 3. Sometimes while I was experiencing these problems I would go
>> Build Path >> Configure Build Path and the resulting window would
>> be blank and there was an error about incorrect values (or
>> something :-)).
>>
>> 4. other windowing and widget strangeness, failures, errors, etc.
>
> Probably the result of an unexpected exception.
>
>
>> Admittedly I'm using Eclipse 3.5 Cocoa and WOLips for 3.5 (on Mac
>> OS X). All these problems go away as soon as I have an active
>> network connection. It seems crazy that this would be normal but,
>> then again, maybe I'm not normal. :-)
>
>
> :-P
>
> Chuck
>
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