#223 Problems installing plugin for Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)
I am having trouble installing the DrJava Eclipse plugin for Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo). I have tried with both 0.9.8 and
0.9.9.20090115-r4708. I have tried putting the jar file in the plugins directory (which is not recommended by Eclipse, but which is suggested in the README file: "Copy edu.rice.cs.drjava_[version].jar into the "plugins" directory of your Eclipse installation." On restart Eclipse does not have DrJava loaded. I have also tried to put the jar file in the dropins directory (recommended by Eclipse), and still no go.
We are running linux (RHEL Server 5.3) on a Dell PowerEdge R410 (arch reports "x86_64)", and Eclipse Version: 3.5.0 Build id: I20090611-1540, if that helps.
I am hoping to move to Eclipse 3.5 for my intro course, but I need the DrJava plugin to work. Otherwise we'll stay with 3.4 (for which DrJava 0.9.8 seems to work fine).
Any thoughts? I need to make a decision by the end of this week (by Sept 11 '09) about which version to go with :-)
Thanks!
Carl
Hi Carl,
No one on the DrJava team uses Eclipse. We do all of our Java development using DrJava. i was not aware that our plugin does not work with Eclipse 3.5, but I am not surprised. The Eclipse development team evidently has never heard of backward compatibility.
We periodically have one of our student developers update the DrJava Eclipse plugin to work with the current version of Eclipse. We will eventually get the plugin to work with Eclipse 3.5 but it will not happen in the next few weeks. For now I suggest using Eclipse 3.4.