[Springide-eclip-developer] Re: GEF crash

[Antranig B. <ant...@ca...>]

> What do you mean by "errors"? If the XML is not well-formed or doesn"t 
>  conform to Spring"s DTD then the config file is not parsed and the 
>  corresponding confing node in the bean shows only a single node 
>  containing the parser"s error message. Showing a graph on this config 
>  file or the dummy bean opens an empty graph editor. All the other 
>  errors are detected by Spring IDE"s validator. These kind of errors 
>  don"t have any impact on Spring IDE"s beans view or graph editor 
>  because they are taking effect during runtime of the Spring application 
>  only (they causing configuration errors during initialization of the 
>  "real" BeanFactory).

The errors I had were Spring validation errors. It may simply have 
been coincidence that removing them corrected the problem (see below)

>  > I"m using:
>  > Eclipse 3.0.0
>  > GEF 3.0.1
>  > JDK 1.4.2_04
>  
>  Hhm, I"m not sure if it does matter but GEF 3.0.1 requires Eclipse 
>  3.0.1 (as stated on GEF"s download page).
>  Could you please make an additional test by downgrading to GEF 3.0.0. 
>  Or install the GEF examples and run the Logic example plugin. Maybe 
>  it"s a problem with GEF.

Many thanks, this has resolved the problem - graphs work fine now after
downgrade to GEF 3.0.0. Great plugin!

>  Is anyone else running Eclipse 3.0 with GEF 3.0.1? I"m already on 
>  Eclipse 3.0.1.

Cheers,
Antranig.