I recently had to reinstall Eclipse (for the 10th time) and I ran into a problem when trying to open a repository with Subclipse. Every time I went to open a repo, I got:
This didn't make sense to me. I knew I had SVN installed (I used it at the command line a few minutes before). A quick Google search turned up this this thread where I found the issue was simply that Subclipse was now wanting SVN 1.5, not SVN 1.4 (the default in OSX). For a quick way to grab SVN for 1.5, go here. I'm not sure what I did wrong in my Subclipse install for it to require 1.5, maybe it was the mix of Eclipse 3.4 as well, but either way, this is the solution if you run into the same problem. p.s. I've twitted, ranted, etc, a lot lately about Eclipse. I don't know why, but for a month or so now Eclipse has been so flakey I've almost been tempted to switch to Dreamweaver. Shoot, I've almost been tempted to run my Windows VM just to get HomeSite+. I'd like to blame my troubles on the new plugins I've added for Groovy/JBoss development, but things were flakey before that as well. My new plan of attack though is to have one Eclipse 3.4 install just for work, and just with the Groovy/Java/Flex plugins, and a 100% separate Eclipse 3.3 install with CFEclipse/Adobe CFML Plugins.Unable to load default SVN client
Comment 1 written by Anthony Hixon, Jr. on 5 September 2008, at 9:50 AM
Hopefully, everything will smooth out in 3.4 in a few months.
Comment 2 written by Bliss on 5 September 2008, at 9:55 AM
Comment 3 written by Greg Jastrab on 5 September 2008, at 9:56 AM
http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/08/21/get...
You need to the Java HL Adapter for Subclipse to work in Gandymede.
Comment 4 written by Raymond Camden on 5 September 2008, at 10:00 AM
Comment 5 written by James Allen on 5 September 2008, at 10:11 AM
Oooh SVN in Dreamweaver - superb. I've always loved DW - using it since V1.01 but moved to Eclipse for CF work last year.. I still go back to it for working with ASP though and do like it's feel.
SVN support is a great addition. I don't think I'll switch from Eclipse just yet (I have become dependent on the different workspace feature and the ability to have multiple editor windows open - each one holding it's own set of files).
Comment 6 written by Sid Wing on 5 September 2008, at 10:41 AM
Comment 7 written by Brian Kotek on 5 September 2008, at 10:45 AM
Comment 8 written by Mike Rankin on 5 September 2008, at 10:59 AM
I've been using Ganymede for a while now, and it's actually been really stable for me. The big issue for me is that lots of plugins need to be updated in order to work correctly. A lot of them work for the most part, but it can certainly be frustrating when a part of a plugin doesn't function correctly.
Case in point - the Adobe plugin won't connect to an rds server that I can tell. I wrestled with it for a while, but finally gave up. The debugging, however, does work and is one of the tools I really use a lot. I can't imagine going back to not being able to step through code to find problems.
I actually found the svn support in dwcs4 to be pretty awkward and wound up back in tortoise more often than I would have liked.
Comment 9 written by Edward Beckett on 5 September 2008, at 11:00 AM
This is a shot in the dark but, FWIW ... I've have had similar problems with plug-ins referencing their previous versions after an update. The solution in my case was to go in to the plugin's main directory under (eclipse root)/plugins/(plugin_name)and change out the plugin.xml line at the head of the document to reflect the new plugin ...
I did this for the CFEclipse plug-in ... for a reference .... check out http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/KnownIssu...
HTH
Edward
Comment 10 written by DanaK on 5 September 2008, at 11:22 AM
Comment 11 written by Raymond Camden on 5 September 2008, at 11:53 AM
@Edward Beckit: Interesting - I'll give this a try if my new 3.4 gets flakey again.
@James Allen: Yep, SVN in DW. And to be honest, as much as I give DW a hard time, the new version has some wicked cool features in it. Wicked cool. One example - you can move all inline JS, even event handlers, into external scripts with one button click. That's just one new feature. I'm considering getting more familiar with DW (once the new one is final) just so I can use tools like that from time to time.
Comment 12 written by Brian Kotek on 5 September 2008, at 12:12 PM
Case in point are the CF Eclipse plugins. If RDS doesn't work, that's Adobe's fault, not the Eclipse Foundation's. I mean, builds of 3.4 were available for many months before it was officially released.
It's up to the plugin developers to test things and update them as necessary, since clearly there is no way the Eclipse folks themselves can possibly test every combination of platform, JRE, and plugin set. Many times the issue is even a conflict between plugins.
The same thing happens to Microsoft. Sure they've done some stupid things and written crappy code in their time, but a huge number of Windows issues are actually driver bugs, or conflicts between a particular set of drivers running together. But if something crashes, people instantly point the finger at Microsoft even though chances are good that they actually had nothing to do with it.
Comment 13 written by Raymond Camden on 5 September 2008, at 12:43 PM
Also - while I'm complaining - I find 3.4's way to install stuff a bit confusing. You add the site, and you look for Next, Finish, whatever, but you have to hit Install instead. More than once now I've accidentally forgotten to install something I thought I had installed.
Comment 14 written by Anthony Hixon, Jr. on 5 September 2008, at 1:30 PM
In fact, even though the Flex 3.0.1 plug-in is supposed to be compatible, it never would show up as a selectable perspective and I spent more than half a day scouring the Internet trying this and that with no luck.
As far as CFEclipse, I think it even states on their download page that they compatibility issues with 3.4.
Comment 15 written by Jeremy Prevost on 5 September 2008, at 3:30 PM
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
Comment 16 written by Mark Phippard on 5 September 2008, at 4:27 PM
http://desktop-eclipse.open.collab.net/wiki/JavaHL...
You need the Subclipse JavaHL Adapter AND the native code bits.
Comment 17 written by marc esher on 5 September 2008, at 5:30 PM
Comment 18 written by Lola LB on 6 September 2008, at 7:26 AM
Comment 19 written by Dana K on 6 September 2008, at 4:46 PM
Comment 20 written by maliboo on 8 September 2008, at 3:56 AM
Comment 21 written by Kevin Benore on 8 September 2008, at 9:46 AM
Comment 22 written by Sean Corfield on 8 September 2008, at 5:12 PM
Comment 23 written by Jeremy Peterson on 9 September 2008, at 11:19 AM
Thanks,
Jeremy
Comment 24 written by Alan on 27 September 2008, at 5:50 PM
Comment 25 written by reset on 14 October 2008, at 4:02 AM
Existing Subclipse users should read the upgrade instructions for important information on changes you to need to make to your Eclipse preferences to see the new version in the update manager.
http://subclipse.tigris.org/upgrade.html" target="_blank">http://subclipse.tigris.org/upgrade.html
The recommended procedure to upgrade Subclipse to a new 1.x to 1.y release is to follow the first-time install instructions. Enter the update site URL for the new release stream into the Eclipse update manager and this will install the new version on top of your existing installation. This process works more reliably than asking Eclipse to check for updates.
Comment 26 written by a newbie coder on 2 November 2008, at 10:06 AM
Comment 27 written by Matt on 6 November 2008, at 9:28 AM
Comment 28 written by Raymond Camden on 6 November 2008, at 9:29 AM
Comment 29 written by Reuben on 6 November 2008, at 12:48 PM
http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start
Comment 30 written by battisti on 7 January 2009, at 11:20 AM
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