I want to install additional software for Eclipse (I use 3.5 because 3.6 is not yet for Scala and Android).
Problem is:
The downloads / installations are INSANELY slow, I didn't get past 5% on the ADT plugin (for example) in one hour - same for everything else I tried
Firefox (no other software so far, IE works fine, etc...) is slowed down when it comes to Internet connectivity as long as "install new software" is running
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit here on a quadcore machine with 4 GB of RAM and an 8 MBit / sec DSL.
Is this a known issue, are there any fixes or will I have to stop considering developing for Android phones?
And yes, I disabled everything - firewall, Skype, etc...
Nothing helped.
JDK installed is 6u21, latest release (installed it today).
Try to uncheck the option 'Contact all update sites during install to find required software' when installing ADT. But you must install all plug-ins required by ADT firstly, such as GEF.
That 6u21 may be your problem, depending on how recently you downloaded it (and, if from a mirror, how up to date the mirror is). They changed "Sun Microsystems, Inc" to "Oracle", and Eclipse was relying on that string for resolution of a bug:
http://m.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oracle-rebrands-java-breaks-eclipse/2012
From the article: "If you downloaded Java for Windows 32-bit or 64-bit recently, be sure you have the 1.6.0_21-b07 version and not b06."
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I have had the same problem with both Oxygen and Photon latest releases on Ubuntu 18.04LTS with java version "1.8.0_151".
I am debugging a Swing application. After reaching an enabled break-point, the entire Ubuntu GUI "hangs". Mouse clicks on an icon which start other applications and the eclipse window are totally ignored. The only recovery is to reboot the computer.
The strange thing is this appears "intermittently". It will work fine for long periods of time and the other times it occurs. It is in one of the "it always occurs" times.
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I don't recall experiencing this with non-GUI applications.
Any thoughts on how to fix/workaround this?
TIA,
Roy
I was also facing the same issue. I would suggest to check your OS, if it is 32 bit downgrading your eclipse to Oxygen package seems to be the only choice available. Else you can upgrade your OS to 64 bit if supported by processor if you wish to carry forward with Photon package of eclipse. Support by eclipse on 32 bit OS is no longer available.
Our agency requires that all Windows software be packaged by a central group. We've been using STS on Windows 7 for quite a while. I can't find any kind of official statement to indicate that it will run on Windows 10. Is STS working for folks running Windows 10 64 bit (HP hardware, if that makes a difference).
Several of us have tried finding information on the STS official site and I have submitted an issue to the STS issue tracker but it is unassigned. It would be helpful if we could point to some practical experience or success with this.
Thanks in advance,
Leila
I received a very helpful comment from Martin Lippert on the STS issue tracker site. He said "The latest version of STS (3.8.3) as well as the upcoming version (3.8.4) are based on Eclipse Neon, which has Windows 10 as a supported target environment defined (https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_6.xml). Therefore you can run STS on Windows 10."
We also tested it on a test computer and it seems to be working fine.
My RCP app running in CentOS 6.7 uses the SWT Browser. It works properly when launching the app from within eclipse, but when I run it as a standalone app, the Browser cannot be instantiated, and a SWT Exception with message "No more handles" is thrown. I prefer to use the browser with style SWT.WEBKIT, but it doesn't work with style SWT.NONE either.
I have the latest versions of packages webkitgtk, webkitgtk-devel, and gtk2 installed. I tried using style SWT.NONE and set env variable MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to point to the firefox installation directory, the xulrunner executable, and even the google-chrome installation. I also added $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If I have anything set for MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME the app segfaults when the Browser is instantiated. If I don't set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME I get the SWT exception.
The SWT documentation says that if I have webkitgtk installed, eclipse will detect it automatically. But it also says that with eclipse 4.2 and later it works with gtk3 by default. I don't see any gtk3 packages.
I'm using Eclipse SDK 4.4.2 in my target, but my app is an Eclipse 3 app. So perhaps this is an error in the compatibility layer. I can try using an Eclipse 3.x SDK, but I'd rather not do that. The SWT plugin being installed is version 3.102.xxx.
As I said, the app works when launched inside eclipse, so am I perhaps missing a plugin in my built product? I see the swt.gtk plugins installed, but I don't know what else to look for. Also the standalone app works properly in Ubuntu.
The following entries in eclipse.ini enable the Browser control to work in CentOS 6.7 with style SWT.NONE
-vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/path/to/xulrunner/
This also requires that a supported version of xulrunner be installed (1.9.2 worked for me), as precisely specified in the SWT FAQ. NB: The following caveat is stated in the FAQ regarding the possible use of firefox as a xulrunner instance:
Also note that a Firefox release whose contained Gecko version
correlates with the Mozilla versions above can also be used with
Eclipse 3.1 and newer (Linux only), provided that it has been compiled
with linkable Gecko libraries. It is important to note that Firefox
downloads from mozilla.org do not satisfy this criteria, but Firefox
installations that are included in major Linux distributions often do
in the absence of a XULRunner installation. Attempting to use a
Firefox install without linkable Gecko libraries will throw an error
with message "No more handles [NS_InitEmbedding...error -2147221164]".
The firefox installed on my CentOS 6.7 system doesn't seem to have the linked gecko libraries, but I may have manually installed a differerent version at some point.
There appears to be no way to use Eclipse 4.4 or newer with webkit on CentOS 6.7, since gtk3 is required per the FAQ, and the only reference I found to installing gtk3 on CentOS 6.x said that it would be very difficult.
The FAQ is confusing to me on a couple points. It seems to contradict itself, saying that a compliant xulrunner can be used with eclipse 4.4 and then saying that it cannot, because eclipse 4.4 "uses GTK 3 by default" and xulrunner has not been ported to gtk3. My SWT installation appears to be built for gtk3, but it did not prevent me from using xulrunner. Furthermore, saying that gtk3 is used by default seems to imply that it's possible to use some other version of gtk, but hours of searching turned up no information on that.
If anyone knows how to make eclipse 4.4 work with gtk2, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm not happy at all about being forced to use gecko for eclipse 4.4 apps running in CentOS 6.x.
EDIT: It occurs to me that a big unanswered question is why the Browser doesn't throw the exception with style SWT.WEBKIT and no XulRunnerPath property set when I launch the app from within eclipse. I'd really like to understand that.
I'm trying to run Eclipse 4.2 (latest from website: eclipse-SDK-4.2-macosx-cocoa-x86_64) on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
I have Java 7 installed, but I keep getting prompted to install Java 6. When I choose to forgo the install by clicking "Not Now", Eclipse exits.
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_05-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.1-b03, mixed mode)
$ whereis java
/usr/bin/java
Any ideas on how to get Eclipse to work with the latest version of Java? README is lacking any useful information (and even claims Eclipse was tested with Java 7 on some platforms).
UPDATE:
Running sudo /Applications/.Eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse works fine. After running under sudo and then switching back to lowly me with /Applications/.Eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse results in a lock file error (permission denied).
It appears I have two problems:
Running through icon click results in "Need Java 6"
Running from command line results in "Permission Denied"
UPDATE: It appears to be more junk from Cupertino:
Apple Radar: 12082976
Here's the text that Apple wants to hide from the world:
I purchased a new Mac Book Pro. I immediately upgraded to Mountain Lion. I installed Java 7 from Sun [Oracle]:
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_05-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.1-b03, mixed mode)
$ whereis java
/usr/bin/java
$ /usr/libexec/java_home
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home
When I attempt to run the Java Preferences (in /Applications/Utilities) and Eclipse, I get prompted to install Java (see attachment).
This outdated article was no help (adding environment.plist): https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Articles/EnvironmentVars.html. I thought the problem might be $JAVA_HOME was not set, but I was wrong.
I think I got more useful information from Stack Overflow rather than the vendor (Apple), but its still not solved. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/58203/mountain-lion-with-java-7-only and https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57986/multiple-java-versions-support-on-os-x-and-java-home-location.
Please fix this. I spends thousands on Apple hardware and hundreds on Apple software, and this sort of thing is not acceptable. I have personally wasted hours on this issue, as have others. How can the Apple QA department miss another gapping hole?
From here.
JDK 7 will be installed under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk, JDK 6 under /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines.
To trick OS X to accept Java 7 instead of proposing to install Java 6 a simple symlink is enough:
sudo mkdir /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
sudo su ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk
Most Java Programms will run with this little hack without the need to install Java 6.
Note that the OP in the above question specifically talks about Eclipse not working with Java 7.
Also this might be worthwhile read.
I'm rather embarrassed but one of my students helped me solve this issue.
If you have Java 7 installed then you should be using the 64 bit version of Eclipse. I had downloaded the 32 bit version and it was asking me to install Java 6 when I had version 7 installed. Downloaded the 64bit version and it works like a dream. I run Mac os 10.8
Installing this update from apple fixed it for me:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
Note that's the update that's trying to install automatically.
Can you imagine that? You have to install a JDK 1.6 to get eclipse ran properly, even if you already have jdk 1.7 installed, and set the JAVA_HOME properly.
To resolve your issue, you just need to download the jdk1.6 from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US, and install it, later you will be able to run eclipse, and you can set the JAVA_HOME to JDK1.7, and you will be able to find the JDK1.7 from eclipse "Preferences".
The MAC OS offers the Java Preferences tool under Applications.
If you don't have this tool you can edit the eclipse.ini and manually specify the JVM that you want to use.
Of course remember that Java 7 is the only Java official release for MAC and is probably not the best for developing applications. I would go for the 1.6 release but you are forced with this one due to OS restrictions if you want to stick with the standard.
I'm trying to install the latest v5.0.0 "beta 2" BlackBerry OS Component Pack into Eclipse 3.4.2 with BlackBerry Eclipse plugin v1.0.0.67, but have hit a few problems. Has anybody found an easy way to do this?
I had no trouble installing the v4.5.0 and v4.7.0 Component Packs.
It's rather strange that BlackBerry are shipping new phones with the v5.0.0 OS installed (e.g. a Storm 2 9550 and Bold 9700 that I just bought), and pushing that update to phones whilst the BlackBerry website still considers the v5.0.0 SDK / Component Packs to be "beta 2"! If anybody knows when an official non-beta Component Pack is going to be released that might solve my problem...
In case it helps, the problems I've hit so far are:
-Contrary to the implication on the BlackBerry website, the Eclipse "Software Update..." option for the v5.0.0 Component Pack claims it only works on the v1.0.0 Eclipse BlackBerry plugin, not the new v1.1 one.
-I then tried to install the v5.0.0 Component Pack through the "Software Updates..." menu in Eclipse using the v1.0.0 Eclipse BlackBery plugin. Once I'd done the 200MB download the install failed with a "Invalid zip file format" error.
-I might just have been unlucky with a corrupted download but I did try it twice, once through "Software Updates..." and once by selecting "Archive" to install the downloaded Component Pack (which unlike v4.5.0 and v4.7.0 was a JAR, not a ZIP).
Using Eclipse 3.5.1 and the 1.1 component pack, I had no trouble installing the 5.0 JDE from the 1.1 component pack update site from within Eclipse - ie: using the update site http://www.blackberry.com/go/eclipseUpdate/3.5/java ...
It could be possible that Blackberry has fixed whatever problem you encountered in their latest beta, or the latest version of Eclipse just works better...but at any rate, I hope you've gotten your setup working, but if not, perhaps trying again with the latest versions will fix things!
They (rim support) did experience some issue with the zip they have on the site for you to install.
See this thread
If you see Unconnected sockets not implemented just before your Invalid zip file format, like:
osgi.bundle,net.rim.eide.doc,1.0.0.67.
Exception connecting to
https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/auth/contactFormPreload.do?code=DC727151E5D55DDE1E950767CF861CA5&dl=A7B283681EA93067610F5EE0EEB46A29.
Unconnected sockets not implemented Exception connecting to
https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/auth/contactFormPreload.do?code=DC727151E5D55DDE1E950767CF861CA5&dl=A7B283681EA93067610F5EE0EEB46A29.
Unconnected sockets not implemented
Error closing the output stream for
net.rim.eide.feature.componentpack4.3.0/org.eclipse.update.feature/4.3.0.16
on repository file:/C:/eclipse/. Error unzipping
C:\DOCUME~1\tysonl\LOCALS~1\Temp\net.rim.eide.feature.componentpack4.3.0_4.3.0.169073623197643742544.jar:
Invalid zip file format Error closing the output stream for
net.rim.eide.feature.componentpack4.5.0/org.eclipse.update.feature/4.5.0.16
, the support mentions:
The "Unconnected sockets not implemented" is caused by a bug in current versions of JDK 1.6.
You can work around this by downgrading to JDK 1.5 (modify your PATH and JAVA_HOME variables) to install the plug-ins. You may need to delete the files in your windows temp folder as well (Eclipse could have cached bad copies of the file).
This should be fixed in JDK 1.6 update 14.
(so what version of java are you using?)
As mentioned in the same thread:
The following is from the "blackberry plugin for eclipse" download page:
It is recommended that users outside of North American or users who have experienced problems with the BlackBerry update site use the links below to manually download and install the components.
Yep, I've read that bit. That's essentially what I tried to do. What that doesn't say is you need to remove the update site from your site list before trying to install the manual downloads via the archive function.
Helpful to me:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Invalid-zip-file-format-trying-to-add-4-7-0-components-to/td-p/411105;jsessionid=32490C8741FEE961B9436E453DFF7430