[Ashish Maurya]

I downloaded a clean Eclipse 3.1.1. Downloaded the 4.1M1 trial MyEclipse installed for Mac OSX. I placed eclipse under /Applications/eclipse and installed MyEclipse under /Applications/MyEclipse. The install went pretty smooth without any errors but after the install, I couldn’t find a launcher alias in the Dock as I requested. I then went looking for the launcher in the MyEclipse folder and all I found were the following folders and files:

– eclipse
– features
– MyEclipse.ico
– plugins
– MyEclipse-UninstallerData

Nothing in there that looked like a launcher. There was an uninstaller which I then ran and it failed with the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at ZeroGcf.c(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.CreateShortcut.b(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller$UninstallClass.c(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.UninstallProgressAction.h(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.ProgressPanelAction$1.run(DashoA8113)
The uninstallation could not complete due to an error.

I am currently downloading the manual install package and am hoping that it goes better.

Ash

[Riyad Kalla]

There is no launcher specifically for MyEclipse, it is an Eclipse extension, so the way you launch it is to simply start Eclipse back up after installing MyEclipse. You can verify it by going to Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration, from there you should see the MyEclipse dir listed as an extension.

[Ashish Maurya]

I took a look there and did see the MyEclipse extension listed but couldn’t find the MyEclipse perspective. The system console showed a bunch of exceptions. Here is an example:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-11-30 07:23:42.854
!MESSAGE Unexpected exception occurred loading manifest for bundle at the location: update@../MyEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.myeclipse.spring_4.0.100/.
!STACK 0
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Error converting plugin at /Applications/MyEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.myeclipse.spring_4.0.100.
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseBundleData.generateManifest(EclipseBundleData.java:302)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseBundleData.loadManifest(EclipseBundleData.java:257)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.CachedManifest.getManifest(CachedManifest.java:38)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.CachedManifest.get(CachedManifest.java:84)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.isSingleton(EclipseBundleListener.java:126)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.getBundleModel(EclipseBundleListener.java:160)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.addBundle(EclipseBundleListener.java:101)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.bundleChanged(EclipseBundleListener.java:71)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.dispatchEvent(BundleContextImpl.java:1205)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:189)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:141)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.publishBundleEventPrivileged(Framework.java:1468)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.publishBundleEvent(Framework.java:1419)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl.processDelta(PackageAdminImpl.java:414)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl.doResolveBundles(PackageAdminImpl.java:191)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl$1.run(PackageAdminImpl.java:139)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
Caused by: org.eclipse.osgi.service.pluginconversion.PluginConversionException: Could not find a plugin.xml or a fragment.xml in /Applications/MyEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.myeclipse.spring_4.0.100.
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.PluginConverterImpl.fillPluginInfo(PluginConverterImpl.java:93)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.PluginConverterImpl.convertManifest(PluginConverterImpl.java:689)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseBundleData.generateManifest(EclipseBundleData.java:299)
… 16 more
Root exception:
org.eclipse.osgi.service.pluginconversion.PluginConversionException: Could not find a plugin.xml or a fragment.xml in /Applications/MyEclipse/eclipse/plugins/com.genuitec.myeclipse.spring_4.0.100.
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.PluginConverterImpl.fillPluginInfo(PluginConverterImpl.java:93)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.PluginConverterImpl.convertManifest(PluginConverterImpl.java:689)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseBundleData.generateManifest(EclipseBundleData.java:299)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseBundleData.loadManifest(EclipseBundleData.java:257)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.CachedManifest.getManifest(CachedManifest.java:38)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.CachedManifest.get(CachedManifest.java:84)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.isSingleton(EclipseBundleListener.java:126)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.getBundleModel(EclipseBundleListener.java:160)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.addBundle(EclipseBundleListener.java:101)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.EclipseBundleListener.bundleChanged(EclipseBundleListener.java:71)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.dispatchEvent(BundleContextImpl.java:1205)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:189)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:141)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.publishBundleEventPrivileged(Framework.java:1468)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.publishBundleEvent(Framework.java:1419)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl.processDelta(PackageAdminImpl.java:414)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl.doResolveBundles(PackageAdminImpl.java:191)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.PackageAdminImpl$1.run(PackageAdminImpl.java:139)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)

Not sure what went wrong but I suspect the installer because the uninstall failed with an error.

The good news is I was able to get this to work using the manual install procedure and am up now…

Ash

[Riyad Kalla]

Hmm, Ash thank you for the report, we will do some more testing on OS X.

[Greg]

You can try reinstalling with the automated installer into a new eclipse and myeclipse directory (separate from the one that you have working…) and then just use the Eclipse launcher that is in the Eclipse directory. I’m not for sure that the MyEclipse shortcut works for the latest release, as Riyad stated, we will do more testing.

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