[Scott Anderson]

NOTE: This is an update to the original announcement. On 8/29/2004 we updated all of the full installers for all platforms and the update site to include all quick fixes. If you’re unsure, you can check to see if the fixes have already been applied by navigating to Window > Preferences > MyEclipse. The ID with the quickfixes installed will read 3.8.1+QF20040825. If you need to install the quickfixes manually, please see the instructions below.

Please do *not* attempt to install it on any version of MyEclipse other than 3.8.1. Each quickfix is a cumulative patch, so you can install it one a base 3.8.1 installation or on an installation into which previous quick fixes are applied.

This fix addresses the following problems that have been reported on the forums:
This fix addresses the following problems that have been reported on the forums and internally:

ID Summary
904 Taglib resolution from included files is not working if absolute path from web root
945 Structured editors should be allowed to open content from Jars
958 NPE (non-user affecting) when locating taglibs
960 SQLEditor throws exception when invoked with SQLEditorInput
962 Turning off JSP Validation does not survive workbench restart
965 Internet Tools Preference pages sho %prompt when not started with -clean
966 XML Catalog Preference Page Error when started without -clean
967 Dependent EJB project – referencing java class in JSP
970 Generated Composite key class has invalid equals() impl
971 Update JBoss 3 connector defaults to use “xerces” instead…
975 Allow SQLEditor to open files from “Open External File…”
977 NPE on copy and paste of entire web project
978 XSD Editor Open External or Jar Entry File Error

The QuickFix is located at:
http://www.myeclipseide.com/products/eworkbench/quickfixes/3.8.1-QuickFix-20040825.zip

To install it, exit Eclipse and unzip the quick fix archive directly into <myeclipse-inst-dir>/eclipse/plugins. You should choose to overwrite files, when prompted. Please note, the quickfix contains only the subsets of several plugins that changed, not the complete plugin so please don’t choose an extraction method that overwrites the entire plugin directory. On Windows, simply unzipping with WinZip or using the XP file explorer to copy the folders into the plugins directory will “do the right thing”.

Once the quickfix is installed, start eclipse with -clean command line option to insure installation of the new jars. To verify the installation, open Window > Preferences > MyEclipse and you should see a version of number of: “3.8.1+QF20040825”.

For those with dialup access, we’ve done our best to minimize the distribution size by only providing plugin subsets. The archive file is only 2,492,055 bytes for your downloading convenience.

Thanks!

[Scott Anderson]

This is just a quick reply so this thread will show up as unread again, since the text has been modified to point to a new quickfix.

[Robert Varga]

@support-scott wrote:

This is just a quick reply so this thread will show up as unread again, since the text has been modified to point to a new quickfix.

Hi Scott,

Do you update the zip and the installer versions along the quickfixes and do the installer and the manual install versions on the website contain these quickfixes, or do I have to download and install the quickfix on a version freshly downloaded from the website as well?

Regards,

Robert

[Riyad Kalla]

Grab 3.8.1 + Quickfixes

[Scott Anderson]

Rob,

We only update the zip and installer versions when we release new versions, not for the quick fixes. The thing addressed in the quick fixes typically affect only a small subset of our user base, however for that subset a break is critical. So, we came up with the quickfix idea to allow us to rapidly resolve issues much faster than we can push an entire build. The reason we don’t update the installers is the level of QA that this would entail since an error in production could possibly break *all* new downloads. So, like Riyad said you just need a 3.8.1 installation plus the latest quickfix.

[jrogers]

I installed the quick fix, but do not see the version “3.8.1+QF20040824” as stated in this thread. Did something go wrong with the install?

[Riyad Kalla]

No you should be fine, I have them all installed and still see the original 3.8.1. Build ID

[Scott Anderson]

Actually,

That’s true for he verion number on the features and plugins themselves — they will still show 3.8.1. However, on the Window > Preferences > MyEclipse page you *must* see the quickfix build ID or it is not correctly installed.

[Riyad Kalla]

<looks around confused> yea… yea that’s definately what I meant, what he said.

*reinstalls ME*

[Randy Burgess]

After installing this quickfix and then restarting with the -clean option my J2EE 1.4 Library Container is empty. When I remove it and add it back to the project it is still empty, no jars inside. Speaking for myself, I would have preferred that MyEclipseIDE hadn’t rushed out this buggy version of the enterprise workbench.

RB

[Randy Burgess]

I found the problem, the .classpath file was pointing to the incorrect plugin directory of the MyEclipse installation. This is what I changed it to:
<classpathentry kind=”con” path=”com.genuitec.eclipse.j2eedt.core_3.8.1.J2EE14_CONTAINER”/>
and this is what it was set to:
<classpathentry kind=”con” path=”com.genuitec.eclipse.j2eedt.core.J2EE14_CONTAINER”/>

I did not change it and it was set correctly before installing the latest quickfix.
🙁

[Riyad Kalla]

RB did you install the QF correctly by using -clean? The entire team and our QA team all test/install/retest the QF’s before deploying them and none of us have run into this problem (I just double checked it).

I don’t know what would have caused the .classpath issue to occur though, I will keep my ear to the ground and see if I run into anything though.

[Randy Burgess]

Yep I ran it with the -clean command line after installing it. I still ran into problems even after changing the classpath so I did a fresh install of 3.8.1 into a fresh unzip of Eclipse 3.0 SDK. I also had additional options on the command line that may have caused the problem, -vmargs -Xmx256m. Should it be run with the -clean option every time after installing or just on the first startup after installing the quickfix? Thanks!

PS. I had saved my Preferences in Eclipse earlier so it was easy to do the new installation and be back up and running with the same setup prior to the quickfix a few minutes later.

[Riyad Kalla]

Yep I ran it with the -clean command line after installing it.

Strange, it sounds like you did the right thing.

I also had additional options on the command line that may have caused the problem, -vmargs -Xmx256m.

Actually these are quite common and actually recommended for good performance, that shouldn’t have given you any trouble.

Should it be run with the -clean option every time after installing or just on the first startup after installing the quickfix?

Just the first time, it tells Eclipse to trash its config cache and recreate it… you technically *can* leave this on your command line all the time, it just effects startup time by a second or two but gives you the ‘cleanest’ startup possible… but I don’t think that necessary.

PS. I had saved my Preferences in Eclipse earlier so it was easy to do the new installation and be back up and running with the same setup prior to the quickfix a few minutes later.

That’s a very good idea, there are SO many preferences now, setting them up each time is really a daunting task 😉

[fkorling]

After install the quick fix, the sql explorer perspective
stopped working.

The name of the sql explorer perspective has become

%perspectiveName

in the perspective selector and
the perspective can’t be opened.

In the MyEclipse preferences, the sql explorer page can’t be viewed
‘cos it’s are named

%preferencePage

. Other MyEclipse preferences
are working fine.

I did a eclipse -clean after unzipping the quick fix and the installation
seems to have worked fine.

/Filip

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