[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!

[michael_talavera]

Will this quick fix be included in the 3.8.2 version that is currently being worked on? Can I wait for that version to be released and get these fixes in that upgrade as well?

[snpe]

you can upgrade without problems – it isonly 1.4mb

[Scott Anderson]

Michael,

All fixes will be in 3.8.2. We’re releasing the quickfixes so that any of our customers that are affected by one of the issues it contains can get a prompt resolution. However, if you’re not affected by any of them, there’s really no need to install them.

[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.

[Paul Kaiser]

When do you expect 3.8.2 to be available?

[Scott Anderson]

It’s a few weeks out still, most likely. We need to do quite a bit of profiling so we can alleviate some of the resource consumption issues. Once that’s done, we’ll bundle all the fixes into 3.8.2. The quick fixes are just our way of rapidly addressing problems that affect a relatively small part of the user base, but affects them severly so they can continue working the way they want to.

[Joey Geiger]

While I’m not having these issues, I appreciate the quick resolutions.

Thanks.

[sarwar_mansoor]

I have to appluad you guys/gals on the MyEclipse team you all have done a great job in keeping up with fixes and new features that the we requested.

thanks
Sam

[peterwontner]

I completely agree. I have only been using ME for about 1 week, and even though I have had cause to request support, (some down to real bugs but most down to me not RTFM! I wil lget better at that ;), I have been very impressed with both the turn-around and general speed of response from the ME team. I am so pleased I am actively encouraging my development team to ditch JBuilder and move to Eclipse + ME.

[Riyad Kalla]

Hey guys we really appreciate the support and the complimentary words, it helps keep us motivated when we know we are really helping people get their work done effectively. We *never* forget that without our users we are nothing… no matter how good or bad ME is.

We will continue to mush forward with the stabalization and performance enhancements for 3.8.2, some new features in 3.8.3 and then I think we’ll be on track to really get some great additions in 3.9.

[John]

I followed the steps above but the version and build number remain the same 200408201200-3.8.1.
I checked and the files are there including the 3.8.1-QuickFix-20040825-Notes.txt in the plugins directory of my eclipse installation.
I started eclipse two different ways once with the eclipse.exe -clean and once with just eclipse -clean.
Is there something else that should be done to ensure that the version is updated?

[Riyad Kalla]

The quickfixes should have been unzipped to your <myeclipse>\eclipse\plugins directory, not your <eclipse>\plugins directory…

[John]

Thanks that worked. Attention to detail thats what makes MyEclipse support so good.

[Riyad Kalla]

I’m glad it worked, thank you for following up.

Attention to detail thats what makes MyEclipse support so good.

Thanks! I’ll pass the compliment along to the team.

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