[Numain]

Hi, I am just venting here…

I have been using myeclipse for many years now, but the upgrade to 7.0 really strained my nerves. I just lost *another* sunday morning fiddling with myeclipse instead of working on my projects.

Things that each cost me dearly in time and patience:
– Performance: figuring out that I need to disable capabilities to improve performance
– Fighting with the 0 delay hover in the (java code) editor
– Trying to install 3rd party plugins (jadclipse & regex tester) and finding out that this is not supported anymore!!! after another hour I found out how to install jadclipse via the update site that another user (!) provided. no solution yet for regex-tester (since I really don’t want to create my own update site).

Cheers, Numain

P.S. basically the only reason I am using myeclipse (and paying the professional fee) is because of the matisse editor integration.

[Riyad Kalla]

Numain,

Thank you for taking the time to share you comments with us (even though they point out some areas we need to improve in) — let me address each one.

Performance: figuring out that I need to disable capabilities to improve performance

Which capabilities did you disable? We are actually working to address this issue very shortly with a MyEclipse Lite distribution — you can build out the IDE any way you want.

Fighting with the 0 delay hover in the (java code) editor

This was most likely a change in the JDT — we don’t instrument the base Eclipse Java tools in anyway. I imagine there is a hover delay setting in the Preferences under Java > Editor somewhere.

Trying to install 3rd party plugins

Ahh, this is absolutely our fault and is being rectified very shortly with an update to Pulse to provide a major update to how plugins are managed from inside MyEclipse. This release has been in internal QA for about 2 weeks now, tightening and refining the code to make everything much smoother and easier to manage. We are looking at doing a release late this week or early next I believe once the release is tightened down completely.

We are really sorry for the delay with regards to adding 3rd party plugins locally — that was a bad strategic call on our part shipping 7.0 without that.

[aartisharma]

Hi,

I also installed jadclipse using update site ‘http://jadclipse.sf.net/update’ but when I try to open a class file its not getting decompiled. I tried to check file associations for *.class files but couldn’t find a JAD decompiler to link them to. Could someone please provide some pointers for getting this working.

Thanks and Regards,
Aarti

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