Eclipse 4.5: Making it ready for plugin development

Hi,
I just installed Mars, Eclipse 4.5 for Java Developers.
I started a plugin development tutorial, where the the read is told to go this path to start a new plugin project:
File → New → Project... → Plug-in Development → Plug-in Project.
I don't have that path.
How can I find and install of the components I need for plugin development?
Thanks
Steve

From the menu select Help > Install New Software...
In the Available Software dialog, select the Mars update site (it's URL is http: //download.eclipse.org/releases/mars), then in the list below find "Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment" under the "General Purpose Tools" section. Select that and then you can proceed to Finish the Install dialog.

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Firefox beta 35 not ready for prime time.

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108196
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I am trying to create a Proof of Concept (POC) for Enterprise and B2B Services at Wendy's Int'l, Inc.
As part of this POC, I created a WSDL for an in-house service and then used the wsdlc and jwsc Ant Tasks to translate this WSDL to Java classes and ultimately (I hoped) a deployable services.
In this document, I describe the issues I encountered setting up what I consider to be a simple POC.
I'll try to attach my WSDL file and build.xml so you can follow along.
I'll also try to attach my CSS file so you can compare how the generated WSDL appears in the Browser to the way I want it to appear.
If attachments are not allowed on these forums, then I will wait and see if there is interest in those documents before I paste them under this topic.
Some preliminary information about my environment.
Environment:
 Windows XP Pro SP2
 WebLogic 9.1
 Java 1.5.0_04
Service Name:
 AppRelease
Note: If I modify my WSDL (perhaps to add a new Operation or to change the definition of an element) and run wsdlc again, the AppReleaseSOAPPortImpl.java file is overwritten For this reason, I implemented my service logic in a class called AppReleaseServiceImple.java.
Now, for the issues.
1. Bug:
In the WSDL generated by wsdlc, the wsdl:part child of the wsdl:message tag is erroneously prefixed with a colon.
This occurs whether or not I specify a prefix for the http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ namespace.
Work around: Extract the wsdl from the jar file, fix it and add it back into the jar.
2. Bug:
In the WSDL generated by wsdlc, the wsdl:input and wsdl:output children of the wsdl:operation child of wsdl:portType tag are erroneously prefixed with a colon. Like 1 above, this occurs whether or not I specify a prefix for the http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ namespace.
Work around: Extract the wsdl from the jar file, fix it and add it back into the jar.
The error message generated by Bugs 1 and 2 is not helpful in diagnosing the problem:
[jwsc] Error at line:46 col:7 ':' expected [?! -- [CDATA[ ]
3. Bug:
In the WSDL generated by wsdlc, the documentation elements have all of my html elements stripped out, as well as my xhtml and wsdl namespace references. This completely negates one of the best features of the documentation tag, being able to present the WSDL in a browser as a nicely formatted, human friendly document which is also the underlying WSDL that can be viewed when the person views the source document.
I label this as a bug because it greatly reduces the functionality of the resulting WSDL.
4. Annoyance:
The WSDL generated by wsdlc has all of my comments stripped out, except the comments in the xsd:schema section of the wsdl:types element. I would prefer that all my comments be left in the WSDL, but if comments must be stripped out then I think all of the comments should be stripped out.
5. Annoyance:
The WSDL generated by wsdlc has my CSS specification stripped.
Work around: I donâ€™t know if adding the CSS back will do any good because I have not yet created a deployable service (see the last issue below).
6. Annoyance:
The WSDL generated by wsdlc has different namespace prefixes than the ones I specified for my application's namespace and for the http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ namespace.
Work around: Perform a find/replace on namespace prefixes "s0" and "s1" to return them to my prefered values.
Another thing I can do at this point is simply replace the generated WSDL in the jar file with my original WSDL. This would address issues 1 thru 6 above.
7. Annoyance:
The java source files created by wsdlc are put into a jar file. This makes it annoying when working within a traditional IDE like Eclipse because there is no way to reference the source files within the jar as working source.
Work around: Extract the source files from the jar and identify the resulting directory structure as part of the source structure of the project.
8. Bug:
The jwsc task complains if the same parameter name is used in multiple operations. I received the following Errors from jwsc:
[jwsc] C:\IDE\workspace\Acre-WL9.1\AppReleaseSOAPPort.java 0:0
[jwsc] [ERROR] - Parameter element "{http://acre.services.wendys.com/AppRelease/}garRequest" is not unique across document/literal bare WebService.
Since the operation names are unique, I see no reason to also require uniqueness in the parameter names used by those operations.
Work around: Use unique element names for the input parameters of the services operations.
9. Bug:
Once items 1, 2 and 8 above are taken care of, jwsc fails with the following error:
java.lang.AssertionError: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: weblogic.j2ee.descriptor.ApplicationBeanImpl
This seems to be due to the weblogic.jar file not being in the System Classpath.
However, I should note that when I set verbose="on" and debug="on" in the jwsc ant task, there was a message from the task which stated "[jwsc] [search path for class files: [big freakinâ€™ jar list]". In the big freakinâ€™ jar list, I did find weblogic.jar and weblogic.jar has the required ApplicationBeanImpl. This indicates to me that the jwsc task does not fully honor either its classpathref attribute, nor an embedded classpath element.
Work around: Make sure the weblogic.jar is in the System Classpath.
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ant build-serviceBuildfile: build.xml
build-service:
[jwsc] 1 JWS files will be processed.
[jwsc] Processing JWS: C:\IDE\workspace\Acre-WL9.1\src\com\wendys\services\acre\AppReleaseServiceImpl.java
[jwsc] JWS: C:\IDE\workspace\Acre-WL9.1\src\com\wendys\services\acre\AppReleaseServiceImpl.java Validated.
[AntUtil.deleteDir] Deleting directory <some temporary directory>
BUILD FAILED
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
At this point, I am completely stymied about how to proceed.
I wonder what new issues await once this 10th issue is addressed.
Really, is this tool set ready for prime time?

Sorry to hear you are having so many issues with using the WLS 9.1 web service Ant tasks, inside of Eclipse.
I generally create a User Library for the couple weblogic jars needed, and use it (the User Library) in my Eclipse projects that I create JWSes in. 
I also have a separate WebLogic Library in Eclipse (actually 2 libraries since I work with WL 8.1 and now WL 9.1). As you may know, one of the long-standing issues with the Ant integration within Eclipse is the fact that Ant, being an External Tool, does not receive the Project-specific Paths/Libraries. However, since most Java-relevant Ant tasks can take classpath and classpathref attributes, this is usually not an issue. In the case of the BEA-supplied wsdlc Ant task, it is apparent from the verbose/debug console output that wsdlc can see the jars in its classpathref, but it ignores those references when resolving class references and instead only uses the system classpath.

I've only needed the weblogic.jar and xbean.jar, not all the ones you mentioned in an earlier thread of this post. 
I have not tried to winnow down exactly which jars are required. I simply included all the jars that exist and were added to the system classpath by the setDomainEnv.bat file created by WebLogic 9.1.

Afterwards, I create an Ant Builder to build the JWS Web Service EAR, as opposed to fiddlin' with Eclipse. 
I too use Ant to build my deployable archives. Eclipse is simply my IDE of choice. I validated that all the issues I listed occurred when running Ant from the command line.

If you are interested in how I do it, send me an e-mail (to [email protected]), and I'll send you a zip of one of these JWS projects. The build.xml script for the project, takes care of a lot of the "annoyances" you mentioned, one of which I think is not accurate. I have never had a situation where the wsdlc Ant task "overwrote" my XXXImpl.java file.. 
Since I'm doing a POC to determine how we want to proceed with developing Web Services and an SOA in general, I tried to perform the same tasks using Axis 2 1.0, the WebLogic 9.1 tools, and XFire 1.1. Overwriting the Impl class is a common failing in the tools which take a WSDL and create Java source files for all three frameworks.

Try my scenario. Add another operation to an existing WSDL, and run the wsdlc Ant Task. The old IMPL class will be over-written.

Because of this, I have a separate Impl class and I make sure that all its methods and annotations match the methods and annotations in the Skeleton Impl class created by wsdlc.

Maybe that's because I use the <exec> Ant task with jar.exe (the xvf options) in my build.xml, to only get what I need out of the .jar/.zip the wsdlc generates. I'm typically only interest in the interface class that my XXXImpl.java file needs to implements, because I use XMLBeans for the input args (and return values) of my web service operations. 
Perhaps. I am not using XMLBeans in any of the three frameworks because the resulting service seems to be lighter-weight in all three frameworks if XMLBeans is not used. I'm sure there will be scenarios where XMLBeans is preferred, but I have not encountered that case in this POC.

Regards,
Mike Wooten
Thanks for the follow-up.
Mike McAngus

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Can I create a copy-protected DVD with a Video_TS folder ready for replication?
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I am being told by my replicator that in the past, they have received discs from clients that are copy protected and ready for replication. Is this possible? Can I burn these type of discs with DVD Studio Pro and a built in burner?
I would think that this would be the DDP image with the CSS keys included. I dont believe there is any way to output a playable DVD that has CSS to a DVD-R on any authoring system. Even if there was you cannot premaster a DVD-Video with CSS at any replication facility.
-Luke
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Help- how do I make images ready for web gallery??

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InputManagers/SIMBL
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Log out and log back in.
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NetBeans or Eclipse: Which is better for GUI development ?

I am relatively new with JAVA, came from embedded software domain mostly in C.
My interest is to learn and develop the GUI applications using Swing.
I am currently in a process of evaluating the IDEs, Eclipse and NetBeans on Linux desktop environment (SuSE 10.3).
My primary findings found that, NetBeans is better equipped with GUI development while Eclipse needs to have a plugin installed.
For GUI development, I found that few of my fellow Java developer friends have mixed feelings about these two wonderful IDEs, in summary here are the comments:
1) Developing GUI is better without any assistance from built in designers of IDEs (e.g. NetBeans or Visual Swing of Eclipse). Because, they put extra 'garbage" codes which are very much IDE specific.
2) GUI development in NetBeans is faster and more productive than Eclipse
3) Visual Swing for Eclipse is not a matured product and it is far inferior than NetBeans' capabaility
Now I ask a question, what is the best practice to adopt for starting the GUI development ? NetBeans or Eclispse or IDE-less development ?
Thanks.

atomodachi wrote:
Now I ask a question, what is the best practice to adopt for starting the GUI development ?
NetBeansThis is my preference for IDE's. Please note that as I stated that is my preference. There isn't any best, some are clearly better than others for one reason or another, but once again, that boils down to personal preference.
EclispseNot my preference.
IDE-less development ?IMO: that is just silly. Unless you just enjoy tons of typing; why would you ever embark on doing something without a tool to speed up the process. Now that is not to say that in using your IDE you should start out by just dragging and dropping up a storm and merrily running down the road in ignorance until you hit a rough spot and have things dramatically pointed out that you've really not a clue about what is happening. Use the IDE, but learn how to do the manual processes along with it. That means that sometimes you'll not drag and drop to build your GUI, you'll actually code the entire thing. And you really should learn to do things command-line like compile. Do yourself a really big favor too, learn the debugger. The integrated debuggers is, perhaps, one of the best inventions in productivity tools that has as of yet been invented for developers.
In any case, have fun... choose what you like, it really does come down to personal preference. I've worked in several shops over the years and most have come to the conclusion that if you can get the work done, and have projects that others can use, then to each their own preferences. The discussion rages on for and against each of the systems that you have mention--each have valid arguments--it boils down to what do you want and like.

IPhoto 6 Not ready for primetime

I've had it with iPhoto 6!
The program seems to have been released before it was ready. . . I've had numerous problems that have caused me to lose work and have made my entire system seem unstable (hello spinning beach ball!).
The first problems occurred after a crash while making a calendar (something numerous other users have also experienced). All photos in my library taken over the past year disappeared. Although they were still in the iPhoto pictures folder, nothing could bring them back into the library. I tried rebuilding and everything else suggested on these boards.
I finally had to go to a backup and bring back my iPhoto 5 library. I reimported everything (after verifying the library and permissions) and thought that would cure the problems. But I was wrong.
After working for a two days on a photobook (I wouldn't dare try a calendar again). I opened iPhoto this morning and was prompted to rebuild my thumbnails as they needed to be "upgraded" to the new version. I declined. Afterwards, I had no photos in my library and my new book as well as two created in iPhoto 5 had also disappeared.
Yes, the photos themselves are still present in the Originals and Modified folders in the iPhoto library. I haven't lost them and could just recreate the library (if I trusted the program enough to spend the time doing so).
More importantly, I'm almost sure that I've lost my books (does anyone know where they might be stored or how to recover them?). I quit normally from the program last night after working on the book. Thankfully, I had created a .pdf file of it beforehand, so I can look at it.
Its just too much work to chase after a buggy, buggy, unstable program. I'm going back to iPhoto 5 and would advise others to do so, too -- at least until Apple fixes its mess.
Chris

I've had it with iPhoto 6!
The program seems to have been released before it was
ready. . . I've had numerous problems that have
caused me to lose work and have made my entire system
seem unstable (hello spinning beach ball!).
The first problems occurred after a crash while
making a calendar (something numerous other users
have also experienced). All photos in my library
taken over the past year disappeared. Although they
were still in the iPhoto pictures folder, nothing
could bring them back into the library. I tried
rebuilding and everything else suggested on these
boards.
I finally had to go to a backup and bring back my
iPhoto 5 library. I reimported everything (after
verifying the library and permissions) and thought
that would cure the problems. But I was wrong.
After working for a two days on a photobook (I
wouldn't dare try a calendar again). I opened iPhoto
this morning and was prompted to rebuild my
thumbnails as they needed to be "upgraded" to the new
version. I declined. Afterwards, I had no photos in
my library and my new book as well as two created in
iPhoto 5 had also disappeared.
Yes, the photos themselves are still present in the
Originals and Modified folders in the iPhoto library.
I haven't lost them and could just recreate the
library (if I trusted the program enough to spend the
time doing so).
More importantly, I'm almost sure that I've lost my
books (does anyone know where they might be stored or
how to recover them?). I quit normally from the
program last night after working on the book.
Thankfully, I had created a .pdf file of it
beforehand, so I can look at it.
Its just too much work to chase after a buggy, buggy,
unstable program. I'm going back to iPhoto 5 and
would advise others to do so, too -- at least until
Apple fixes its mess.
Chris
Primetime? IMHO it's not even ready for naptime! How such an immature program ever got out of the crate is beyond me. I installed and ended up with only one photo of about 300 visible. I messed and messed, re-loaded my backup folder and on and on. Had up to quadruplicates...deletede xtras etc.
Then, when I scrolled up, the photos would disappear as I moved the cursor...shutdown and restart resulted in about 50 percent of photos visible. Nothing like making an 8x10 of a grayed-out exclamation point with a title..:~}
I'm gonna return it and wait...iPhoto5 please come back.
rb

Error Message: "Install Step Failed:run postflight script for Plugin" When Flash Player 11.7 instal

Don't See Question/Problem w/Flash Player Installation. Error w/11.7.700.260 Installation had errors (dialogue box) The following install step failed: run postflight script for Plugin.Contact the Software Manufacturer for Assistance. Please Note: I have read all Adobe Links related to installing Flash Player and uninstalling previous version 10.3 for MAC OS 10.5. So I have MAC OS 10.5.8 w/Firefox Browser 16.0.1 and disabled anti-viral software. Uninstalled previous version of Flash Player 10.3. Confirmed uninstallation. Downloaded Flash Player 11.7.700.260 instead of 10.3.183.90 due to Adobe stated information re:replacement of 10.3 versions with 11.7 extended support. Installation of 84% occurs then the Error Message: Installation had errors (dialogue box) The following install step failed: run postflight script for Plugin.Contact the Software Manufacturer for Assistance. Please help to resolve this issue as no flash player is currently on my MAC. Thank you so much.

Hi Mike,
First of all, thank you so much for responding and sorry I forgot to mention my CPU; fortunately I **DO** have the 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor so I could upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Two Questions:
1. Do you know whether Snow Leopard sold by Apple is an upgrade or "clean install?" If it's not a clean install, do you know (off-hand) if there are any upgrade issues? I'm very partiall to a clean install.
2. Why does Adobe state (for updating Flash Player 10.3 when Adobe knows that [most likely] the 10.3 versions run on Mac OS 10.5.x? See statement and link below...
Kindest thoughts - Karolynn_1
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2013/05/extended-support-release-updated-to-flash-playe r-11-7.html
We’re happy to announce that we are updating the version of our extended support release to Flash Player 11.7 on Mac and Windows. Flash Player 11.7 will replace version 10.3 as the extended support version beginning July 9, 2013.
In order to continue receiving security updates, an upgrade to either Flash Player 11.7, or the standard Flash Player 11.8 release is required.
Flash Player 11.7 provides exciting new features, including Actionscript concurrency, webcam support for StageVideo and more. It also enables Protected Mode for FireFox on Windows, a sophisticated security-in-depth feature. With Protected Mode, Flash Player runs as restricted process, making it more difficult for attackers to build working exploits. Click here to learn more.
Flash Player 11.7 leverages hardware acceleration for audio, video and rendering to increase performance and lower CPU usage.
To ensure the smoothest possible transition, we encourage IT organizations deploying Flash Player 11.7 in managed environments to thoroughly test audio and video playback for critical use-cases using the latest available version before deploying this release widely. When hardware-related playback and stability problems do arise, updating to the latest hardware drivers frequently resolves these issues.As a secondary workaround, the Flash Player Administrator’s Guide details mechanisms for disabling hardware and audio acceleration via mms.cfg.
We have been hard at work to make Flash Player better than ever, and we look forward to continuing to serve you with a great web experience.

Making photo montage for my wedding

Hey everyone
I am a new MAC user and just bought Final Cut Express. I was reading through the forums and I notice a lot of people are complaining about the quality of their DVD of photos once it's exported. Is there a setting or something I should do to my photos (.jpegs) before I start my slideshow? (Don't have money for photoshop) hope there are little things I can do in the actual program to make sure the photos don't look distorted.
I bought Final Cut Express instead of using Imovie because I'm use to editing with a time line so I thought this would be easier. I plan on learning how to do fancy things as I get use to the program, but my other main concern is how can I zoom in and out of photos, is there a simple button or option I can use?
So I guess that's it for now, just looking for a little help before I dive into this simple yet complex project!
All ideas/helps/thoughts/advice is welcomed
Thanks

What I suggested is not a separate application but a plugin for FCE: you have to download it and drag it into the plugin folder for FCE (the exact location is again in the referred web page). When you open FCE, you find it among the other plugins and effects already available for FCE, ready for use.
This would solve your issue, or at least help quite a bit in zooming in and out photos.
The main point however is that learning FCE takes quite longer than iMovie. So you must take into account that creating your first project, even if short and simple, will take you a while (weeks of hard job) and some good tutorial, for example the very good Tom's Final Cut Express 4 - Editing Workshop. While learning you'll appreciate how powerful and flexible FCE is.
A suggestion for your photos: if you don't have Photoshop I suggest to use iPhoto and export your photos using the File/Export: File Export tab, and select Kind: JPEG or TIFF, and Size: Large or Medium. The purpose is to make the photo size about the double of your FCE movie frame size. For example make the photos 1280x964 (or alike) to fit into a 720x480 NTSC movie: this will make panning an zooming of better quality. If you leave them full size FCE will still work but will require a lot of RAM, so it might needlessly slow down or require changing some configuration options (Memory Cache).
Finally a slideshow on a TV from a video DVD will always have lower quality than a full resolution slideshow on a good iMac monitor... That's not an FCE problem but a format problem. Still if you fix your settings carefully in my opinion you may get good results also on a standard video DVD.
Piero

Leopard and CS3 - Are they ready for prime time?

Trying to revive this thread, I manage 130 Macs at an art school and I am starting to research what I am going to do this summer as far as OS and CS versions. Currently we are on 10.4.9 and CS2 and about 15% of our Macs are Intels. I am concerned as I am not hearing good things about Leopard and I am wondering if CS3 is ready for prime time. I should note that stability is my first priority NOT the latest OS and App versions. So the question is are they ready for prime time or should I stay with CS2 and Tiger or should I go CS3 and Tiger.

Summer is a long way off, so hard to guess. I would say that if they don't have the kinks out by then, they probably never will, but still a gamble at this point IMO. I have one of the new Mac Pros (early 2008) w/CS3 Apps installed. I have been using all the below listed apps for the past two weeks without any major problems so far, but I also know that I may be living on the edge right now. I don't feel confident enough to switch to Leopard on my other two computers yet. My restarts on the new machine take about 30-seconds between selecting Restart and ready to start work again (vs about 1.5-2 minutes on my Dual G5). Apps like Photoshop CS3 launch in about 1/3 the time. But all of this speed means absolutely nothing when you slam into an incompatibility - that is the real time trap - I spent the last 8 hours doing nothing but tracking down a Permissions problem in Leopard that none of the utilities will currently fix.
These appear to be working for me so far...
Photoshop CS3
Illustrator CS3
InDesign CS3
Flash CS3
Dreamweaver CS3
Bridge CS3
Lightroom
After Effects CS3
Contribute CS3
What doesn't work yet...
Acrobat Pro & Acrobat Reader (fix was expected from Adobe last month)
Other issues encountered so far...
Most Photoshop and After Effects Plugins required paid upgrades to function in Leopard/CS3 (over $1500 for me the past week)
Monitor calibrator software (such as Artisan) dead with no fixes, but to buy all new hardware calibrators/software - again! - another $1000 bucks
I purchased the Silverfast Leopard upgrade ($105) to get the Epson 4870 scanner plugin to work with Photoshop CS3, but having problems - I think it is a Leopard problem
Adobe UPDATES menu item is dimmed out in all CS3 apps.
Having lots of Leopard User Permissions problems - hopefully 10.5.2 will help?

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