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1. Re: upgrade from Eclipse 3.1M5 / IDE M1 to Eclipse 3.1 / IDE
mikek753 Jul 20, 2005 12:22 PM (in response to mikek753)can I just copy Eclipse 3.1 over M5?
and then copy on top of it JBoss-IDE M2 (ALL)?
thanks. -
2. Re: upgrade from Eclipse 3.1M5 / IDE M1 to Eclipse 3.1 / IDE
peterj Jul 20, 2005 12:35 PM (in response to mikek753)Do not copy newer versions of Eclipse over older versions, you could end up with older (unreplaced) jar files present that could cause problems. Always install Eclipse in a new directory, and add your plug-ins into that directory.
You can then open your old workspace with the new Eclipse version and it should upgrade the settings/projects. Or, start a new workspace and move your settings and projects over to it. (I always do the later since I usually down't want all of my old projects, or maybe its because I also perfer clean installs when upgrading Windows :-)). -
3. Re: upgrade from Eclipse 3.1M5 / IDE M1 to Eclipse 3.1 / IDE
mikek753 Jul 20, 2005 12:49 PM (in response to mikek753)thanks a lot for reply.
then the steps are:
1. rename eclipse folder to eclipse.old - just in case
2. unpack new Eclipse to eclipse folder - that way you don't need to change short-cut and -vmargs for Eclipse ;-)
3. unpack JBoss-IDE M2 (ALL) to that eclipse folder
4. run Eclipse and point to the workspace
5. install "your" plug-in(s) from Help/ ... instal new plug-in by pointering to new remote site.
Please, correct me where it is needed.
p.s. hope that saves time to other JBoss-IDE users -
4. Re: upgrade from Eclipse 3.1M5 / IDE M1 to Eclipse 3.1 / IDE
mazz Jul 20, 2005 12:54 PM (in response to mikek753)See my wiki on how to setup eclipse for easy upgrades and multiple source trees:
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SetUpEclipseForMultipleSourceTrees
I've been doing it that way for a while now and haven't had any problems switching between eclipse versions and workspaces. -
5. Re: upgrade from Eclipse 3.1M5 / IDE M1 to Eclipse 3.1 / IDE
peterj Jul 20, 2005 1:01 PM (in response to mikek753)By the way, you can rename the eclipse directory to anything you want. I append the version number, for example I have direcotries eclipse.302, eclipse.31m5 and eclipse.31. I can then use any version of eclipse. By the way, you have to do this before the first time you run eclipse -- once you run it you cannot change the directory name (well you can, but it won't run, or won't run correctly, its been a while since it did that, so I'm not sure exactly what goes wrong).