What is happening to JBoss IDE 2.0 ???

[ric1607]

Hello,

After a promising and exciting start, JBoss IDE 2.0 appears totally stalled {:-(
For more than a month nothing has changed in JIRA and initial schedules are far behind...

Is there some technical difficulties (maybe we can help?) or is there a strategic choice made by Redhat/JBoss? Should we skip the promises and base our dev efforts on a pure Eclipse+WTP?

Thanks for any hints on JBoss IDE 2.0 future !

--Eric

[rob.stryker]

A new packaging utility is being made and it will be in the next release. We don't want to release a new beta without this packaging project done, however, the author of it has other responsibilities as well that eat into his time.

Once that is done, I'm working to integrate with that packaging utility a bit, and then we can release. ETA right now is undeclared.

[ric1607]

Thank you for this insight, Rob!

Good luck with the new packaging utility, I'm sure it will be fantastic.

--Eric

[ekusnitz]

Can you give us an idea of when this will be ready? I haven't been able to get the 2.0 beta to work on Windows and I am waiting for the next release to try again.

[pwilt]

ekusnitz:

Are you using a Java 1.4 JVM to try to start up your Eclipse. We found that the Windows version required that we specify a Java 1.5 JVM at the start:

C:\apps\eclipse-3.2-clean\eclipse.exe -showlocation -vm c:\apps\java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin\javaw -vmargs -Xmx512M

Using 1.5 allowed us to launch the JBoss server correctly from within Eclipse where 1.4 would die with strange error messages.

[ekusnitz]

Thanks for your reply, but no, I am using 1.5.0_10

[flindet]

I know this isn't a huge help, but I thought I'd mention that I do run JBoss 2.0 Beta 2 with Eclipse under Windows with 1.5.0_10. I just thought it may help slightly to know that it CAN be done.

As far as I recall, I didn't do anything interesting to make it run. I just downloaded the bundle and it worked.

[ekusnitz]

For those who successfully run it under Windows, how much memory do you have installed? Thanks

[ric1607]

1 GB memory. Works for me too, nothing special to do.

May be there is nothing to do with it, but I'm running the JDK, not the JRE (1.5.09)

[ekusnitz]

Yeah, I'm running the SDK as well. Maybe it has something to do with the Subclipse plug-in. They have a release just for Eclipse 3.2, but it doesn't seem to play well with JBoss IDE.