Setting up JBoss Tools in Ganymede

[shashank.rudra]

Hello to all

I am using the link on this site http://www.jboss.org/tools/download to set Gaymede Eclipse3.4.2 with Jboss tools 3.0

When I am using the update URL given on this page i.e. http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/ I am getting this error that "no update is available on this site" in the eclipse Software Updates screen. Has any one used this and any idea where the problem is?

Also when you say you want to use Drool5 then do we need to get the jars for that separate or these installations come with the required dependencies?

There are other posts of mine that is related to Galileo set up. But in that I faces too many problem even running a Default Drools project game me -"NO DONUT FOR YOU". So I am trying this out with Ganymede. Any help on this is greatly appreciated folks.

[shashank.rudra]

Also here is a link for setting the same stuff that I am trying above
http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/installingjbosstools I can't believe that these cool explanations are not correct. For these URLs also I am getting the same error

No repository found at http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/
 Error reading update site http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/.
 Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/site.xml

[nickboldt]

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/ works for me. I see http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/artifacts.jar, http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/content.jar. and http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/site.xml. Try again?

Drools IDE (integration in Eclips) is included in JBT; Drools runtime is available separately. http://jboss.org/drools/downloads.html

Regarding the obsolete wiki page, http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/installingjbosstools, did you see the FIRST LINE of the document which reads:

Note: This article has been replaced by http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation

Fnally, if you're looking for JBoss Tools for Galileo (Eclipse 3.5) you will want to get JBT 3.1M2, not 3.0.1. It's available here:

http://jboss.org/tools/download/dev.html
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/

[shashank.rudra]

Thanks nick.. for taking time out to reply

It is strange that the stable download site works for you but at my end still I am getting a page (alas I would have been able to attach a snapshot of the page I am getting) - on this page all the text that I am able to see is

JBoss Tools Stable Release Update Site
Latest Build: 3.0.1.GA-R200905070146-H18

This is the Stable Release Update Site for JBoss Tools. See Installation Instructions.

You can also download JBoss Tools as individual zips for offline installation. See JBoss Tools Downloads.

For more information, see Installation methods.



Installation Types

Depending on how close to the bleeding edge you like to be, there are several types of releases available.

Stable Releases

Stable releases are - as indicated by their name - stable.

Development Milestones

Development builds, released once per milestone and only a few times a year, are fairly stable, but there may be some things which do not yet work. If you would like to try one of these milestones, we'd greatly appreciate the assistance in testing and reporting of issues in our issue tracker.

Nightly Builds

The bleeding edge contains the latest and greatest new features, but nothing is stable or guaranteed - yet. If you're using a Milestone and need a fix, you can update to the latest Nightly, or wait for the next Milestone.

[shashank.rudra]

Also nick when you said that after I downloaded the plugins using update site as given (that has Hibernate, FreeMarker along Drool stuff in there) - I will have to go to http://jboss.org/drools/downloads.html and download "Drools 5.0 Binaries" from there. To run the default hello application that comes up as DroolsProject.

One more question - what is "Drools 5.0 Eclipse 3.4 Workbench"- being used for. And do we have one for Eclipse3.5.

[nickboldt]

To run Eclipse 3.5 w/ plugins which will speak to a Drools runtime you need this:

a) Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) [1]
b) JBoss Tools 3.1 M2 update site (or zip), which includes Drools IDE plugins [2]
c) Drools 5.1 Beta runtime [3]

[1]http://eclipse.org/downloads/
http://eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/galileor

[2]http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.M2-N200907092133-H355.zip

[3]http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/
http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

Note: if you're installing JBT from update site zip, see http://jboss.org/tools/download/update.html#fromzip

If you can't access the unpacked update site, just download the zip from a sourceforge mirror and use that instead. Maybe you're having network timeout problems w/ download.jboss.org?

[nickboldt]

"shashank.rudra" wrote:
Also nick when you said that after I downloaded the plugins using update site as given (that has Hibernate, FreeMarker along Drool stuff in there) - I will have to go to http://jboss.org/drools/downloads.html and download "Drools 5.0 Binaries" from there. To run the default hello application that comes up as DroolsProject.

Yes. You need Eclipse + Jboss Tools + Drools runtime.

One more question - what is "Drools 5.0 Eclipse 3.4 Workbench"- being used for.

That's the plugins in Eclipse for managing / working with a Drools runtime. You can work with Drools independent of Eclipse in the same way that you can use a JBoss AS server w/o the JBoss Tools plugins ... but it's easier w/ an Eclipse-based UI than going commando, er, commandline. :)

[shashank.rudra]

Thanks nick, it could not have been better explained. awesome

[shashank.rudra]

I updted Eclipse3.5 with JBT 3.1 plugins. The steps I have takes are

1.
Got Eclipse from
http://eclipse.unixheads.org/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/R/eclipse-jee-galileo-win32.zip

2.
Got m2eclipse update using
http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update-dev/

In this step I ignored / discarded SCM for subclipse and AJDT dependency

3.
Got JBT from
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/


Now I was to get Drools Runtime from the sites Nick has given above. To my chagrin none of the two worked. From the two I mean
a)http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/
b)http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

Neither using update URL nor using the ZIP file. In both the cases I got this error

No repository found at jar:file:/D:/drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip!/.
No repository found at jar:file:/D:/drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip!/.

So in step4 I used
4.
Extracted drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip into c:/drools directory. I then used it as the runtime while creating the first "Hello"-DroolsProject.

This looks good as of now. But I am not sure whether that is a proper way to do, and want comments from you guys for the same. TIA.

[nickboldt]

Extracted drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip into c:/drools directory. I then used it as the runtime while creating the first "Hello"-DroolsProject.

Yes, that's correct. Sorry, should have mentioned that the Drools runtime is NOT an update site, nor is it a collection of Eclipse plugins/features -- it's the layer BELOW that.

So, yes, to "install" it you just unpack it somewhere and then configure the Drools IDE plugins installed into Eclipse (from their update site / zip) to tell it where you put the runtime.

It's akin to telling Eclipse where your Java runtime (JDK or JRE) is installed, if you have more than one (1.4, 5.0, 6.0).

So, as you surmised, the process in general for Eclipse install/config is:

0. install Java
1. get Eclipse, unpack
2. run Eclipse, install into it using Update (remote sites, local sites, local site zips)
3. get additional runtime(s) and unpack them outside Eclipse install folder
4. configure Eclipse to know where runtime(s) are located

Should you want to do the above for Seam, Hibernate, etc. that's the process. :)

[shashank.rudra]

true indeed thanks buddy