Eclipse Adventures on Fedora 16

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Hello,

Thanks to Giles Orr, I'm happily using Freemind. Inspired by Chris 
Browne's comments about Java not necessarily being as slow and piggy as 
the popular wisdom would suggest, I decided to give Eclipse another 
shot. After installing from the Fedora repos, I installed the PyDev and 
Mylyn add-ons. Mylyn has a Trac connector and as those of you who 
attended my presentation a couple of months ago about Trac know, we use 
it extensively for managing projects. I had to configure Trac to expose 
an xmlrpc interface and then configure a repository in Eclipse to 
connect to Trac via xmlrpc. I got an exception: "Internal error 
validating repository: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcException". To determine whether the problem was 
on the Trac side or on the Eclipse side, I wrote a simple Python script 
to authenticate against Trac and then query Trac for the xmlrpc methods 
it exposed. It worked so I knew that Trac was configured properly.

I thought it could be a missing dependency in Eclipse. That was not the 
case. The package containing 
org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.trac.core.TracClientFactory.createClient(TracClientFactory.java:34), 
which is what threw the exception, was installed. I Googled and couldn't 
find anything useful. A few blog posts talked about how easy it was to 
set this up. The only problems that people seemed to encounter were on 
the Trac side, which I was fairly certain was working.

I downloaded an Eclipse distro for OS X and tried connecting to Trac 
from Mylyn. It worked so now I knew that it was something specific to 
Eclipse.

I then downloaded an Eclipse distro for Linux and installed it in my 
home directory. After installing Mylyn, etc., I was able to connect to 
Trac in exactly the same manner as had failed with the Fedora-supplied 
Eclipse. Unfortunately, that Eclipse distro is otherwise unusable. It 
takes 15 seconds to open a file in the editor after double clicking and 
switching from one open file tab to another is equally slow.

Therefore, I'm quite motivated to get the Fedora-supplied Eclipse 
working. Any suggestions would be welcome and appreciated.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
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