Eclipse Adventures on Fedora 16

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the help.

On 12/11/2011 02:11 AM, Ian Petersen wrote:
> Well, in your original message you said, "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."
>
> But it's unsurprising that the thing that threw the exception is
> installed; it has to be installed for it to run, and it has to run
> before it can throw an exception.  The important part of the message
> is the class that couldn't be found, which is
> org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException.
>
> According to a random source I found in the first few hits on Google
> (http://www.jarfinder.com/index.php/java/info/org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException),
> the class that couldn't be found might come from a .jar file with
> xmlrpc in the name.  Looking a little further, it appears that the
> central source for Apache's XML RPC implementation is at
> http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc, and the download page is at
> http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/download.html.  The binary archive
> contains, among other things, xmlrpc-common-3.1.3.jar, which includes
> a definition of XmlRpcException.

I copied a few jars related to xmlrpc from the working Eclipse distro to 
the one that isn't working, restarted the one that wasn't working, and 
it made no difference.

> It's been a few years since I've worked much in the Java community,
> but there was nothing like what you describe for Java in general a few
> years ago.  Eclipse is based on a plug-in architecture, though, and it
> has its own system for describing, distributing, and updating plug-ins
> (which you at least got a taste of if you installed Mylyn through
> Eclipse rather than yum).  I don't know whether it's better to let yum
> or Eclipse manage your Eclipse plug-ins.

Neither do I. It's probably not good to do both.
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Clifford Ilkay
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