Hi guys,
There is an update site out there now;
maybe you’d like to take a look at it before the Thursday morning
meeting?
It’s not publicized anywhere yet but
we’d like to put some links up to it by the end of the week. Below is the
email that I sent out to BEA employees.
-Gary
From: Gary Horen
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005
4:45 PM
To: wlw-pgm@xxxxxxx
Cc: javelin-team@xxxxxxx
Subject: APT install available on
eclipse.org!
Importance: High
There is now an update site available on
eclipse.org that will install APT into your 3.1 vanilla Eclipse.
For those who know how to use Eclipse update, the URL is http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/apt/JdtAptUpdateSite
but see instructions below regarding tools.jar
More detailed update instructions:
- Install Eclipse 3.1 final SDK
somewhere.
- Open Eclipse.
- Click on menu Help/Software
Updates/Find and Install…
- Select Search for new
features… and click Next
- Click New Remote Site button
- Make up a name (APT), insert
url: http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/apt/JdtAptUpdateSite
- Close and select APT site in
install dialog, hit Finish
- Follow wizard instructions.
- When it asks you to restart
Eclipse workspace:
- Don’t do that yet.
- See instructions regarding
tools.jar below.
Tools.jar:
Sun has not licensed redistribution of this yet, so you need
to copy it from
<your jdk 1.5 root>/lib/tools.jar to
<your eclipse
root>plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core_3.1.0.apt01/tools.jar
Do this after you run the update install,
but before you restart the
workspace.
Enable/Disable:
After you install the update, it can be disabled by going to
Help/Software Updates/Manage Configuration. When it’s disabled Eclipse
should act as if it were never installed. To re-enable, go to the same dialog;
you need to click on the toolbar icon with the red slashed circle to get the
dialog to show disabled features to re-enable it.
We hope to go public with this alpha version by the end of
the week!
Try it out!
-Gary