Re: [m2e-users] Having a Bad Week - eclipse sick

[Steve Cohen <scohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/27/2011 08:04 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
> I don't believe that 'unused perspectives' eat anything interesting. I
> do believe that those strange labels indicate that something, well,
> strange, happened to your Eclipse, and I'm at a loss to characterize
> what it might have been. But arbitrary giant squid may be swimming
> below if that's the surface, at least as far as I know.
>
> While I raised the possibility that you are suffering something
> tangled up with your use of a copy of Windows with antique license
> places, I certainly can't prove it from here. In general, M2E takes
> one very complicated system (Eclipse) and plugs another very
> complicated system (Maven) into the very same JVM. The two systems
> have, in some areas, independent, big, complex, mechanisms for solving
> related problems (class loading and artifact management, e.g.). I
> applaud the efforts of the M2E team. I believe that some problems are
> inevitable as they climb the hill. I decided to invest effort in using
> M2E (and building some plugins) rather than adopting the orphan
> maven-eclipse-plugin and making improvements to it. This choice hasn't
> entirely worked out yet, but I retain hope.
me too.

Have now adopted your permgen suggestions.  Keeping fingers crossed.