[Mike]

Ok, maybe a little harsh, but really, I’ve been using MyEclipse for a VERY long time now, and since about the 6.5 timeframe, things have been going downhill rapidly. I was having some problems with updates in 6.5, proxy authentication errors, even though all the proxy setup was correct. For some mysterious reason this got better when I had all Maven projects closed, which is how I eventually got the update to 6.6, this was on Monday. Since then I’ve been getting progressively worse display problems, a bunch of null pointer exceptions. Then, possibly unrelated to any of this, I started having problems with my Adobe Flex Builder. So I updated it to the latest version, taking care of that problem, but now the compare view with Subversion (subclipse) won’t work. Ok, fine I think, I’ll use this as an opportunity to move to 7.0. I download and install with no difficulties, then tell it to update. Just for the basic software already installed with the all-in-one package. Bam, I’m getting all these 403 errors for packages with “pulse” in the name. Ok, I try to just do a manual update. Wham, crash, bang! No go, more errors initializing updates, then more proxy errors. So I give Pulse proper a try. It keeps prompting me for my credentials no matter how many times I tell it to remember my credentials, AND giving me that annoying “Master Password” dialog every time I do. So, I don’t tell it to remember my credentials, get 2 prompts, and things appear to be working. Fine. Finally!! So, in order to minimize problems that might be caused by having stuff in my old workspace, I’m using a new one. Subclipse seems to be working, now its time to pull in my one of my old (6.6) projects. I go for a straight Spring/Hibernate one, trying to start out easy. It imports everything, then says that Maven will work better if I give it a REAL JDK, so I click the link and give it the same JDK I give to everything else, 1.5.0_11 as distributed by Oracle/Bea on Weblogic 10 SP1. Then on my console it looks like Maven has started running, I’m getting a bunch of messages that its running install-file, and it keeps trying to run it on a javaw.exe file, over and over and over, until I finally gave up. I’m gonna go try plain Ganymede for a while. Please let me know when you have a viable product again. Thank you. Mike

[Scott Anderson]

Mike,

First, let me apologize for the issues you’re experiencing. You’ve sort of given us a long list of items, but since you now have MyEclipse 7 installed, I’d like to start with that and see what we can figure out.

First, some basic information about the type of system you’re on would really be quite helpful as my responses would likely be different if you’re on Linux versus Windows, for example. For now I’ll assume you’re on WIndows, since most Linux users mention that.

Ok, fine I think, I’ll use this as an opportunity to move to 7.0. I download and install with no difficulties, then tell it to update. …, I’m getting all these 403 errors for packages with “pulse” in the name … then more proxy errors.

Are you behind an NTLM-based (Microsoft, typically) proxy by chance? The reason I ask is that we’ve identified a problem with update and reference behavior behind NTLM proxies and we’re QA’ing a very high priority fix for right now. A proxy failure like this could easily account for the other issues you experienced as well so while this may seem like a lot of unrelated breaks across multiple product versions I believe it’s more likely the proxy problem manifesting itself in various ways within the product versions for the features that need network support.

The current timeline on getting the proxy fix promoted to production is within 24 hours. At that time I’ll post a followup to this thread so you can hopefully give it a try and get MyEclipse 7 back on its feet. In the interim, we apologize for the inconvenience and thank you in advance for your patience as we rapidly move to address the issue.

[christweekie]

Hi

I too got really frustrated with this release, having been a paying customer for 3 years. Like you, II had huge problems installing anything from behind my proxy. Now the NTLM issues are sorted (although that was a big oversight in the release), things seem OK. The only problems that continue to bug me are

1. the subclipse install is failing. However, this seems to be a problem with the SVNKit adapter. If you just use JavaHL, things seem to work OK. I am not clear whether this is myeclipse related or just a problem from the actual update site.
2. The general tie-in that Genuitec have done with pulse. Whatever you do, MyEclipse is sending messages to poweredbypulse.com. Not good.

I feel like I have been used as a beta test site, in all honesty but I am going to stick with it for now.
Chris

[Mike]

We’re using Squid, they validate against LDAP. No NTLM in the mix so far thank goodness. I am back in business, installed the Ganymede J2EE stack, added Subclipse, M2Eclipse, the Flex builder plugin, and Oracle/Weblogic’s piece for my server and everything works, including updates. Hoping this helps, here’s some log outputs from the 7 workspace .meta log.

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