The fabled 2.8 eclipse plugin will be the one to use when it's here, should
be any day now...


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I don't have an answer to your question, but maybe a suggestion.
> Eclipse does not work well with maven/scala/lift, and I really doubt
> it will anytime soon.  According to exchanges on this list, IntelliJ
> IDEA apparently has the best working implementation so far.  I've been
> using NetBeans 6.7 for a couple weeks now, and I like it better than
> Eclipse (which I've used for years).  It works a better with maven,
> and a little bit better with scala.  Neither environment handles
> testing, debugging, or refactoring smoothly though.
>
> Anyhow, with NetBeans you can just open the maven pom directly.
> You'll have to create some custom "actions" in order to get your
> programs to launch, and entering debug mode a bit of a pain.
>
> Cheers,
> Ellis
>
>
> On Jul 9, 3:02 pm, Dan Gravell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to learn about lift using the eclipse plugin but not really
> > getting far... Currently trying to build a project hangs eclipse which
> > is obviously something of a shortcoming.
> >
> > Eclipse 3.4.2
> > Scala plugin 2.7.5
> > Maven plugin Q4E (IAM) 0.10....
> >
> > So I create a new lift project externally using maven and the
> > instructions 
> > athttp://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Chore_wheel(I<http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Chore_wheel%28I>
> > believe this is the way to do it, I've tried other approaches but I
> > didn't really find anything that could be classed as canonical) did a
> > 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' and imported it into eclipse. That's when it
> > hangs, because Eclipse tries to build straight away.
> >
> > It hangs when it says:
> >
> > Starting mojoExecution scala:compile
> >
> > ... in the progress bar. Meanwhile, in a different VM I notice the
> > following process has begun:
> >
> > /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java -classpath /home/gravelld/.m2/
> > repository/org/scala-lang/scala-compiler/2.7.3/scala-
> > compiler-2.7.3.jar:/home/gravelld/.m2/repository/org/scala-lang/scala-
> > library/2.7.3/scala-library-2.7.3.jar:/home/gravelld/.m2/repository/
> > org/scala-tools/maven-scala-plugin/2.11/maven-scala-plugin-2.11.jar -
> > Xbootclasspath/a:/home/gravelld/.m2/repository/org/scala-lang/scala-
> > library/2.7.3/scala-library-2.7.3.jar
> > org.scala_tools.maven.executions.MainWithArgsInFile
> > scala.tools.nsc.Main /tmp/scala-maven-1418794117226686986.args
> >
> > But this doesn't appear to complete. Is this what the eclipse builder
> > is waiting for? I can actually run the above from the command line and
> > it returns in a couple of seconds.
> >
> > Interestingly, when working through the 'todo' example there was a
> > period when it appeared to work, but going back to it today appears to
> > show the same issue above.
> >
> > Really hoping someone can help me out because this stuff looked
> > interesting.
>
> >
>

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