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. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
