On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected] > wrote:
> You might find that the Eclipse STS from http://spring.io/tools is a > version 4.3 Eclipse with all of the plug-ins that you need to develop Java > apps makes it easy to add Subversive which has replaced Subclipse for most > people. > It knows how to add Subversive which makes it easy to get started quickly. > > We moved from Eclipse to Eclipse/STS several years ago when we found that > we were losing days to fix up each new version of Eclipse and had a lot of > trouble in a small shop trying to develop software development processes > when each person was using a different set of plug-ins. > Eclipse STS solved all of that and made installing a new version of > Eclipse a 15 minute process instead of days of screwing about with plug-ins. > Install Eclipse/STS, add Subversive using the links on the dashboard and > get back to productive work. > > Ron > > Thanks Ron, That is helpful. I take it that it needs no installation per se, but just to run the STS executable in the sts-bundle directory. Right? It does give me an error, though, saying that Plug-in "org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.gettingstarted" was unable to instantiate class "org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.gettingstarted.dashboard.WelcomeDashboard" Looking at the trace, it seems it can't find one or more class definitions. Is that something to worry about? I would also ask where I would find Subversiv, as I do not see it among the software items in the install software dialog. Do I have to add another repository, or am I looking in the wrong place? I did find a lot of documentation that I plan on working through, but I did not find an installation guide. And, I would ask you about other software I can install using that dialog: what you'd recommend, and what you think of the modelling tools and their potential for producing up to date UML diagrams (especially use case and E-R diagrams) for the latest version OFBiz. Thanks Ted
