I normally download the installer
http://download.springsource.com/release/STS/3.5.1/dist/e4.3/spring-tool-suite-3.5.1.RELEASE-e4.3.2-win32-installer.exe
Run it and let it install Eclipse with the plug-ins.
I end up with a sts.exe file that I run.
I have not seen this error
Plug-in "org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.gettingstarted" was unable
to instantiate class
"org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.gettingstarted.dashboard.WelcomeDashboard"
but
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-3712 describes a way to
get this to happen by using a folder with a space in the foldername.
Perhaps a "-" can have the same effect.
Try renaming the folder where it is installed.
If that does not fix it, try Googling the error message and see if
anything else shows up.
Subversive should be referenced from the Dashboard if my memory serves
me well (or at all).
If you add the Kepler release software site (it may already be there)
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler
you will find Subversive listed under "Collaboration"
Ron
On 11/06/2014 9:27 PM, Ted Byers wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Ron Wheeler
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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