[oXygen-user] Re: Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application Developer

[Timothy Reaves]

MyEclipse and the latest version of Eclipse are a great combo, and  
oXygen works well there.


On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Alexander Voss wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the info. I'm not committed to RAD
> and could chose an alternative but it needs to
> be very low cost (get RAD for free through IBM's
> academic initiative) and it would have to support
> WYSIWYG editing of the user interface parts.
> Any suggestions? Especially ones where oXygen
> is know to work? How about myeclipse?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am in the process of switching from a pure Eclipse
>>> environment to IBM's Rational Application Developer
>>> and was wondering if it is possible to use the
>>> current version of oXygen in this environment. The
>>> download page suggests that oXygen only runs with
>>> Eclipse 3.1 but IBM RAD is based on 3.0. Does that
>>> mean that I would have to downgrade to oXygen 6.1
>>> (last one that was eclipse 3.0 based) or is there
>>> another solution? I guess one would be using it
>>> stand-alone but that's not really what I'm looking
>>> for. Any ideas?
>> The latest version of oXygen does not work in RAD.
>> As an aside, fight very hard to stay as far away as possible from  
>> RAD.
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>> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:49:11 +0200
>> From: Sorin Ristache <>
>> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application
>> 	Developer
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>> Hello,
>> As stated on the Download page and in the User Manual the Eclipse  
>> plugin distribution only supports the latest Eclipse version  
>> available at the release date. Usually the plugin also works in  
>> other Eclipse versions but when the Eclipse team introduces  
>> changes in the API accessed by the <oXygen/> plugin some features  
>> of the plugin stop working. The next version of <oXygen/> adapts  
>> to the API changes but the versions already released are left  
>> supporting what was available at the release date.
>> That means the API changes introduced between the stable Eclipse  
>> versions 3.0 and 3.1 limit you to the version 6.1 of the plugin.
>> Best regards,
>> Sorin
>> Timothy Reaves wrote:
>>> On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Alexander Voss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am in the process of switching from a pure Eclipse
>>>> environment to IBM's Rational Application Developer
>>>> and was wondering if it is possible to use the
>>>> current version of oXygen in this environment. The
>>>> download page suggests that oXygen only runs with
>>>> Eclipse 3.1 but IBM RAD is based on 3.0. Does that
>>>> mean that I would have to downgrade to oXygen 6.1
>>>> (last one that was eclipse 3.0 based) or is there
>>>> another solution? I guess one would be using it
>>>> stand-alone but that's not really what I'm looking
>>>> for. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The latest version of oXygen does not work in RAD.
>>>
>>> As an aside, fight very hard to stay as far away as possible from  
>>> RAD.
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