[oXygen-user] Errors using Oxygen 8.0RC1 with eXist in Eclipse

[Daniel E. Renfer]

Hello,

I am getting a few errors when trying to test the new RC of oXygen in
Eclipse. I've tested this on both my development install of Eclipse
and eXist under Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and with a fresh install of
Eclipse/eXist under Windows XP.

When I try to configure an eXist db in the Oxygen DB perspective, I
get "ERROR: org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpClient" I don't always
get this error. I've been able to get the listing of collections from
time to time. I tested this with the standalone Oxygen after I was
able to get the listing under XP, because I didn't realize at the time
that Oxygen refuses to open any file that's not *.xml (very annoying
btw) I was able to open and save /db/system/users.xml, but when I went
back into Eclipse to see if I could open that file, I saw the same
httpclient error that I originally saw on Ubuntu.

When I first tried to upgrade from the 7.2 plugin to the 8.0RC1 plugin
under Ubuntu (with other existing plugins) I started getting errors
that the view could not be displayed, and that I should check the log.
I'm not quite sure where this log would be, but I found a few messages
related to Oxygen in ~/workspace/.metadata/.log as well as some more
recent ones related to Aptana. I'm not sure if it's a conflict with
Aptana and Oxygen, or if Aptana was just screwing up on it's own. I
removed Aptana and a few (but not all) of the errors went away. I also
removed all Oxygen plugins and re-installed, which took care of a few
more errors.

On a few occasions, I got notification that the resource was locked,
and was asked if it should try to re-lock it. This may or may not be
because all during this time I was running eXist from within Tomcat
from within Eclipse. I ended up re-starting many times and the server
didn't always get shut down properly every time. This was why I
decided to reboot and try it under XP with fresh everything. (Eclipse,
workspace, Oxygen plugin, eXist 1.1.1 running under jetty)

I'm using the latest JDK in all instances.

Are these bugs with Oxygen, or am I doing things wrong? Does it screw
it up if you try to include jars in addition to the 3 required? What
if they're named differently?

Thank you for making a great editor. I hope these issues can be resolved.

Daniel E. Renfer
http://kronkltd.net/