Re: Frustrated by WO / Eclipse / WOLips :(
Re: Frustrated by WO / Eclipse / WOLips :(
- Subject: Re: Frustrated by WO / Eclipse / WOLips :(
- From: Andrew Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:06:05 -0400
On May 21, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
On May 21, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Andrew Satori wrote:
Alright, so I am not an 'old school' WO dev. I have used it for a
few years now for several projects and overall I really like the
platform. That said, I am so frustrated by the tools right now, I
am about to throw the whole platform in the trash bin.
Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was managing, though not terribly
thrilled with the WOLips/Eclipse toolchain. Then my old laptop
lost a hard disk. So I replaced it with a new MacBook Pro (great
machine btw). Installed Xcode and WO. Downloaded Eclipse, ran
WOLips install (both the all in one and the get updates route),
opened current projects, none of them will build. None of the WO
Library jar's and frameworks can be found.
You could have asked then. This bug is well known and easy to
address. Using a more current (e.g. Nightly) build of WOLips should
also address this.
2 nights of Googling and poking and prodding, I finally have the
projects building (yay!), but now, no debugging. It just doesn't
work. It pretends it is going to work, but no, it just sits there
waiting and then eventually comes back with: "Exception in thread
"main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/webobjects/eocontrol/
EOEvent".
You don't say what you did to fix this. Perhaps you made a small
problem worse?
I used a nightly build, and then manually added the WebObjects Library
References to the project that were no longer there.
So obviously, it can't find the application start up process.
Seriously, we've got this great platform and tools that make VI and
Makefile's look elegant at times. I cannot imagine how we gave
seen this platform regress this badly in the last year. I look at
the blog and see all the progress, but I'll be damed if I can find
the information about how to make things actually work.
I can't be the only one feeling these frustrations, or am I really
that f'ing dumb?
Chuck
--
Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development
Come to WOWODC'09 in San Fran this June!
http://www.wocommunity.org/wowodc09/
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