Description Terry Kilshaw 2018-08-21 16:29:43 EDT

Created attachment 275476 [details]
Eclipse Workspace log file

This is long and fairly complex but please bear with it as I detail a couple of other issues on the way to the big-one.

RAP looks like a really interesting technology but so far I have spent the best part of two days installing and reinstalling it.

1) download eclipse-inst-win64.exe from the Eclipse download area.

2) run that installer. Looking at the About item it says:

Installer version: 1.9.0 Build 3551 

and references:

http://download.eclipse.org/oomph/products/repository

3) In the installer choose the Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers item

I installed this to "C:\Users\terry.QUANTECH\eclipse_photon"

The workspace was the following in C:\Users\terry.QUANTECH\eclipse_photon-workspace\.metadata\version.ini

#Tue Aug 21 13:06:01 PDT 2018
org.eclipse.core.runtime=2
org.eclipse.platform=4.8.0.v20180611-0500

4) Launch that Eclipse

5) on the Welcome screen click on the item:

Tutorial: Get Started with the Remote Application Platform

6) Following the Cheat Sheet we see:

"This cheat sheet shows you how to explore the demo applications that come with RAP.  If not yet done we will help you to install the RAP Target Platform.  As RAP is a platform itself it cannot be installed on top of an existing Eclipse installation." 

I would have thought that RAP Target Platform was already installed. 
But if I continue with the cheat sheet without installing the RAP Platform then the demo application will not be in the list in the Import Plug-ins and Fragments Found list.

OK, so I go back and install the Target Platform, as the cheat sheet says. 

NOTE: Typo in the Cheat Sheet text:

"First let's install the target..."

Should be:

"First let's install the target..."

7) Next follow the cheat sheet to import the demo.

That works well.

The next cheat sheet item says:

"To launch the demo application we use the RAP Workbench Demo launch configration that is bundled with the just imported plug-in. 
Use the Run > Open Run Dialog menu item or click Perform and select the above mentioned launch configuration."

NOTE: Run > should be Run >.

NOTE: There is no Run > Open Run Dialog menu item in Eclipse Photon.

8) Click the next cheat sheet "Click to Perform" clickable and the Select Configuration window opens.

From there choose the RAP Workbench Demo item and click the OK button.

Eclipse opens a browser pane on the Eclipse Workbench. Its title in the tab is "RAP Workbench Demo"

It has the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1:53276/workbench/

And says "The webpage cannot be found". 

9) Now quit Eclipse

10) Now launch Eclipse again.

When I choose the same workspace, and there is only one workspace, I get a dialog that says:

"An error has occurred. See the log file C:\Users\terry.QUANTECH\eclipse-photn-workspace\.metadata\.log"

That log file is attached.

This is a show-stopper. There is no way to get into that workspace.

The only way around this is to delete the eclipspe and workspace folders and to reinstall.