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Hi, I've just started on AspectJ programming and would like to make use of the AJDT plugins for Eclipse. I downloaded and installed from the Install/Update feature in the Preferences menu. At this time I did a restart. No project was converted to AspectJ at this time. I noticed that the actions "refresh" and "build" for my standard Java projects do not complete, or when they do it takes an extraordinary long time. During all this time, the CPU utilisation jumps to a full 100% and make the system unusable. It is not possible to do anything else in Eclipse during this time. When it completes, it's in the order of half or 1 minute. During these actions, a progress bar appears on the screen. For some actions, this progress bar has the feature to put the action towards the background. Having done that however, other applications cannot receive window focus and the desktop is almost entirely locked. The only application that can receive focus is the taskmanager ( luckily ). I am attaching three screenshots with the details. The TM shows the 100% utilisation, the other windows show detailed actions that Eclipse is at that time executing ( or appear to be executing ). It appears that it's in the phase of updating other UI components. I have executed eclipse.exe using the "-debug" option to try to get more information ( maybe it's looping on exceptions or whatever ), but there's no info coming out when it is executing these actions, I do not know if it's possible to increase verbosity with other options. During the looping, the memory does not grow extensively. I am using actually the SDK version of eclipse, from the archive "eclipse-SDK- 3.0M9-win32.zip" on a Windows 2000 system. I've tried to disable some features using the project properties options and the windows | preferences "AspectJ" pages, but to no avail. When I remove the plugins and do a restart, all the actions can be executed as normal and no looping occurs anymore, so the problem seems to definitely occur when AspectJ is installed. Please let me know how I can help to provide more information, as I am not an expert in debugging Eclipse or its plugins. If you require more info about my system, don't hesitate to contact. Regards, Gerard
Created attachment 15173 [details] Screenshots of progress bars and CPU utiliisation.
Hi Gerard, Could you try using the eclipse 3.0 final and seeing if you have the same problems? (the zip is eclipse-SDK-3.0-win32.zip). Thanks, Helen
Hi Helen, With this drop eclipse-SDK-3.0-win32.zip I have no problems whatsoever. I've had to take some time to make sure my settings were the same to verify. AspectJ is installed in this final now and there's no performance degredation that I can notice. I've noticed that when I close/open and build projects in this version, the option "Details>>" in the progress bar is locked. In the M9 build it was possible to see the details during open/close/build operations. Possibly the problem was related to the progress bar updates/details. Regards, Gerard
Hi Gerard, Good to hear that everything's working for you in Eclipse 3.0 Final. I'm therefore closing this bug. Thanks, Helen
