Re: [ajdt-dev] AJDT available for Eclipse 3.4

[gabriele.garuglieri@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all,
first thank you for your kind answers,
second Andy forgive me i didn't meant to be offensive to anybody with the
dead horse story, it was just a joke (anyway i got the answer i needed
;)

In our group we actively use Eclipse
for Java development and i've always been a sort of advanced patrol looking
for new feature or tools that could help our developement, that's the reason
why i'm often on the bleeding edge. As an exchange i've always tried to
cooperate with bugs an small patches, time permitting.
Unfortunately now my job has moved to
a position where i have really few time left for development, the only
thing i really like, so i' ll try my best to give you the info you need,
but often i'm swallowed by activities that don't leave me a moment to write
a single line of code...

Now back from the complains, i'm using
Eclipse 3.4M5 Build id: I20080207-1530 with AJDT Version: 1.6.0.200802291703
(installed with update manager)  plus a bunch of other plugins with
java 1.6.0_03-b05 on Win XP sp2 with all the latest security fixes installed.
3.4 is already stable enough and i've
already switched to without problems it since M4, so moving back my workspaces
to an older release is not an option for me.
For the rest, i tried using some old
code i got from internet, and i got any sort of problems. Possibly this
could be due to code problems but i couldn't try to understand it because
aj editor refuses to start. This happens also using one of the examples
installed with ajdt where code should be clean of problems. For the moment
i want to concentrate only on this problem, because the rest of problems
could just be the result of bad coding, but  to understand it i need
at least a working editor.

Left alone the fact that editing a .java
file that contains an aspect with java editor drives it completely crazy,
when i try to edit an aj file or a .java aspect file with aj editor i get
the following:
Unable to create editor ID org.eclipse.ajdt.internal.ui.editor.CompilationUnitEditor:
The editor class could not be instantiated. This usually indicates a missing
no-arg constructor or that the editor's class name was mistyped in plugin.xml.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.JavaTextTools.<init>(JavaTextTools.java:157)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.JavaTextTools.<init>(JavaTextTools.java:103)
        at org.eclipse.ajdt.internal.ui.editor.AspectJTextTools.<init>(AspectJTextTools.java:32)
        at org.eclipse.ajdt.internal.ui.editor.AspectJEditor.initializeEditor(AspectJEditor.java:498)
        at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractDecoratedTextEditor.<init>(AbstractDecoratedTextEditor.java:297)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.JavaEditor.<init>(JavaEditor.java:234)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.CompilationUnitEditor.<init>(CompilationUnitEditor.java:1020)
        at org.eclipse.ajdt.internal.ui.editor.AspectJEditor.<init>(AspectJEditor.java:103)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.osgi.RegistryStrategyOSGI.createExecutableExtension(RegistryStrategyOSGI.java:170)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ExtensionRegistry.createExecutableExtension(ExtensionRegistry.java:863)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:243)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElementHandle.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElementHandle.java:51)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin.createExtension(WorkbenchPlugin.java:236)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.registry.EditorDescriptor.createEditor(EditorDescriptor.java:233)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.createPart(EditorManager.java:846)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:606)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPart(EditorReference.java:428)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:594)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.getEditor(EditorReference.java:266)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2721)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2633)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$12(WorkbenchPage.java:2625)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$10.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2577)
        at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:67)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2572)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2556)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2547)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.EditorUtility.openInEditor(EditorUtility.java:331)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.EditorUtility.openInEditor(EditorUtility.java:194)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:222)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.OpenAction.run(OpenAction.java:203)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.dispatchRun(SelectionDispatchAction.java:268)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.SelectionDispatchAction.run(SelectionDispatchAction.java:244)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.PackageExplorerActionGroup.handleOpen(PackageExplorerActionGroup.java:343)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.PackageExplorerPart$5.open(PackageExplorerPart.java:607)
        at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$2.run(StructuredViewer.java:820)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:857)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:46)
        at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:199)
        at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.fireOpen(StructuredViewer.java:818)
        at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1079)
        at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$6.handleOpen(StructuredViewer.java:1183)
        at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.fireOpenEvent(OpenStrategy.java:263)
        at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$2(OpenStrategy.java:257)
        at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$1.handleEvent(OpenStrategy.java:297)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:982)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3760)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3371)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2392)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2356)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2222)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:474)
        at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:288)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:469)
        at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:106)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:106)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:76)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:362)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:175)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:564)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1251)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1227)

Do you think this is worth a bug or
is just a problem with my installation?

Gabriele