[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: PDT all-in-one can't enable Java plugin

["Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "Adam Solymos" <regady@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> Ps: Please, somebody tell me, which is Eclipse's basic plugin for simple 
>> Java SE development! Thx.
>
> All the org.eclipse.jdt.* plug-ins, for example, org.eclipse.jdt.core, 
> org.eclipse.jdt.ui, org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core, ... there are about a dozen 
> in all.  There are also some other plug-ins that the org.eclipse.jdt.* 
> plug-ins depend upon, that are included in the JDT package.
>
> If you have org.eclipse.jdt.ui, then you probably have all the others as 
> well.
>
> Make sure that you are running Eclipse on a 1.5 or higher JRE (check your 
> Help -> About -> Software Configuration to be sure).  It will run on 
> lower-level platforms but not all functionality will be available.


Oh, some more things:

1. I know you said in your first post that you have a 1.6 JRE, but you 
should really check in Help -> About -> Configuration Details to be sure 
that is the one that is getting used, and if you are running on Linux make 
sure that it is a Sun JRE (not gcj).

2. Check the error log (Window -> Show View -> Error Log, or you might have 
to look inside the PDE Perspective, or just look with a text editor in 
[workspace-directory]/.metadata/.log) to see if there are any errors being 
reported.