[news.eclipse.technology.m2e] Re: Eclipse errors after SCM update

[Yves Schumann <starwarsfan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Igor

Igor Fedorenko schrieb:
> I don't have much experience with Eclipse ClearCase plugin (and the
> little experience I had was not a good one),

Which plugin do you try? The Plugin for the full ClearCase installation
or the plugin for the ClearCase Remote Client? Which problems do you have?


> First, make sure that Eclipse workspace is in sync with underlying
> filesystem (select all projects, right click, Refresh).

Done this more than a million times till now... ;-)


> If Refresh does not help, try forcing Maven dependency re-resolution
> (Project->Update All Maven Dependencies). Internally, m2e uses
> filesystem timestamps to detect pom.xml file changes and it may get
> confused if ClearCase does anything funny.

Same as above.


> You can also try full/clean workspace build (Project->Clean...->Clean
> all projects).

Same as above.


> And lastly, 0.9.6 is quite old so I would recommend giving 0.9.8 a try.

OK, I will try this tomorrow. Oh well, not tomorrow, today! :-)


> If any of these steps makes the errors go away, we can dig deeper to see
> how to actually fix the problem.

I let you know what's going on.


>> Oh, there is another thing I can mention here: Eclipse hangs without
>> any reaction if I try to import a lot of projects at once.
...
> This is likely https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249930.
> It is not m2e specific. You can either build patched JDT core or move
> to Eclipse 3.5.

Hm, I think to try Eclipse 3.5.


Thx a lot for your suggestions. Regards,
Yves
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