I have both Eclipse 3.5 and 3.6 on ubuntu 10.04. I am trying, actually attempting to install Spring IDE.
As usual, I install plug-ins on my galileo first before doing it on helios in case things break, since I actually use helios while galileos mostly languishes unused on my workstations. Which, in hind-sight (don't know why some people use the phrase hind-site), was a smart move, because I am stuck now.
As you can see, from my dry humour, I am rather frustrated now. So, pardon me for any unpardonable words or phrases that I might have used here. Here is my La Dolce Vita sequence of philandering with various eclipse update sites:
At [help: install new software] using [http://springide.org/updatesite], I selected all the choices to install. Have you ever wondered why [install new software] is under [help] menu because [help:install new software] does not actually provide any "help" documentation on installing software. It does not "help" you resolve all the missing requirements or where to find them.
The response was " ... cannot complete ... " and then took a long long long time generating a reason why it could not be completed even though I have a quad core 6gb machine. The reason was " ... mylyn feature not found ... ".
Then, I reduced my installation selection to only the three core items, and after a long^3 time, the reason for " ... cannot complete ... " was " ... mylyn something else ..." not found.
So I diverted the install to galileos update site and installed every mylyn item I could find. I had to restart eclipse. Then I went back to using springide update site to attempt installing only the top three core. This time, after another long^3 while, the reason for incompletability was " ... mylyn jira feature not found ...".
So I woogled and googled for "eclipse mylyn jira connector" which led me to Spring web site which makes some foreign key references to JIRA. At some point a site suggested that I installed http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4 to get jira???. I did as advised, and nope still " ... jira feature not found ..."
Somehow, surprisingly, when I googled "wtf is eclipse mylyn jira connector?" it pointed me to a site advising " jira has moved to atlassian ....". At that point, I was wondering ... why do i have to prefix expletives in my google search expression to get a useful answer?
To cut this episode of the story shorter, I installed every gastronomic item atlassian update site had to offer on the menu. I had to restart eclipse.
Still when tried installing Spring IDE again, just the top three items, the incompletability reason was again " ... jira feature not found ... ".
But if I selected every item to be installed, the incompletability reason was " ... something something eclipse ajdt not found ...".
At this point I have two crucial questions for which I need answers:
Is there a complete list of whatever I need to install and where to find them, in order to complete my Spring IDE installation successfully?
Should I trust Spring technology to be able to provide a hassle free route to mvp/mvc automation, if they cannot even provide comprehensive, useful and workable instructions on how to install their product? iow, Should I bother with Spring? Or, should I continue my current menial/manual method?
And a trivial question: When installing modules, netbeans resolves all the requirements for me, why doesn't eclipse?