Re: EGL-CE in Linux (was EGL Community Edition - Now Available)

I just finished up the demo using EGL-CE and all seems to be working well. Granted, I am not using a DB connection yet and I haven't had to deploy an app but a simple RUI app was successfully completed. Does that mean that EGL-CE on Linux is stable and ready for production? Well, I can't say. However, the results so far have been encouraging. It wasn't my intention to jump back into EGL at this moment but I did at least want to kick the tires and give EGL-CE a whirl on Linux. Now I need to boot back into Windows 7 and see if it all works on that side as well (can't see why it wouldn't).

Next step is to do something substantial to exercise these EGL legs again. At least the Linux hurdle was a low one.

Pete

Pete Helgren wrote:

Well reading a bit and learning to pay close attention seems to have paid off. I can't say whether everything works in Linux but I was able to install the plugin in Eclipse and begin to run the tutorial (I just didn't have the time to run it forward all the way).

A couple of things to pay attention to:

Make sure you go to the "older versions" when you are downloading Eclipse. By default the current J2EE version of Eclipse is Galileo and, trust me, it *doesn't* work with the EGL-CE plugin. You want the J2EE version of Ganymede. I downloaded SR2.

Outside of that, the only other download (or install) was to install Java 5 which my fresh copy of OpenSUSE 11.1 did not have installed, so I used Yast to install it.

The RUI demo was a tough test of dexterity for me. I'll let you form your own opinion but as I walked through the first few steps of creating the window and adding boxes to it, it was pretty dang tough for these eyes and hands to *carefully* position the cursor *just so* in order to get the boxes in the proper position. I'll be interested in what kind of experience others have who try the "Password Window" RUI tutorial (in windows OR Linux). Being unable to grow the boxes after they have been placed on the pallet initially makes it difficult to drop additional boxes in the correct position. Or, maybe I just need new bifocals.....

At least it loads and seems to work in Linux, so that is a start.

Pete


Pete Helgren wrote:

Thanks for that reminder and link. I am re-downloading the correct version of Eclipse (J2EE) and I'll post back when it is installed. I should have RTFM'ed before heading out on my own.

The usual "ready,shoot,aim" routine for me....

Pete


Colpaert, Peter wrote:

I remember reading that you shouldn't just drop the plugins in the folder, but use the installer included in eclipse:

"The plugin should be installed via Software Updates menu and not put into the dropins directory."

(see http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/docs/DOC-3245 )

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
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-----Original Message-----
From: egl-i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:egl-i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: donderdag 10 september 2009 21:18
To: EGL on and around the IBM i
Subject: Re: [EGL-i] EGL Community Edition - Now Available

I went ahead and installed Java 5, Eclipse and then unzipped the
Plugins
into the eclipse folder in my Linux partition (SUSE 11.1) on the Acer
netbook I have and although I see some evidence of the EGL components
(Welcome Page, EGL being included the "New" options under file-->
Other,
etc) it looks like it isn't fully implemented. I cannot create an EGL
project for example (using File-->New-->EGL Project) so I am guessing
that the plugin isn't an option for Linux at the moment.

Perhaps there is another way to "install" the plugin but my usual
approach is just to unzip the new plugin into the plugins ,and in this
case, features, folders.

Not a big deal for me. I can deal with the vagaries of Windows 7 since
I have to run Windows for my MyEclipse, RBD, RDi and VS 2005
development
anyway.

Pete

Jon Paris wrote:

That's a thought David - didn't realize that was an option. After I
noticed the list of requirements (i.e. Windows) I didn't look any
further. I'll maybe give that a try over the weekend. Probably

start

with a vanilla download of Eclipse - don't want to screw up any of

the

currently working stuff.

Wonder why only notes to the list from you are picked up by my
midrange filter? All the others today went into the regular mail.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On 9-Sep-09, at 8:56 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

Jon Paris wrote:

I was hoping it would run on the Mac or Linux but sadly it is

Windows

only. I'll still run it - but it moves lower down the "must try"

Q.

Have you tried just downloading the plug-in version and installing
it in an existing Eclipse 3.4 directory?

david

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