Re: RDi 9.9.0.3 vs. Snippets

A lot of us are using Snippets. I was just told by Steve a few weeks ago
that Templates are what we are supposed to be using instead, but that's
interesting at best. I liked how I could keep the Snippits view open and
just drag and drop whenever I needed one.

My vote would be to bring them back, and then leave them there.


Thanks,

Jason E. Olson
IBM i Engineer/Developer
josys36@xxxxxxxxx



On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 7:32 AM Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Steve,

thanks for that information about the matter.

It would have been good, if the removal of the Snippets view would have
been part of the release information, because we would have stopped feeding
that update to our developers.

It's not good, that we have no chance to install the Snippets view from a
3rd party source. So we will have to stop updating RDi in our environment.

The removal of the Snippets feature was already bad with 9.8 - especially
that the central distribution of Snippets via configuration files on our
development machine also stopped working.

I understand that probably not so many customers are using it - be we rely
a lot on those centrally managed Snippets in our development process.

Regards,
Daniel

Am 16.06.2026 um 14:12 schrieb Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <

wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi Daniel,

The IES feature is required.

We removed the snippets view because it was incomplete and should be

installed with the Eclipse Web Developer tools.

I'll peek at the conflict and see if we can correct the issue, so it

installs without removing our main IES feature. I'd rather have users
manage that feature.

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Hi all,

can it be, that RDi 9.9.0.3 has killed the Snippets view again?

After installing the update, I get this error message inside the view:

Could not create the view:
org.eclipse.wst.common.snippets.internal.ui.SnippetsView

And installing the Eclipse Web Developer Tools from the 2024-03

repository doesn't help, as it collides with an IBM feature:

Eclipse Web Developer Tools
3.31.0.v202403030558
(org.eclipse.wst.web_ui.feature.feature.group)

vs.

IBM IES Feature
4.31.3.202605190828
(com.ibm.irs.feature.feature.group)

And if you decide to remove the IES feature, RDi doesn't start anymore.

So no Snippets for me it seems? Has anyone else the same experience?

Thanks in advance
Daniel
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