Question on updating Eclipse

[Joe Gliniecki]

I've finally gotten around to installing Eclipse Ganymede Web Tools Platform. This gives you WTP 3.0.0. I noticed on the WTP project site that 3.0.1 was released on August 22nd and 3.0.2 will be released on Sept 25 as part of the Ganymede simultaneous release. I went to the update manager to try and update to 3.0.1, but it said there were no updates available. Is this because I downloaded the Ganymede flavor of WTP and will have to wait until Sept 25?

I had a similar experience with the Subversive plugin, where I used the Ganymede Subversive update site which gave me version 0.7.1, and eclipse wouldn't allow an update to the current 0.7.3. So I used the non-Ganymede Subversive update site, which loaded 0.7.3.

So in a nutshell, if you downloaded Ganymede, you will be on a less-frequent release schedule than if you downloaded from the individual project sites? And will sticking with Ganymede make life easier for updating come June when a new major release of Eclipse is out? Or will that require a fresh install?

Thanks,
Joe

[Jesper de Jong]

I updated this in my Eclipse Ganymede like this:

Go to Help / Software Updates, select the Available Software tab. Click open the "Web Tools (WTP) Update Site", select "Web Tools Platform (WTP) 3.0.1" and click on the Install button.

I've noticed that the WTP version in Eclipse Ganymede has a lot of new features, but also that it's buggy. One of the most annoying things is that it frequently seems to hang for 5-7 seconds while editing JavaScript code...

[Joe Gliniecki]

Thought I'd post how I solved the problem.

First, I probably didn't describe my situation well. I had installed the Java EE flavor of Ganymede, so I didn't need to install WTP 3.0.1, but rather update it.

I posted on the Eclipse site, and someone mentioned that before trying to update packages, you probably first have to enable the webtools update site. It is disabled by default (they all should be, except the basics) and it can be enabled on the manage update sites dialog.

I did that, and it solved my problem - I was able to update to 3.0.1.

Hope it helps