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I am having the “unable to create part” problem very consistently. I can’t use the struts-config editor (which is why i bought this thing in the first place), even simple .properties files won’t open.
I decided to try updating everything I can update (GEF and so forth). But when I use the update feature, I always get the following error:
unable to read features.xml [unable to open zip file]
(this is approximate wordage.. i’m going by memory)
I am completely unable to use the update feature! please help.
Rather than try to update and walk through all the things that *might* be causing this, can you try installing a fresh release of Eclipse 3.0.1 and ME 3.8.2 in a new location? Once that’s working, you can launch it and point it to your existing workspace to get going again. This really is likely the fastest way to a working configuration since you haven’t told us anything about your setup.
Things to Check:
1) Make sure you are using Eclipse 3.0.1 SDK (~85 meg)
2) Make sure your download for MyEclipse is not incomplete/corrupt (~55meg)
3) Don’t install MyEclipse under your Eclipse dir, install it someplace else like C:\MyEclipse
4) The ‘unable to create part’ is one of the more popular problems that popup and is always related to an incompatible plugin version or someone that mucked up their plugins or MyEclipse requirements.
5) Don’t try and update/change the plugins in the <myeclipse>\eclipse\plugins directory.
6) Don’t try and copy any of the <myeclipse>\eclipse\plugins directories into your <eclipse dir>\plugins directory, the two are suppose to stay separate, Eclipse loads them up via the Extension mechanism.
7) Make sure you are using a 1.4 JRE to run Eclipse (and JDK to run the application servers).
8) Are you trying to run nightly builds of any of the required plugins like Draw2D or GEF?
9) Do not try and run MyEclipse on Eclipse 3.1.x, it is not supported as Eclipse 3.1 GA will not be out until atleast May of next year.Those are all the ‘gotchas’ that I can think of off the top of my head… let us know what you find with a clean install. That is definately the easiest/cleanest/fastest way to go.
AAARGH!! this is really getting silly.
okay, i COMPLETELY removed eclipse and uninstalled ME. it turns out i had slightly older version of both, so i went out and got the latest release of eclipse and ME (both with the file sizes you mentioned). i have no reason to believe either file would be corrupt.
so, i’ve got nothing left but my workspace at this point. i unzip the eclipse download. simple enough.
then, i install ME. now, there’s really only two things i could screw up during the ME install —
1) don’t install ME over eclipse; i didn’t, they’re in totally separate folders (/eclipse and /MyEclipse).
2) don’t point to the wrong eclipse folder; i pointed to the root folder of where eclipse is installed (/eclipse), the one with the .eclipseproduct file.
other than that, i really don’t see what i could be screwing up here. so, anyway, now when i run ME, instead of “unable to create part,” i get “OLE Error Opening”
like i said.. AAAARGH! any ideas?
thx.
OLE? From your paths it looks like you are on *nix, did you run the Windows installer?
And yes, please try to create a new workspace just for kicks. Also make sure you are running as the same user you installed Eclipse AND MyEclipse as. If you purchase (or have) a subscription, you can run Eclipse/MyEclipse as separate users, but for testing sake lets keep this simple.
i’m on windows xp sp2 (sorry if the forward slashes were misleading, i guess i secretly wish i could use linux all the time :o)).
i only have one user account on the box.
are you saying you think my workspace could be corrupt?
hmmmmm… somehow, even after uninstalling/reinstalling, this thing remembered where my cvs repository is.. something’s not kosher here.
well, the struts-config editor now works. it’s just the one .properties file so far giving me the error, so i manually created a new version and that seemed to fix it. i guess the workspace was corrupt, at least for a few files. i suppose i’ll just repair the individual files as i come across them.
so, thx for your help and i guess i’m good for now.
one question: one about updates? is there anything else i should install?
