Eclipse + Vim = Eclim

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I tried Eclim some time last year. I thought the idea of tackling the eclipse/vim-integration situation from a completely different angle was very clever, but the implementation wasn’t quite there. I couldn’t even get through the installation. more…

How To Upgrade The Freemarker Jar Bundled In JBoss Freemarker IDE

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The current version (1.0.0.GA) of Freemarker IDE from JBoss Tools comes with freemarker-2.3.8.jar bundled. To update to freemarker 2.3.13:

  1. Copy freemarker-2.3.13.jar into $ECLIPSE_INSTALLATION/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker_1.0.0.GA, and remove the freemarker-2.3.8.jar in there.
  2. Edit META-INF/MANIFEST.MF to replace the reference to “freemarker-2.3.8.jar” with “freemarker-2.3.13.jar”.
  3. Restart Eclipse with the “-clean” command line option. This is important because otherwise the Eclipse OSGI engine will keep using cached bundle data which is stale now.