Comments on: Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede Review — Bloated and dissappointing

By: The DarkMaster

The DarkMaster — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:38:32 +0000

I simply can’t agree more with you… Eclipse is a big, fat, incredible mess of code tryng to do something usefull and unable to doanything well. Software update? Forget that, is useless with a nonsense interface. 1GB of virtual memory in use to edit JSP code? And the dependency hell? I do not need a 50MB unknown lib for some obscure plugin on memory to edit html code, and if I try to remove then, Eclipse dies.

By: George

George — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:03:45 +0000

Ganymede 3.4 is not good for me as well, I was happy with 3.3. I was wondering if it was something with my laptop(2GB RAM), but now I understand the reason! Anyone tried M2 Eclipse plugin in 3.3? Thanks Priayatam for posting this

By: Priyatam

Priyatam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:57:00 +0000

welcome to the eclipseBloatedWorld fellas

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:54:23 +0000

I took a look at it. Hibernate console didn’t work, as far as I know it still doesn’t unless you want to build the latest from source or something. I found the update manager to be worse, the link for the update site becomes the name for the update site and I couldn’t change it?

So I went back to Europa, JBoss tools has pretty good facelets support although it’s mighty annoying
not being able to switch off the preview part of the editor and just toggle it on and off when needed.

And why can’t I switch off validation for individual files? Just because the editor mistakenly thinks a H2 doesn’t have a closing tag why should I have to put up with a big red cross on my app for something so trivial?

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:40:33 +0000

has anyone tried the Eclipse Ganymede javascript editor?? It crashes all the time. Sometimes it just hangs forever!! Plus intellisense is provided only for XML DOM, HTML DOM which deveopers use most often does not have intellisense.
This is the first feature of Ganymede i have used and am totally dissapointed.

By: deano7000

deano7000 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:58:53 +0000

I’m having the same problem under windows. On a fresh Ganymede install, I only have three perspectives – none of which is Java or JEE.

By: Paolo D

Paolo D — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:29:19 +0000

I fully agree on every single point you wrote (apart your consideration on myeclipse). Ganymede is simply the worst eclipse version of ever: simply unusable.
i am also worried by the future of eclipse. I think i’ll give a try to idea … back to the past.

By: Priyatam

Priyatam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:44:39 +0000

that’s strange — it seems to work on my macbook pro atleast. Did you try a fresh install again?

By: Dave K

Dave K — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:41:47 +0000

The Ganymede JEE package simply does not work on Mac OS X Leopard on a G4 17″ Powerbook. The entire thing downloaded intact, it runs, and there are only 3 perspectives accessible: Resources, Team Synch, and Debug. No J2EE Perspective and no, I am not kidding, no Java perspective. It defies belief that anyone ever ran this even once and gave it the most cursory glance before releasing it. All the necessary files are there, it simply does not work.

By: Priyatam

Priyatam — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:57:42 +0000

True, it does but ironically I still use it. There isn’t much choice out there. As for Maven Plugin, I decided long back — to run maven via command line .