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Getting Designer to Work with Eclipse

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24 October 2006 - 11:00pm
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Problem

A Forum reader recently asked:

"I'm trying to install Designer 1.2 into an existing Eclipse install. I've tried using the documentation, but the error I get when trying to create a new IDM project is:

"The selected wizard could not be started - com.novell.designer.idm.projectview was unable to load class" etc.

Has anyone been able to get Designer 1.2 to work in an existing Eclipse install?"

And the reader solved the problem this way ...

Solution

After spending a lot of time working on this, I found the solution. Here's what I had to do - very simple, actually:

1. Make sure the stand-alone Designer is NOT installed on the system.

2. From the eclipse.org site, download either of the following:

  • Windows: wtp-all-in-one-sdk-R-1.5.0-200606281455-win32.zip
  • Linux: wtp-all-in-one-sdk-R-1.5.0-200606281455-linux-gtk.tar.gz

3. Unzip into the directory of your choosing.

4. From the Designer 1.2/features directory, unzip the 4 files, keeping the directory structure. The files are:

  • com.novell.designer.idm.enhancements.fanoutdriver_1.0.1.zip
  • designer-plugins.zip
  • prov-plugins.zip
  • xml-editor.zip

This creates a separate eclipse directory with a "features" and "plugins" subdirectory.

5. Copy the contents of the Designer "features" and "plugins" subdirectories
into the main Eclipse "features" and "plugins" subdirectories.

That's it!


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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