G T Smith wrote:
AFAIK Eclipse does not exclude the capability to work with other Java JRE versions for development work than the version of JRE eclipse is actually running on, I suspect Joachim is already aware of this. (BTW This is not something I have ever tried, like to get feedback if anyone has, I would also really like to know how the debugger handles this).
My experience is: reasonably well, as long as one stays within the same major version. With Europe, I couldn't properly debug 1.4 programs as long as 1.5 was used as Eclipse's JVM. I haven't tried that yet with Ganymede, maybe that's a nice thing to do over the weekend. But the main problem was not debugging, but some plugins. I remember that I had problems with the Maven2 plugin and that was a showstopper. :-(
The issues with 64 bit Eclipse are well known and are very irritating, I believe Ganymede is more stable on Java 6 (and it is also not well buried in an obscure place on the eclipse site any more). There are some sneaky Java 6 requirements for certain bits of Eclipse so ruling out 6 may not be wise.
Thanks for that hint, I'll pay attention. I'm using Ganymede under 1.5 with either Maven2 or lots of libraries from jpackage.org since 3 months (mostly J2EE and JSF development), without much problems. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org