Thursday, June 24, 2010

Installing eclipse plugins into RAD

With eclipse 3.4 and above it's simple. You have to find the shared eclipse install, usually in an IBM folder under SDP, and unzip the downloaded plugin into the "dropin" folder. Seems simple enough, but I keep on forgetting. Given that I am sucking at blogging as of late, I figure I could use this as a place to keep notes.

I just installed the eclemma plugin into RAD 7.5 and, for once, it was simple to do. Yay!

Updated 3:34pm

...or not. Tried installing the PMD plugin. It didn't work from the drop in folder. I had to copy the files directly into the SDP directory. Oh well. If anyone is wondering why I'm doing this manually, for some reason, I get a 403 forbidden response when I run it from the machine inside the government network, so it isn't able to download the plugins when I try to do it from the software updater. When I'm on a personal network, it works fine. Might be a proxy setup thing, but I don't feel like figuring it out.