Europa to Ganymede, a flawless Eclipse upgrade
I’ve been burned by Eclipse upgrades before, especially when it comes to running local tomcat servers in the IDE. I think as recent as 3.1 to 3.2 and 3.2 to 3.3, this or that got moved and all my tomcat servers disappeared, or they were there and they just didn’t want to start. I’m pleased to report that this upgrade was uneventful for me. I was able to start all my servers and run my applications with no issues, my eclipse settings were preserved for the most part, with a couple of perspective issues here and there where the perspective reset itself to the default.
Recommended steps to CYA during an eclipse upgrade:
- Back up your old eclipse directory, just rename the folder
- Make a copy of your existing workspace
- Download and unzip eclipse in the same spot the old version was
- Download and unzip any plugins you had previously and were using into the new version of Eclipse, I use PHPEclipse and jadclipse, neither of these have new versions but the plugins worked fine in Ganymede
- Start eclipse, check your servers and apps make sure they compile and run, any sign of trouble just roll on back to the old version of Eclipse and the old version of your workspace
Piece of cake, right. Hopefully your experience is as uneventful as mine.
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