Lóránd Somogyi

After a lot of work and some traveling I’m back, and I’m about to write about how do I manage to use Mac for Java development. (Note: This is the last part of the Apple Project series.)

First of all, let me describe what I use and how do I/we use it.

Eclipse is our choice of IDE. We use Subversion as SCM, Maven as a build system/dependency management/reporting/documentation/etc.. Beside these we use, (just to mention few that could be in relation with OS):

• AspectJ
• Spring
• Hibernate for JPA
• TestNG

Primarily we are building web applications, backed with RDBMS – so I need a some local database for my Mac, and our choice of RDBMS is PostgreSQL, but we use Oracle and DB2 as well.

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Had enough. P2 gave me just too much headache.

Today I removed P2 from my two production Eclipse installation. What a relief…

Update Manager (UM) works fine, as it worked in 3.3. Installed AJDT, Q4E, SpringIDE, TestNG, AnyEdit, … without any issue.

At my last few tries, I managed to install AJDT successfully, but after it I locked myself out. At next install P2 were missing AspectJ feature, and were willing to do nothing.

I read somewhere that P2 will not let you install uninstallable or wrong software… well… no comment.

I still beleave P2 is “not an evil”, and it will turn out to be great. But now I think it came in to suddenly and with lot of missing features/bugs. – I know this is the best way to test it… , and I usually happily volunteer in these kind of testings, but not arbitrarily.