Upgrading eclipse
Ok,
So recently I've migrated some of my projects to a new machine, and downloaded the newest version of Eclipse. I've done this before and knew that the .metadata folder was no good so I blew that away before anything. Then open Eclipse point to the workspace and create the new project. So Eclipse sees the .Project & .classpath files and loads the build path and everything. It was simple to recreate the dependencies because I had a JAR_RESOURCES variable that pointed to my jar directory. So all I had to do was define that variable and my build path should be set right? Wrong. Look at this error:

Here is the error in the Problems view:
So here is the line in my .classpath file that is doing this:
I had to change this line to read:
Then I cleaned the project and it build fine. I figured this out by creating a new project in new workspace and examining its .classpath file. I'm not exactly sure how my original .classpath file got screwed up, but it somehow did. I think that it should have been fixed automagically, or idlest I should have been told how to fix it. What would have happened if I wasn't that familiar with Eclipse? I would have been up the creek without a paddle. I imagine I'd have to delete the projects and all the files associated with them and re-define everything. Idlest the problem is not fixed...no I have to see if my Ant will allow me to build it, something tells me I'll have problems with that too [see previous blog related to that :)]
- posted by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi @ 1:07 AM