This morning, I tried to get a coop student up and running on an older version of the Google App Engine for Eclipse plugin.
The following website and all related links appear to have been wiped off the face of the earth:
https://developers.google.com/eclipse/
Is this just down at the moment?
Is it possible to get older versions of the plugin?
While it is correct that the Google Plugin for Eclipse has been removed from Google's documentation, it is still available.
To install it, in Eclipse Neon, click "Install new Software" and add in this URL.
http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/4.6
Next, click through the dialogues to allow the installation, and restart Eclipse.
While Google has chosen to stop supporting this, I personally feel that the new Cloud Tools for Eclipse plugin is just not ready. Also, in the early days, JDO was what many people were using on top of the data layer, and since GAE has been around for 10+ years, many of us have a lot of infrastructure built on top of this that is costly to change. While it's still possible, in theory, to run the DataNucleus enhancer manually, it's a huge pain that requires in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of GAE and DataNucleus and knowledge of which dependencies go together. It may have been well-documented in the past, but today it is not.
But be warned, one of our engineers recently lost the ability to deploy the project to Google App Engine using the GPE and was forced to use the gcloud tool, which doesn't seem to have sensible defaults, like deploying to a non-default version and instead will deploy straight to default, well, by default. So we're writing a script around that command that will pass in --no-promote so it doesn't immediately start migrating traffic... Visit the gcloud reference for app deploy for more details. Good luck!
For more information on the install process, please see How to install Google Plugin for Eclipse on mkyong.com.
GPE is indeed gone. It was not up to date and many parts of it no longer functioned. Over the coming year, even more core functionality was going to break. We wouldn't be doing anyone any favors by letting them invest their time in a broken tool. This is doubly true for new users such as your students. There are some old GPE snapshots floating around here and there, but those don't really work with GCP in 2018.
That official documentation is most likely gone for good, the plugin was deprecated in favour of the Google Cloud Tools for Eclipse. From Migrating from the Google Plugin for Eclipse:
The Google Plugin for Eclipse is deprecated and will not be supported
beyond Eclipse 4.6 (Neon). It will be removed in early 2018.
This document describes how to migrate a project that uses the Google
Plugin for Eclipse to the supported tooling.
You can check the snapshots of the docs on the Wayback Machine, and maybe still find the matching code repositories, if they haven't been removed as well.
But it's probably a good idea to switch to the supported tools sooner than later, especially since they're just getting started.
Related: Migrating GAE project to Java 8 - get XML validation error after adding runtime property to appengine-web.xml
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Yesterday I downloaded the new Agile Toolkit 4.3 and found that the licensing and subscription model has been changed. Additionally a "developer sandbox" has been included which launches when the toolkit is first run and requires me to login with a registered account.
While I understand the reasons for these changes, and I'm fully supportive, the sandbox appears to be unnecessarily restrictive. However, there seems to be no easy way to bypass the sandbox, and logging in to the sandbox in a vanilla install of 4.3 leads to a screen where you are forced to choose between a pre-canned Admin or Frontend site.
The key reason for me to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 is the introduction of an Application class to support RESTful services. I have no need for either an Admin, nor a Frontend web user interface and yet the sandbox does not provide this option.
Is it possible to bypass the sandbox setup process and, if so, how would one go about doing this?
Looking at this in a different way, the folder structure of the ATK4 library seems to have changed under 4.3. Version 4.2 included documentation on the folder structure and how a developer should setup their application in relation to that structure. I have been unable to find corresponding documentation for Version 4.3 which would give clear guidance on how to build an application around the toolkit without relying on the included sandbox.
Hi Tim (i'm author of Agile Toolkit)
Agile Toolkit framework will continue to be available on github. You will find link to github on the bottom of the page, simply select branch 4.3. All of the documentation still applies and you can use the framework (you still need to respect the license). Github does not contain "admin" or "frontend", it is included for the convenience of new users.
The licensing terms has slightly changed, Agile Toolkit has always used AGPL and Commercial licensing. The reason to introduce the sandbox is because developers were not respecting the license terms. I also wanted to give easier ability to deploy projects for new PHP developers and for security it can only be done through sandbox.
Here is a blog-post outlining all of the changes: http://www4.agiletoolkit.org/blog/rebooting-agile-toolkit
The folder structure have changed, but it must still be compatible with the 4.2 branch. I've adopted the usage of "public" folders for improved security, but please do look into PathFinder documentation on how to customise folder structure.
Does Google still support SL4A for Android.
I have created an apk file for SL4A which is A6 using the old source code, could anyone kindly let me know if the source code for SL4A is available for the latest Android version(A16>).
Google never actually supported SL4A. The original developer, Damon Kohler, worked at Google, but SL4A was his own project.
I got the impression that Google weren't thrilled about SL4A on Android, for security, stability and performance reasons, but had no problem with Kohler working on it independently. I'm reading between the lines here though, so could be wrong.
The latest version of SL4A should work on more recent Android versions; you just wont have support for new Android API features.
There was at least one other lead maintainer after Kohler, but development was intermittent for a long time, and ground to a complete halt years ago. I know that they struggled to find Java developers that cared about Python on Android.
The SL4A Google Group still exists. You may still find some support there.
I'm running windows 7 and juno. Jdk 1.7, gwt 2.4, app engine 1.7.
I did the stockwatcher tutorial here and everything worked great. I then deployed it to app engine. Everything still worked great!
However, I then did the RPC part of the tutorial here. When I ran locally, I got a java.lang.VerifyError that I fixed by following this thread (putting -XX:-UseSplitVerifier in default VM arguments). It then worked locally and I deployed to app engine.
In app engine, I get a java.lang.UpsupportedClassVersionError. I found two threads that seem to have the same problem, here and here. I'm using a fresh install of windows 7 and the only jdk I downloaded was 1.7. Looking through eclipse, I see jre7, jdk 1.7, and app engine 1.7.
I read somewhere that app engine doesn't work with 1.7. However the app engine sdk version on the downloads page is 1.7 (I think that might be super recent) but I don't really know if those things are related. I went ahead and downloaded java 6 and app engine sdk 1.6.6, added jre6 to the installed jres, set the compiler compliance level to 1.6, changed it in my project too for good measure, and changed the default app engine sdk to 1.6.6.
Now I'm getting the error, "Java compiler level does not match the version of the installed java project facet." I googled the problem and everyone says to right click the project and change the facet, but I can't seem to find that option. I also have no idea if I'm going about this the right way. I'd much rather use the most recent versions of everything if possible. I also don't understand why app engine worked the first time with no RPC, but broke with the RPC.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! THANK YOU!!!
GAE does not currently support java 1.7, only 1.5 and 1.6 are supported. See the java docs for more information.
The relevant paragraph is the following:
App Engine runs Java applications using the Java 6 virtual machine (JVM). The App Engine SDK supports Java 5 and later, and the Java 6 JVM can use classes compiled with any version of the Java compiler up to Java 6.
The version of the GAE sdk you downloaded (1.7) isn't related in any way with the java version.
GAE is a sandbox environment. Currently it supports only Java 6. But to solve your problem, if you can downgrade your compile version to Java 6, you should be able to take advantage of GAE.
But if you want a standalone server environment without any restrictions, check other cloud platforms like heroku or cloudbee
Possibilities are
you don't have right JDK or
GAE you using that does not support 1.7
Open below file under .settings (use Navigator window) and change java project facet to 1.6
org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
After change you must close and restart the eclipse.
Currently ,... java 7 already supported
Warning: In a future release, support for Java 6 will be removed, so it is a good idea to start migrating to Java 7 now. If you've been using Java 6 and are interested in learning about possible issues migrating to Java 7, this white paper may be helpful.
from : https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview
Are there any TFS plugins available for the Force.com IDE? We are trying to centralise our CRM, and we would like to have TFS integration in Force.com IDE.
Which plugins are available? Which have you found most useful.
Does anyone know about this, which plugins are available?
We need this as we already have a historical repository in TFS with respect to the existing application framework. We are likely to add couple of more Force.com utilities to the framework. Hence it would be more mangeable to have a single repository rather having it on multiple ends. Any Idea will be appreciated
Well, force.com IDE is essentially a customized Eclipse so a TFS plugin for eclipse should in theory work, check here.
Though, I am not certain why you need it, SF sandbox itself in combination with Force.com IDE is a form of merge-based Apex source repository.
Just to clarify things first. The Force.com IDE is built as a plugin for the eclipse editor. There are many many other plugins for eclipse. What you want is http://www.teamprise.com/index.html - this however is not free. If you have an MSDN account it should be available to you already.
I use eclipse with the Force.com plugin and the subclipse (subversion) plugin side by side and it works quite well. So I'd assume with a bit of tinkering you can get teamprise working alongside the force.com plugin.
I am new to Eclipse plugin development. I am working to develop a plugin that needs to store large amount of data, as well as search and retrieve from them. I am wondering, if I can use a database for this having plugin dependency. Is there any database engine that comes as Eclipse plugin? I was looking at Apache Derby, but quite unsure about the possibility.
Please suggest.
I have been happily using Derby's Eclipse plug-in for data storage and retrieval. There is a good step-by-step tutorial that assumes very little prior knowledge. Follow these installation instructions, and you should be up and running fairly soon.
Once you get it installed in Eclipse, there is additional useful information. Launch Eclipse and bring up the Help for the Derby plug-ins. Help >> Help Contents>> Derby Plug-in User Guide.
For the Eclipse (Rich Client Platform) it does not matter where or how you store data. It is just a framework which helps deliver a rich client interface.
What other functionality will be required by the users of the data? Apart from getting new data in (is client application the right thing fro that anyway). And searching for certain data? If there is a lot of interaction with the data, draw some possible screens, to get an idea about how it should be implemented in eclipse (eclipse plugins).
There are several plug-ins / extensions which can help you getting the data storage functionality implemented.