GGTS 3.0.0 installed but nothing appears

[Mase]

I installed GGTS 3.0.0 in a new Juno Eclipse and everything seems to go well, reboot and there is no indication that there are any tools available for my Grails project? Do I have to do anything to get it activated? Is there an Open Perspective-> Grails?

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

How did you install GGTS 3.0.0 into a new Juno Eclipse? Using the Marketplace?
You should be able to see a new perspective "Grails", the "Dashboard" (the SpringSource icon) in the toolbar, etc. When you go to the about dialog and take a look at the installation details, is the Grails IDE feature listed there?

-Martin

[Mase]

Hey!

How did you install GGTS 3.0.0 into a new Juno Eclipse? Using the Marketplace?
You should be able to see a new perspective "Grails", the "Dashboard" (the SpringSource icon) in the toolbar, etc. When you go to the about dialog and take a look at the installation details, is the Grails IDE feature listed there?

-Martin

I installed into a new Juno Eclipse using the Marketplace. When I look in Windows->Open Perspective->Other there is no Grails entry. In the Installation Details it says Grails IDE 3.0.0 is installed. Not sure if I need to do anything else to turn it on?

Mase

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

I tried to install GGTS from the Eclipse Marketplace into a fresh Eclipse JEE Juno and that worked nicely. After the restart I can see the SpringSource logo in the toolbar (for the Dashboard) and I can switch to the Grails perspective.

Did you choose the right entry from the Marketplace (the one for Juno)? If so, I expect there is a conflicting plugin installed in your environment. Could that be?

To analyze that, you would need to go to your console view, open an OSGi Host Concole, and type "ss" (for short status) and take a look at the bundles called "org.grails.ide.eclipse...". What does the output says about those bundles?

-Martin

[Mase]

Yes I installed the correct version from the Market Place, in fact when I go back and list installed the GGTS for Juno and not for Indigo has a button that says "Uninstall", so the market place software thinks it is installed.

I went to the OSGI Host Console and did a "ss", but there is no entry for org.grails...... at all anywhere in the list? If there is a conflicting plugin I have no idea how to tell that is the case, is there something I can look at?

Mase

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Mase!

That is kind of strange... Can you take a look into the "plugins" directory of your installation to see if there are "org.grails..." plugins there? And did you try to start Eclipse with the "-clean" option?

-Martin

[Mase]

I checked in my /opt/eclipse/plugins and there are no plugins for org.grails at all. However when I finally found them they are located in my /home/mase/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.0.1473617060/plugins and there is a features and p2 and configuration directories there? I am not sure why it put them there and not into my eclipse home in /opt/eclipse?

I tried a eclipse -clean and there is no difference

[Kris De Volder]

How did you install Eclipse? If you installed Eclipse from the Ubuntu Repos... I advise against this. It is better to download and install Eclipse from an official Eclipse download site. E.g. from eclipse.org.

Or even easier is to download and install a bundled GGTS which alreayd has Groovy and Grails tools installed.

I'm not exactly sure what is going wrong with your installation. But we have had reports in the past of problems with people using Eclipse's from the Ubuntu repos. These repackaged versions may seem to work fine at first but they are sometimes incomplete. They are also setup to be shared among multiple users. But this means that the 'central place' where you typically install other plugins and extensions is not write-accessible. This creates problems for certain kinds of extensions known as 'feature patches' (and GGTS has some).

It is still very strange that your installation seems to have worked without any errors, yet the plugins are not enabled when you run.

I will try to reproduce your problems shortly, but in the mean time if you installed from Ubuntu Repo, could you please try again with an 'official' distribution of Eclipse instead. Install this in your user home directory. Don't try to make it a 'shared' setup.

Kris

[Kris De Volder]

I just did the following

1) download Eclipse-Juno for Java developers from eclipse.org
2) unzip this into my /tmp folder for testing.
3) start the unzipped executable at "/tmp/eclipse/eclipse"
4) install GGTS from Eclipse marketplace

This seems to work fine for me. I have done a quick smoke test of the resulting Eclipse and was able to create a simple grails app without any problems. Groovy and Grails tooling seem installed properly.

[Mase]

I actually did a very similar install - on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit version

1) download Eclipse-Juno for Java developers from eclipse.org
2) unzip this into my /opt folder for testing.
3) start the unzipped executable at "/opt/eclipse/eclipse"
4) install GGTS from Eclipse marketplace

And no tooling appears in the menus yet is says it is installed in the plugins. Are you testing on 12.04 64 bit? I need to have different versions of eclipse installed in my /opt directory as we use different application plugins.