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does eclipse work with clearcase? [message #165798] Tue, 15 August 2006 08:46 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: Alex.Blanco.motorola.com

just installed 3.2 on a linux x86 machine. we are using clearcase. I
brought up eclipse from within a clearcase view. I give it a workspace
directory (outside of clearcase or within). Everything works fine until I
exit and try eclipse again, then it tells me the workspace is in use or
cannot be created. I cannot see the workspace in the filesystem. if i do
this while NOT in a clearcase view, it works fine.

thanks for any help.
Re: does eclipse work with clearcase? [message #165864 is a reply to message #165798] Tue, 15 August 2006 10:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jefmyers.us.ibm.com

Alex,

Eclipse creates a .lock file in the .metadata directory when a workspace
is in use, and that file is removed when Eclipse exits. Clearcase may be
preventing Eclipse from removing that file if it is under source
control, so it's found the next time Eclipse starts, giving you that
warning.

Are you sure this is how you want to use Eclipse with Clearcase? The
workspace's .metadata folder contains a lot of state information that is
not usually stored in source control. You may want to investigate using
the ClearCase plug-ins available from IBM to control the projects and
resources within your workspace rather than simply checking the entire
workspace into source control.

Hope this helps,

- Jeff

Alex wrote:
> just installed 3.2 on a linux x86 machine. we are using clearcase. I
> brought up eclipse from within a clearcase view. I give it a workspace
> directory (outside of clearcase or within). Everything works fine until
> I exit and try eclipse again, then it tells me the workspace is in use
> or cannot be created. I cannot see the workspace in the filesystem. if
> i do this while NOT in a clearcase view, it works fine.
>
> thanks for any help.
>
Re: does eclipse work with clearcase? [message #165872 is a reply to message #165864] Tue, 15 August 2006 10:46 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: Alex.Blanco.motorola.com

There is something weird going on. I was not putting the workspace under
source control, only trying to use Eclipse to work on source files under
source control. The actual workspace was not even being created, however,
which is very odd. I just looked again now to be sure, and what it did
was create a diretory under where I told it to put the workspace called
"~", and under there, eclipse/<workspace> name. The .lock file is there,
but permissions look ok to remove it. I think the clearcase filesystem
interface must be confusing the Java file interfaces or how Eclipse is
using them.

I had found the clearcase plugin for Eclipse, but it looked like that
provided ways to manage source files in clearcase. If you have pointers
to other plugins that would be most useful.

Alex
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