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WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199479]

Fri, 07 September 2007 08:27

Eclipse User

I must be missing something pretty simple. I'm working through the WTP book
and got to page 73 where one opens the "Database Explorer" view.....and
there's no "Database Explorer" view in the collection of views in "Show
View". (Nor, "Data" catagory, nor "Data Output" view). Hmm.

It is pretty early in the morning for me, but I did check that I had
everything installed (J2EE Project SDK 2.0.0, Web Standard Tools Project SDK
2.0.0). I'm running Europa 3.3.

Any hints?

Thanks

--
Daniel Ford
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199489 is a reply to message #199479]

Fri, 07 September 2007 08:45

Eclipse User

Hello, Daniel.

Check that "Data tools" are installed (there should be about 50 entries
with plugin id starting with "org.eclipse.datatools" in help->about
eclipse sdk->plugin details; actually precise number of entries is not
important while it is more that 0 :) ).

Also check that you start eclipse on jdk 5.0 (i'm pretty sure that you
use 5.0, but who knows... )

Daniel Ford wrote:
> I must be missing something pretty simple. I'm working through the WTP book
> and got to page 73 where one opens the "Database Explorer" view.....and
> there's no "Database Explorer" view in the collection of views in "Show
> View". (Nor, "Data" catagory, nor "Data Output" view). Hmm.
>
> It is pretty early in the morning for me, but I did check that I had
> everything installed (J2EE Project SDK 2.0.0, Web Standard Tools Project SDK
> 2.0.0). I'm running Europa 3.3.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks
>

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199496 is a reply to message #199489]

Fri, 07 September 2007 09:10

Eclipse User

Vadim,
thanks for the quick reply. The data tools plugins are there v
1.0.0.200706071 and I'm running JDK 1.5.

Dan

--
Daniel Ford
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA
"Vadim Dmitriev" <dmgloss@mail.ru> wrote in message
news:fbrh8f$85a$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hello, Daniel.
>
> Check that "Data tools" are installed (there should be about 50 entries
> with plugin id starting with "org.eclipse.datatools" in help->about
> eclipse sdk->plugin details; actually precise number of entries is not
> important while it is more that 0 :) ).
>
> Also check that you start eclipse on jdk 5.0 (i'm pretty sure that you
> use 5.0, but who knows... )
>
>
> Daniel Ford wrote:
>> I must be missing something pretty simple. I'm working through the WTP
>> book
>> and got to page 73 where one opens the "Database Explorer" view.....and
>> there's no "Database Explorer" view in the collection of views in "Show
>> View". (Nor, "Data" catagory, nor "Data Output" view). Hmm.
>>
>> It is pretty early in the morning for me, but I did check that I had
>> everything installed (J2EE Project SDK 2.0.0, Web Standard Tools Project
>> SDK
>> 2.0.0). I'm running Europa 3.3.
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>> Thanks
>>

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199504 is a reply to message #199496]

Fri, 07 September 2007 12:50

Eclipse User

Are there "connectivity"->"Data Source Explorer" view? It's the only
view that Data tools add if no perquisites except eclipse 3.3/JDK5.0 are
satisfied.
If there are no such a view, maybe datatools are just disabled. You can
check it help->software updates->manage configuration.
If view is there, then maybe EMF/XSD or GEF is not installed.
I'm afraid I can't recommend you anything more than that. However it
looks more like DT problem that WTP. Maybe on DT's newsgroup you will
get more help.

Daniel Ford wrote:
> Vadim,
> thanks for the quick reply. The data tools plugins are there v
> 1.0.0.200706071 and I'm running JDK 1.5.
>
> Dan
>

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199519 is a reply to message #199504]

Fri, 07 September 2007 17:30

Eclipse User

>Are there "connectivity"->"Data Source Explorer" view? It's the only
>view that Data tools add if no perquisites except eclipse 3.3/JDK5.0 are
>satisfied.

The Database Explorer view was renamed with the move of the WTP data tools
into the DTP project. In 2.0 the view is the Connectivity -> Data Source
Explorer view as Vadim noted above.

Lawrence

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199548 is a reply to message #199519]

Mon, 10 September 2007 09:23

Eclipse User

That explains everything. I did come across this view and it looked like a
good candidate, but given that I'm a newbie to WTP and the book was
published in May of this year and there was nothing in the Errata for it, I
figured I was just missing something.

Thanks

--
Daniel Ford
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA
<lmandel@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:fbsft8$qee$1@build.eclipse.org...
> >Are there "connectivity"->"Data Source Explorer" view? It's the only
>>view that Data tools add if no perquisites except eclipse 3.3/JDK5.0 are
>>satisfied.
>
> The Database Explorer view was renamed with the move of the WTP data tools
> into the DTP project. In 2.0 the view is the Connectivity -> Data Source
> Explorer view as Vadim noted above.
>
> Lawrence

Re: WTP Book: Can't find Database Explorer view [message #199555 is a reply to message #199548]

Mon, 10 September 2007 14:36

Eclipse User

"...but given that I'm a newbie to WTP and the book was published in May
of this year and there was nothing in the Errata for it, I figured I was
just missing something."

As the lead time for publishing a book is several months, the book is
based on WTP 1.5. Most of the tools should still be named the same and
function the same. You just happened on a big change in the data tools
moving to a new top level project.

Lawrence

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