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Reviving an old project [message #1699701]

Thu, 25 June 2015 22:48

Eclipse User

There is a procedure of how to know what version of eclipse and what plugins were used on a project?

I have an old project eclipse (to be deployed on Apache Tomcat (my only reference)) and I need to know which version of eclipse was used and what plugins in order to revive it.

[Updated on: Thu, 25 June 2015 22:48] by Moderator

Re: Reviving an old project [message #1699839 is a reply to message #1699701]

Sat, 27 June 2015 00:09

Eclipse User

On 06/25/2015 08:48 PM, Ricardo A. Glez. Gazapo wrote:
> There is a procedure of how to know what version of eclipse and what
> plugins were used on a project?
>
> I have an old project eclipse (to be deployed on Apache Tomcat (my only
> reference)) and I need to know wich version of eclised was used and what
> plugins in order to revive it.

Is there a reason for being so "historical"? Why not just bring it up in
the latest Eclipse and one of the later Tomcats? The only way that won't
work is if the application was specifically tapping into Tomcat
internals that have changed since it was done. In my experience, it's
unlikely that this would have been the case and equally unlikely that
Tomcat would be the reason it won't work using "modern" tools.

Or, did you try and already know it won't work?

Re: Reviving an old project [message #1700034 is a reply to message #1699839]

Mon, 29 June 2015 14:38

Eclipse User

The application is on production since 2007. I just did what you suggested, but i get so many errors that make me think if may be is more simple replicate the scenario were the code was made.

Re: Reviving an old project [message #1700069 is a reply to message #1700034]

Mon, 29 June 2015 19:24

Eclipse User

On 06/29/2015 12:38 PM, Ricardo A. Glez. Gazapo wrote:
> The application is on production since 2007. I just did what you
> suggested, but i get so many errors that make me think if may be is more
> simple replicate the scenario were the code was made.

List a few of those errors here for us. You mean missing symbol errors,
right?

Re: Reviving an old project [message #1700190 is a reply to message #1700069]

Tue, 30 June 2015 10:50

Eclipse User

Attached an image of some of the erros:
index.php/fa/22358/0/

Attachment: errors.PNG
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Re: Reviving an old project [message #1700228 is a reply to message #1700190]

Tue, 30 June 2015 23:21

Eclipse User

On 06/30/2015 08:50 AM, Ricardo A. Glez. Gazapo wrote:
> Attached an image of some of the erros:

I'm unfamiliar with these APIs, but I can confidently state that they
have nothing to do with Tomcat. Tomcat-Eclipse is not your problem.
You're simply missing some other library, likely a sort of presentation API.

Your old project should contain some clues. I'm not seeing enough of the
error messages to know what the package names are so I've been unable to
ascertain what library is missing.

Re: Reviving an old project [message #1700329 is a reply to message #1700228]

Wed, 01 July 2015 17:44

Eclipse User

You are right, the errors presented are from a library specific to the project.
I went through the code and most of the errors are missing references to STRUCT.

I'm trying to follow the path of using the latest eclipse to compile the project. I'll try to keep posting progress.

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