[wtp-dev] Testing from Europa Discovery Site -- without JDT!!!

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just wanted to remind everyone to
do some testing with Installs from the Europa Discovery Site. 
Starting Wednesday the (built in) "Europa
Discovery Site" should point to a complete set of RC2 of plugins.


Minimum:

One of the new things in RC2 is the
ability to install WST without JDT! 
This has been much requested by non-Java
web developers, and has taken a number of 
teams cooperating to accomplish. 

To do that level of testing you should
install (only) the Eclipse Platform (not the whole Eclipse SDK). And, I'd
suggest the RC2 version, 
even though RC3 is available. (RC3 platform
should work too ... but, if bugs found, you might want to be sure it wasn't
just from using an RC3 base, with 
RC2 plugins). 

For example, pick a Platform Binary
from 
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3RC2-200705251350/index.php
then "find updates", pick
wst, then "select required". 
The result is a "tiny" install
of just 70 Megs, and should give you the 
ability to create and "run web
pages" on HTTP servers. 

Maximum: 

On the other extreme, I'd recommend
every one try installing everything from RC2 Europa, and then running through

any of your normal web development scenarios
to be sure they still work as expected and there's no undue 
interference from elsewhere.  

Thanks all