[wtp-dev] Good news for running WTP on Eclipse 4.0

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks to the committers for fixing
the few compile errors when building against 4.0 this week. Such as, see

http://build.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/wtpe4-R3.3.0-I/20100812113302/I-3.3.0-20100812113302/

And while we haven't done unit tests
or full smoke tests yet, we do have some success to report, and 
follow up from our status meeting today.


As mentioned in meeting, Carl was able
to get through the JEE smoke test scenarios, except for some 
the editors not opening automatically
when they should (such as when creating a dynamic web project). 
We think this is the same bug reported
and being tracked in bug 318034
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=318034

Valentin got to the bottom of his start-up
problem by finding this known issue with 
proxy authentication and secure storage
and the work around in bug 320932 worked for him. 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320932

Just wanted to let everyone know it's
worth trying out,  with the limitations above. While I'm sure there
will be other compatibility bugs found, 
its good to know the basics are working.
In theory, our 3.7 M1 build will be binary compatible with the Eclipse
4.0 Platform
(thanks to those quick compile-time
fixes) but not sure anyone has tried that yet. 

Much thanks to you early adopters that
got this going!