The first time I heard about Google Web Toolkit, I was excited. I immediately downloaded it; wrote few samples and found that it was really a nice piece of software. But it lacked one thing - IDE integration. Although “GWT was intentionally designed to work well in any IDE”, there was no direct support for GWT in any IDE. I thought how about writing an Eclipse plugin for that? I’m not an Eclipse plugin developer. I was a pure C++ guy who has jumped into several layers of J2EE and .NET and settled as a mainline developer in a top SOA product. Eclipse plugin development is something I’ve to learn. I decided to give a try.
Result? Googlipse. That is my first plugin. With over 25,000 downloads and counting, it generated a good amount of interest. So I get bugs (yeah, sometimes I write embarrassing code) and people extend it. It was a wonderful experience in learning Eclipse and gave me a better understanding about the Open Source from the contributing perspective. Googlipse has shifted my career and now my day job is also plugin development. Besides all this, I’ve to kill Googlipse. Why? Because of the name!
I was over enthusiastic that I coined the name by joining two names: Google+Eclipse. The logo is also the same way, Google colored text in an Eclipse background. I thought who cares about the name. I was wrong.
Google’s legal department had “some trademark concerns about the name”. I was pointed to Google Branding Guidelines. So I decided to change the name and logo. Hmmmm. That means its virtually creating a new product (at least to the users who don’t worry about the code!) That is what I’ve done now. I’ve created a brand new product called “Cypal Studio for GWT“. It is hosted @ Google Code. Its essentially the same code base (with the same Apache 2.0 license) but with little changes and few bug fixes.
So what happens to Googlipse now? Its dead. Means there will be no more bug fixes, no more features. The existing downloads & code base will remain there @ SourceForge. The home page will be soon pointing to new product’s site (which is under development). Thus ends the story of my first Eclipse Plugin.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I installed “Cypal Studio” by downloading the zip from http://code.google.com/p/cypal-studio/, unzipping it, copying the features files to my Eclipse features directory, and copying the plugins files to my Eclipse plugins directory. I then restarted Eclipse and selected Window…Preferences…, but no entry for configuring Cypal Studio appears there. Any idea what I’m missing?
May 21st, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I have the same problem…
May 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Can you please log an issue @ http://code.google.com/p/cypal-studio/issues/list and provide more details like your Configuration Details (Help->About Eclipse->Configuration Details)
May 29th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
July 4th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Had same problems in windows environment using cypal:
Check this:
c:\eclipse\plugins\in.cypal.studio.gwt.core_1.0.0.200704260132\plugin.xml
you should have following lines:
July 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
July 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
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July 4th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Pasted xml code and it doesn’t apear… Check link: http://code.google.com/p/cypal-studio/issues/detail?id=13&can=2&q=
December 19th, 2007 at 8:22 am
you need to enable the plugin via Help->Software updates->Manage Configuration. then choose so view all disabled plugin. Choose cypal and enable it. Restart your ide and you can config cypal for sure.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
i did everything written here: http://grprakash.googlepages.com/gwttutorialwithgooglipse
install the plug in (it seams to work)
created the new project
created the new module
edit the html
edit the javafile
but then i get this error when i’m tring to run under “GWT Hosted mode application” (i selected the project and the module)
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.(StandardService.java:56)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.tomcat.EmbeddedTomcatServer.(EmbeddedTomcatServer.java:189)
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.tomcat.EmbeddedTomcatServer.start(EmbeddedTomcatServer.java:62)
at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.startUp(GWTShell.java:742)
at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.run(GWTShell.java:539)
at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.main(GWTShell.java:321)
it seams it check a main class… but with gwt we don’t need a main class… where’s the error?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:31 am
My guess would be that you don’t have Apache logging in your class path. It can be found in commons-logging-api.jar that can be downloaded here http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_logging.cgi
March 12th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I had the same problem as Glen. I downloaded the commons-logging-1.1.1.jar.jar file, added it to my path, and it made no difference.
Please help.
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I’m using Eclipse Platform Version: 3.3.0 Build id: M20070921-1145
gwt-windows-1.4.61, and
a freshly downloaded version of Cypal.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
You can remove the Tomcat library in your build path and it´s gonna work!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
As Michel suggested, I removed the Tomcat library and my app worked, i.e. I didn’t get “org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory” related exception. However, this isn’t really a good solution is it, since eventually I’m likely to write code that needs that library. Comments please. Thanks