When you have lots of developers needing a homogeneous set of Eclipse plugins, it makes sense to provide a local mirror of the necessary update sites for easy provisioning. I have written a simple shell script for this which I put in crontab for periodic execution: Dirty Code #!/bin/sh ECLIPSE_HOME=/opt/eclipse REPO_HOME=/var/www/p2repo JAVA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.acme.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128" UPDATE_SITES="http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/ http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x/ [...]

Update: it seems like a lot of people find this useful. With the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, xulrunner-1.9.2 is in the main repository. Because of this, just uninstall xulrunner-1.9.1 and you’re done. I like living on the edge: I use Ubuntu Lucid and Eclipse 3.6M5 on my x86-64 notebook. Since the 25th [...]

I recently took the plunge back into 64-bit Ubuntu after I originally ditched it two and a half years ago mostly because of desktop Java stuff. I am now using Eclipse 3.6M2 so that compatibility with GTK+ 2.18 is good, but I’ve encountered a problem with native proxy support: my proxy settings were completely ignored [...]

Since GTK+ 2.18 has introduced Client Side Windows, a couple of problems have appeared in Eclipse 3.5. One of them was resolved in GTK+ 2.18.0 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589963), the other one needs fixing at the SWT-level (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287307) Since I don’t want to run Eclipse 3.6 milestones yet, I created a small diff between the two SWT versions [...]

During the Eclipse 3.5 milestones Eclipse gained support for getting proxy settings from Gnome. When 3.5 was finally released this feature was disabled because of Bug 268321 As this bug seems to affect Eclipse running against older versions of GTK+, it is possible to reenable it by adding the following line to eclipse.ini: -Dorg.eclipse.core.net.enableGnome