Three Wise Men

Eclipse Galileo and SVN support

Like many Java developers I had to take a look at Eclipse Galileo. My interest lie in how fast I can migrate from Eclipse Europa to new Galileo version.

Installation was as simple as in previous version. Extract an archive file to a directory. Simple eh ? Let’s see what will be broken. Upon first start Galileo tries to move my default workspace. Well I choose my old workspace and by some magic it was opened without problems. Or did it? Recompilation and reformatting took about a minute or two¹. After that everything worked smoothly. Almost everything.  Project team collaboration vanished.

“GULP”, was my first reaction. CVS support is included, but who really uses CVS nowadays? So I found out that setting up SVN in Eclipse Galileo was not as simple as I thought it to be.

1. Help->Install New Software
2. Choose to work with Galileo – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
3. Unfold Collaboration
4. Choose Subversive SVN Team Provider (Incubation)
5. I employ you to restart Eclipse and don’t use any plugin at this point since they will not work and you will get a message which is similar to this: 0x0040010b: Obtain Project Name’ operation finished with error: Selected SVN connector library is not available or cannot be loaded …’. Instead you rather install a connector library.
6. Help->Install New Software
7. Add a site
8. I used: http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/ , but you can probably use any other that has SVNKit or JavaHL connector
9. Unfold Subversive SVN Connectors
10. Select Subversive SVN Connectors, SVNKit (1.3.0), JavaHL (1.6.0) and it’s native libraries.
11. Restart Eclipse
12. Configure SVN Connector by specifying the connector in Window->Preferences->Team->SVN->SVN Connector.

And there you have it. Eclipse Galileo with SVN support in all its splendor.

1. it is a huge project tree I am working with [↩]