try the spring STS distribution of eclipse - maven ships built in and
has worked better for me this way than discrete installations of all
the different plugins. you can install the glassfish plugins manually
later if needed (don't have the link handy but the update site won't
work apparently)
for memory, you might be hosed.
On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:40, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set my environment in order to compile Glassfish v3
> trunk from a
> [i]svn checkout https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/glassfish-svn/trunk/v3[/
> i]
> to track some troubles I am facing.
>
> For checkout and maven compilation from command line, no trouble.
> Everything builds smootly, provided I let the computer the three
> hours it needs for that.
>
> But when entering Eclipse 3.5.1, this is another story...
>
> I started with this Eclipse.ini file:
> [i]-startup
> plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
> --launcher.library
> plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
> -product
> org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
> --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> 384M
> -vm
> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_17\bin
> org.eclipse.platform
> --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> 384m
> -vmargs
> -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
> -Xms40m
> -Xmx1250m[/i]
>
> This is the hugiest environment (in term of memory) my Eclipse
> allows to start with (I have a Windows 7 computer 32 bits with 4GB,
> but it seems that I can't ask for more than 2 GB per application at
> a time?).
> But after a short while Eclipse ends in a Out of Memory, one way or
> another. After having to do an Automatic Build of the projects.
>
> I have under my Eclipse a Maven plugin. I think this is the one
> everybody have, and know as "[i]the worst plugin created since the
> beginning of the humanity history.[/i]" (if I remember well its name
> is [i]m2eclipse[/i], but you will reconize it for sure if I tell you
> that it is one whose "Updates Indexes" task started at launching
> often takes hours and hangs). I guess this plugin may have a
> responsability in my troubles.
>
> What are known versions of IDE(s) that are truly able to manage the
> Glassfish project?
> And how shall I set them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Grunt.
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