Is there a way to get jadclipse working with Eclipse 3.4?

Question

I\'m a big fan of the Jadclipse plugin and I\'d really like to upgrade to Eclipse 3.4 but the plugin currently does not work. Are there any other programs out there that let you

Answer 1

Read attentively the documentation ... :

1. The JadClipse plug-in is not activated when I start Eclipse. You'll need to launch Eclipse with the -clean flag to allow the environment to detect the plug-in. Subsequent launching of Eclipse won't require the -clean flag. eclipse -clean

2. The Eclipse Class File Viewer instead of the JadClipse Class File Viewer is opened. Go to Window > Preferences... > General > Editors > File Associations and make sure that the JadClipse Class File Viewer has the DEFAULT file association for *.class files. ( - press Default button !!!)

It really helps :)))

Answer 2

I have it working on Eclipse as well:

Version: 3.4.1 Build id: M20080911-1700

The plug-in install steps are straightforward - http://jadclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Installation

I had to download JAD itself from a mirror site (original site is gone?) - http://www.varaneckas.com/jad

I'm on a Windows machine, which might matter.

Answer 3

using this update site with myeclipse 8.5 seems to work fine:

http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.3

FYI Jeff

Answer 4

I'm successfully using JadClipse with Eclipse 3.4

Eclipse 3.4.0.I20080617-2000
JadClipse 3.3.0

It just works!

EDIT: Actually, see OlegSOM's answer below for the additional steps that you might need to remember to take, if like me you forget to read documentation sometimes!

Answer 5

I can't get to make the plugin work with ganymede (linux version). When setting the jadclipse class viewer i get the following error in the log file of the workspace (.metadata/.log)

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError
        at net.sf.jadclipse.JadclipseClassFileEditor.doOpenBuffer(JadclipseClassFileEditor.java:101)
        at net.sf.jadclipse.JadclipseClassFileEditor.doSetInput(JadclipseClassFileEditor.java:45)
        at net.sf.jadclipse.JadclipseActionBarContributor.setActiveEditor(JadclipseActionBarContributor.java:87)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorActionBars.partChanged(EditorActionBars.java:335)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$3.run(WorkbenchPage.java:628)
.....(i don't think the rest of the stack trace is important)

Perhaps jadclipse isn't compatible with the version of its eclipse dependencies (on this line jadclipse makes a call to a class defined in the JDT plugin), but i didn't have the time to figure this out.

EDIT: i've simply recompiled the jar using the svn repository and created a new jar for java 1.5 and it seems to work (Download here). Just download my jar and put in the plugin folder of eclipse and remove the old one.

Answer 6

what worked for me is that I went to Window > Preferences... > General > Editors > File Associations and reset the default. I set the default to "Class File Viewer" and the back to "Jadclipse Class File Viewer". No it works for some reason. :) If you're out of luck, try that.