I am keen to try out Amazon’s new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse which adds EC2 instance management and direct deployment into the Eclipse IDE.
However, I have just wasted my afternoon trying to upgrade to a new version of Eclipse that:
- Is version 3.3 or later, to be compatible with Amazon’s toolkit
- Includes the Web Tools Platform, ditto
- Actually works, without weird graphics glitches (Ganymede/3.4) or broken components out-of-the-box (Europa/3.3)
This reminds me why I’ve stuck with Eclipse version 3.2 for years — every update is a huge pain.
Anyhow, that’s enough whining for now. I’m writing this post in the hope that I can come back and update it with some solutions if/when I figure out how to get this stuff working.