[jbosstools-dev] Compilation errors in WTP3 / Eclipse 3.4 aka Ganymede compatibility

[Marshall Culpepper]

Hey everyone..

I just imported our codebase into Eclipse 3.4 milestone 4 w/ WTP 3.0 M4 
to take a look at our compatibility. Currently we have a number of 
compilation problems, most of them seem to be internal API 
dependencies.. but I didn't go over every single one.For reference, I 
downloaded all the Eclipse 3.4/WTP 3.0 stuff from the following URL:

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.0/S-3.0M4-20080105091323/


To summarize the errors, it looks they are pretty much all over the 
board. I'm seeing deprecated and changed internal APIs being used in all 
of our components from Hibernate Tools, JBossAS Tools, VPE, Common, to 
even the older JBossIDE core.

*Most* of the errors I'm seeing look to be relatively trivial to fix, 
but again I haven't gone over every single one. Usually it's a change of 
a method / class name, or a field that isn't visible anymore. Also keep 
in mind that getting stuff compiling doesn't mean it actually works, so 
there might be some bad methods / workarounds we used in old code that 
won't work with new libraries.

As Max said today, I think it would be prudent if we branched now so we 
can make sure that we have enough time to file bugs and get everything 
working before the WTP3.0 / Ganymede freeze date which is coming up in a 
few months.