Chapter 1. Eclipse 4.18 Red Hat Developer Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is an offering for developers on the RHEL platform that includes Eclipse 4.18, which is based on the Eclipse Foundation's 2020-12 release train. The Eclipse development environment provides tools for each phase of the development process. Eclipse 4.18 on RHEL 7 supports Java development. To learn more about Eclipse, see the main Eclipse foundation page . Sample Eclipse session Eclipse provides a graphical development environment and is therefore an alternative to using the command-line interface. For an overview of how to develop applications for Red Hat JBoss Middleware or for support of OpenShift Tools, see Red Hat Developer Studio . 1.1. Enabling access to Eclipse RPMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Eclipse is part of the Red Hat Developer Tools content set for RHEL 7. To install Eclipse, enable the Red Hat Developer Tools, Red Hat Software Collections, and Optional repositories using the Red Hat Subscription Management utility. Prerequisites The host must be registered and attached to a subscription. For more information on registering your system using Red Hat Subscription Management and associating it with subscriptions, see the Red Hat Subscription Management collection of guides. Procedure Choose the system variant , either workstation or server , to use in the following commands. Red Hat recommends to choose server for access to the widest range of development tools. Enable the rhel-7- variant -devtools-rpms repository to access Red Hat Developer Tools: Enable the rhel- variant -rhscl-7-rpms repository to access Red Hat Software Collections: Enable the rhel-7- variant -optional-rpms repository to access additional components: Optional: Enabling the Red Hat Developer Tools debuginfo repositories The Red Hat Developer Tools offering also provides debuginfo packages for all architecture-dependent RPMs in the repositories. These packages are useful for core-file analysis and for debugging Eclipse itself. Procedure Enable the Red Hat Developer Tools debuginfo repositories and replace variant with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system variant ( server or workstation ): Enable the Red Hat Software Collections debuginfo repository: Additional resources For details on installing, understanding, and using the debuginfo packages, refer to Debugging a Running Application . For more information on registering your system using Red Hat Subscription Management and associating it with subscriptions, see the Red Hat Subscription Management collection of guides. For detailed instructions on managing a subscription to Red Hat Software Collections, see the Red Hat Developer Toolset User Guide Section 1.4. Getting Access to Red Hat Developer Toolset . 1.2. Installing Eclipse The following section describes how to install Eclipse. Note Eclipse is available only on the AMD64 and Intel 64 architecture. Prerequisites On RHEL 7, the repositories must be enabled as per Section 1.1, "Enabling access to Eclipse RPMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7" . Procedure On RHEL 7, run the following command: 1.2.1. Installing additional Eclipse components Eclipse 4.18 on RHEL 7 supports Java development. To install more components from the upstream repositories, for example to support the C and C++ languages, use the Install New Software wizard, Eclipse Marketplace Client, or the command-line interface. Note Installing additional Eclipse components is not possible without access to the internet. 1.2.1.1. Installing additional Eclipse components using the Install New Software wizard Procedure To use the Install New Software wizard for the installation of additional components, in the main menu click Help > Install New Software and follow the instructions on the screen. 1.2.1.2. Installing additional Eclipse components using Eclipse Marketplace To use the Marketplace Client for the installation of additional components, follow the instructions in Section 1.2.1.2.1, "Example: Installing C and C++ Development Tooling (CDT) using the Eclipse Marketplace Client" . 1.2.1.2.1. Example: Installing C and C++ Development Tooling (CDT) using the Eclipse Marketplace Client Procedure From the main menu, select Help > Eclipse Marketplace . In Eclipse Marketplace, use the Find field to search for the wanted component, in this case CDT, and press Go . Click the Install button to start the installation and follow the instructions on the screen. 1.2.1.3. Installing additional Eclipse components using the command-line interface Red Hat recommends using Eclipse Marketplace or the Install New Software wizard to install additional components to Eclipse. However, it is possible to install components from the command line using the p2 director application. To use the command-line interface for the installation of additional components, follow the instructions in Section 1.2.1.3.1, "Example: Installing Eclipse C and C++ Development Tools using the command-line interface" . 1.2.1.3.1. Example: Installing Eclipse C and C++ Development Tools using the command-line interface Prerequisites Eclipse is not running. Procedure In the command-line interface, run the following command: Start Eclipse. Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools is installed. Warning Running the p2 director application as root causes significant problems for the RPM consistency. Never run the p2 director application as root. Additional resources For a list of available components, see Section 1.4, "Eclipse Components" . For further information on the p2 director application, see Installing software using the p2 director application in the online documentation or the built-in help system of Eclipse. 1.3. Starting Eclipse 1.3.1. Starting Eclipse from the GUI To start Eclipse from the GUI, complete the following steps: Click Applications > Programming > Red Hat Eclipse . 1.3.2. Starting Eclipse from the command-line interface To start Eclipse from the command-line, type the following at a shell prompt: On RHEL 7: While starting, Eclipse prompts you to select a workspace directory for your projects. You can use ~/workspace/ , the default option, or click Browse and select a custom directory. You can also select Use this as the default and do not ask again to prevent Eclipse from displaying this dialog box again. Click OK to confirm the selection and proceed with the start. 1.4. Eclipse Components The Eclipse development environment is provided as a set of RPM packages. The set contains the following Eclipse components: Table 1.1. Eclipse Components on RHEL 7 Package Description rh-eclipse-eclipse-egit EGit, a team provider for Eclipse, provides features and plug-ins for interaction with Git repositories. rh-eclipse-eclipse-emf The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) enables you to build applications based on a structured data model. rh-eclipse-eclipse-gef The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) enables you to create a rich graphical editor from an existing application model. rh-eclipse-eclipse-jdt The Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) plug-in. rh-eclipse-eclipse-jgit JGit, a Java implementation of the Git revision control system. rh-eclipse-eclipse-mpc The Eclipse Marketplace Client. rh-eclipse-eclipse-pde The Plugin Development Environment for developing Eclipse plug-ins. rh-eclipse-eclipse-subclipse Subclipse, a team provider for Eclipse allows you to interact with Subversion repositories. rh-eclipse-eclipse-webtools The Eclipse Webtools plug-ins. Additional resources A detailed description of Eclipse and all its features is beyond the scope of this document. For more information, see the following resources. Installed documentation Eclipse includes a built-in help system that provides extensive documentation for each integrated feature and tool. It is accessible from Eclipse's main menu: Help > Help Contents . Other resources For a list of selected features and improvements in the latest version of the Eclipse development environment, see Section 1.5, "Changes in Eclipse 4.18" . 1.5. Changes in Eclipse 4.18 Eclipse 4.18 ships with Red Hat Developer Tools and plug-ins from the 2020-12 release train that provide a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements. This section lists notable new features and compatibility changes in this release. Significant package updates on RHEL 7 eclipse 4.17 4.18 Eclipse IDE and JDT/PDE plug-ins have been updated to version 4.18. For a more complete list of changes, see the Eclipse 4.18 - New and Noteworthy page. Notable enhancements include: In the Console preference page it is now possible to select the new preference "Enable word wrap". In the Appearance preference page the new "System" theme is now available. It uses system colors to integrate smoothly into your operating system or operating system theme. Eclipse JDT has been updated to use JUnit 5.7. New clean up options and code formatting options have been added to Java Development Tools. In the Arguments tab for Java-based launch configurations (Java Application, JUnit, and others), you can now select the new checkbox to write arguments into an @argfile . eclipse-egit/jgit 5.9.0 5.10.0 The Git integration plug-ins have been updated to version 5.10.0. For details, see the upstream EGit 5.10.0 release notes and JGit 5.10.0 release notes . eclipse-m2e 1.16.2 1.17.1 The Maven integration plug-in has been updated to version 1.17.1. Deprecated functionality on RHEL 7 Python development is no longer supported as part of Eclipse. It can be installed additionally from the Install New Software wizard or Eclipse Marketplace. Additional resources For details on how to use the new features, see Eclipse Installed documentation . 1.6. Known issues in Eclipse 4.18 This section details the known issues in Eclipse 4.18. Known issues on RHEL 7 Initializing Eclipse Error Reporting System error This error occurs when running a workspace created in an older version of Eclipse. To work around this problem, start Eclipse with the -clean option to clear its dependency resolution cache: Eclipse will start without this error message. NullPointerExceptions NullPointerExceptions can occur when you install a plug-in from a third-party update site. In that case, Eclipse fails to start with a NullPointerException in the workspace log file. To work around this problem, restart Eclipse with the -clean option to clear its dependency resolution cache: On RHEL 7: Eclipse will start normally. The rh-eclipse-tycho package conflicts with the same package from earlier collections For example: rh-eclipse48-tycho : As a result, the installation of the rh-eclipse-tycho package may fail when the rh-eclipse48-tycho package is already installed. You only need Tycho if you want to build or rebuild Eclipse or its plug-ins need Tycho. If needed, uninstall the rh-eclipse48-tycho package before installing the rh-eclipse-tycho package using this command: The installation of the rh-eclipse-tycho package will now succeed. The rh-eclipse-scldevel package conflicts with packages from earlier collections For example: rh-maven36-scldevel : As a result, the installation of the rh-maven36-scldevel package may fail when the rh-maven35-scldevel package is already installed. To solve this problem, uninstall the rh-maven35-scldevel package before installing the new version of rh-eclipse-scldevel using this command: The installation of rh-eclipse-scldevel will now succeed. Incompatibilities between Eclipse Subclipse and base RHEL Subversion Working copies of Subversion repositories created with Eclipse Subclipse are incompatible with the base RHEL version of Subversion. Using the svn command on such working copies may result in the following error: To work around this problem, use the pure Java implementation of Subversion used by Eclipse Subclipse on the command line: Now, use the jsvn command anywhere you would normally use the svn command: Lambda expression evaluation failed due to unexpected argument types During compilation, some lambda expressions used in conditional breakpoints or Expression view are falsely assigned an Object variable type. For example, the expression lotteryNumbers.stream().anyMatch(a a >= 42) evaluates the following error message:

Commands:
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7- variant -devtools-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel- variant -rhscl-7-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7- variant -optional-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7- variant -devtools-debug-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-__variant__-rhscl-7-debug-rpms
yum install rh-eclipse
scl enable rh-eclipse 'eclipse -noSplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2020-12 -i org.eclipse.cdt.feature.group'
scl enable rh-eclipse eclipse
scl enable rh-eclipse "eclipse -clean"
scl enable rh-eclipse "eclipse -clean"
yum remove rh-eclipse48-tycho
yum remove rh-maven35-scldevel
svn up svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy
yum install rh-eclipse-svnkit-cli # Command line support for SVNKit
jsvn up Updating '.': At revision 16476.
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