thechiselgroup/Diver — Issue #4: Diver 0.4.0 - Preference Page Error
Author: seanws
Created: 2012-03-07 07:01:21+00:00
State: open

I installed all features for Diver 0.4.0 on the p2 updatesite and after installing it, i couldn't open the preference page (Window->Prefereces->Diver:Workbench Filter)... it throws an error described in the attached file. The Diver Preferences Page (Window->Prefereces->Diver) is clean, there is nothing.

I'm running Eclipse 3.7 64Bit with Java JDK 1.6u26 on Windows7 Ultimate 64Bit.

Comments:
Delmyers

Hello, thanks for reporting the bug.

My guess is that this comes from a missing (now defunct) plug-in, that is
accidentally referenced by the preference page. Sorry about that. You
should be able to run Diver without ever having to edit any of the
preferences. The preference pages were mostly to set up data logging
facilities so that we (as researchers at UVic) could track Diver usage. We
aren't doing that study anymore, so the preferences aren't necessary. I
can't work on this myself, but it will hopefully be fixed in a minor update
of Diver.

By the way: Diver doesn't currently trace 64bit target VMs. You can run it
in 64bit Eclipse, but you can't trace an application running in a 64bit VM.
To trace using Diver, you'll have to install a 32bit VM and run your
applications using it. Sorry about that. It's just a result of not having
enough time to test on 64bit platforms.