I would be willing to contribute to this.

Frank


On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:26 AM, David Avendasora <[email protected]> wrote:

> We could do it something like in a crowd-funding way - everyone makes a 
> commitment to the level of contribution they are comfortable with, and if we 
> reach the stated goal, only then are people charged.
> 
> I’m guessing we’d need to raise $10,000+ to make it worth someone’s time to 
> fix/rewrite WOLips and add lots and lots and lots of documentation so we 
> aren’t hostage to the one person who wrote it.
> 
> I think we could achieve that.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:00 AM, James Cicenia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> How about we just "fund" an Eclipse Plug-In developer? 
>> 
>> We could add money or bitcoins to a community sponsored fund and then see if 
>> a developer is interested. 
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Johann Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 04.02.2014 um 16:37 schrieb Frank Cobia <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>>> I will give this a try and see if that fixes things for me. I am not sure 
>>>> what sashWeights does, but I am not sure that is the problem. I have tried 
>>>> doing similar things to this in the past and it would work for a while and 
>>>> then go back to throwing the NPEs.
>>>> 
>>>> Here are the two things I did in the source to fix things. 
>>>> 
>>>> 1) There are a lot of source files with garbled comments. I am not sure 
>>>> what happened there, but the comments seem to have been added years ago. I 
>>>> think the files got corrupted somehow. The java compiler complains about 
>>>> the characters not being UTF-8. Since they are not code and I don't know 
>>>> how to recover the un-garbbled comments, I just deleted them.
>>> 
>>> Can those comments be resurrected from the repository history? 
>>> Unfortunately besides those comments WOLips has no documentation (or is 
>>> there?)
>>> 
>>>> 2) There is a kind of race condition. When you open the editor, while 
>>>> preparing the editor, it makes a call that makes a call, that makes a 
>>>> call, etc. Eventually that gets to a line that call core eclipse code. The 
>>>> core eclipse code then tries to access the editor. The problem is that the 
>>>> editor is still in the process of opening. There is probably a more 
>>>> elegant way to fix this, since the problem is that it is trying to access 
>>>> a variable that has not been set yet. The data that will be set already 
>>>> exists in a temporary variable, so one possible fix could be to set the 
>>>> variable sooner, but I am not sure if that would cause larger problems. 
>>>> However, the line that was causing the problem, appeared, based on the 
>>>> comment, to fix an obscure seldom encountered problem. So I commented that 
>>>> line out and I have not had any problems.
>>>> 
>>>> Even if deleting that file fixes the current problem, if you go to 
>>>> Jenkins, you will see that the source no longer compiles. So, the plugin 
>>>> still needs to be fixed.
>>>> 
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This worked like a charm, thanks guys! :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> - hugi
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 4.2.2014, at 14:56, Jean-François Veillette 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I do what Lars recommended and it work!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I did a compare of the file before/after and the only diff is the number 
>>>>>> of that properties:
>>>>>> org.objectstyle.wolips.componenteditor.sashWeights=805,194
>>>>>> so you can simply remove that properties and it will work again.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> From what I looked at, the fix from Frank Cobia was commenting out the 
>>>>>> line culprit.  I did not looked enough to conclude if it was a real fix, 
>>>>>> or a mere workaround for now.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> jfv
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> De : Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Objet : Workaround for annoying NPE bug when opening WOComponent Editor
>>>>>>>> Date : 22 octobre 2013 06:49:28 HAE
>>>>>>>> À : "[email protected] List List" 
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I don't know if you're also affected by this, but all my coworkers 
>>>>>>>> experience from time to time those annoying cascades of NPEs when 
>>>>>>>> opening a WOComponent in the WOComponent Editor on Eclipse Kepler 
>>>>>>>> (4.3) and WOLips 4.3 which, once they're happening, never go away by 
>>>>>>>> themselves.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Now my coworker Tommy has found a workaround for this:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> - shutdown Eclipse
>>>>>>>> - delete 
>>>>>>>> .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.objectstyle.wolips.wodclipse.core.prefs
>>>>>>>>  from your workspace
>>>>>>>> - restart Eclipse
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -> everything should work fine now. When the problem recurs just 
>>>>>>>> delete this file again.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I hope this was helpful to some of you.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>        Lars
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le 2014-02-04 à 09:05, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I’m getting an error on 4.3 where if I open a component (the component 
>>>>>>>> editor), it just shows up empty and then proceeds to throw bazillion 
>>>>>>>> nullpointerexceptions at me.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I seem to recall having seen this before, but can’t for the life of me 
>>>>>>>> remember what I did to fix it. Light any bulbs for anyone?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> - hugi
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 3.2.2014, at 13:55, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 3.x does the same thing...
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I got side tracked this weekend, so I did not get a 
>>>>>>>>>> chance to clean up the code. 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> However, I have not seen the issue you are describing in EOModeler. 
>>>>>>>>>> There are times when the properties panel does not populate, but you 
>>>>>>>>>> just have to click on something else and then click back. So it is 
>>>>>>>>>> just an annoyance and not a problem.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Lon Varscsak <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> There was some wonkiness in the EOModeler tool too.  I vaguely 
>>>>>>>>>>> remember you'd go to edit a field (like class name) and it would 
>>>>>>>>>>> clear all the contents...so it was sort of impossible to work with. 
>>>>>>>>>>>  Did that ever get resolved?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> And Eclipse 4.x full support is one of the recurrent requests in 
>>>>>>>>>>> the surveys!
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> De: "David Avendasora" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> À: "Frank Cobia" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> Cc: "WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List" 
>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> Envoyé: Vendredi 31 Janvier 2014 09:41:56
>>>>>>>>>>> Objet: Re: WOLips for Eclipse 4.3.1
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Awesome! I would love to move forward!
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I have been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to be 
>>>>>>>>>>> working. I will try to get it all cleaned up this weekend and then 
>>>>>>>>>>> all I will need it help moving it from my personal guthub to the 
>>>>>>>>>>> official project guthub.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Frank
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Frank,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> While I volunteered to look at this at the last meeting, I have not 
>>>>>>>>>>> had the time.  I would love to help, especially if you’ve gotten 
>>>>>>>>>>> something going already which would alleviate the dreaded “figure 
>>>>>>>>>>> it out first” problem.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Ken
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Frank Cobia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I finally got tired of being stuck with Eclipse 3.x and sat dow to 
>>>>>>>>>>> figure out what was causing the "NullPointerException." 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I found the problem and fixed it and built it locally. I have been 
>>>>>>>>>>> running it for a couple of days now without any problems. However, 
>>>>>>>>>>> there are a couple of problems with getting this out to everyone:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 1) There were some libraries that were referenced with environment 
>>>>>>>>>>> variables. I hard coded the paths (It was 4am). I could probably go 
>>>>>>>>>>> back and fix this myself after a couple of days.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 2) I took out support for JRebel and JProfiler, because I did not 
>>>>>>>>>>> want to track down any libraries those are dependent on (again it 
>>>>>>>>>>> was 4am). Does anyone have experience with these parts?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 3) I am not very familiar with Git so I created my own repository 
>>>>>>>>>>> (https://github.com/fcobia/wolips). Can someone help me get my 
>>>>>>>>>>> changes moved into the official repository so that jenkins can be 
>>>>>>>>>>> successful building for Eclipse 4.3?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there anyone interested in having a functioning WOLips for 
>>>>>>>>>>> Eclipse 4.3 that could help me at least with numbers 2 and 3?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> Frank
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