Installing the Web Standard Tools update worked, and gave me the Database Explorer pane. I downloaded the JDBC driver for SQL Server 2000 and then got to the dialog in Eclipse where I need to configure it. Eclipse tries hard to provide defaults for things in most places, but here it fails. I’m asked to […]
The first problem I’ve been running into has nothing really to do with Eclipse, other than that it’s not handling a common failure very well. To use Eclipse to browse my database, I need to install a plugin – I’m not sure which plugin exactly, but I know at work I have Eclipse with all […]
I’m going to switch from Community Server to something else. At this point, it looks like it’s probably WordPress. I’ve been looking for a project I can use to familiarize myself with the nuts and bolts of Java development, so migrating my blog content will be my project. As part of a different project, I’ve also […]
I’ve been working on becoming a Java guy. Maybe not a 100% Pure Java guy, but a guy who’s at least familiar with Java and all that means today. J2EE is impressive in scope. I’m going through Sun’s J2EE 1.4 Tutorial and learning a lot from it. I had an unpleasant weekend trying to work […]