[Bug 313548] [NEW] Many features in Eclipse are broken.

[Michael Brooks]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: eclipse

Eclipse is a very powerful IDE,  and what sets it apart from the rest is
its built-in documentation,  its auto-completion and helpful hints for
solving bugs.  Its turns out that these three key features (and probably
more) are totally non-functional in Ubuntu's apt package.   Which in
turn makes apt's eclipse almost useless.   I suspect this bug ties in
with the "sun-java6-doc" package which requires the user to manually
download the file from sun's website and place it in /tmp/ .  Even after
this is craziness done,  the documentation is still unavailable to
Eclipse.

To see the bug first hand you have to download the real Eclipse for Java EE developers:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
direct link for Linux 32bit:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/SR1/eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz&url=http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/SR1/eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz&mirror_id=454
(Pretty sweet that its just a self contained directory, with no legal threats to my family,  too bad apt can't just download this directory and call it awesome!)

(If you have never used eclipse when you open it there is this window panel that has help buttons on it,  you need to close it in the upper right Conner to get access to the "package" section and to be able to see the code.)
Go to "file" then "new"  then  "Java Project"
Give it a name like "tester" and click next.
Click on the newly created project in your "Package"  section on the left most side and go to "new" then "Class".  call it "main" or whatever.
Inside the new class type this line:
HashMap h = new HashMap();

In both apt's version and the real version there will be a red squiggly
line under "HashMap".  In the real version of eclipse you get 6
different options to fix the error,   the very first one is "Import
'HashMap' (java.util)"  which is what you want.  In apt's version all it
says is "press f2 to focus",  which is less than worthless.

Peace

** Affects: eclipse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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