I have had a mixed bag of results with this little experiment. I am trying this simultaneously on five machines. I chose the Javascript version of Eclipse Indigo 3.7
64bit Dell laptop running Windows 8 with 8GB RAM installed easily and found CFB and Java no problem. On restart, though, I get the "Locking is not possible in the directory...." message. I removed file locking from all files in the Eclipse directory (c:\program files\eclipse) and subdirectories, still no go. Ran windows explorer as admin, no go; changed user level permissions, no go. I can start it and run it as Administrator with no problem. Partial success due to the Admin factor, but very very fast.
64 bit Dell laptop running Windows 7 with 16 GB RAM - same exact results as above. Partial success again, but also lightning fast.
Both of the above are client-supplied and they may have policies installed that I can't get to (well, not without violating client agreements, anyway), so I will consult with their administrators to see if I can get them to relax the restrictrions on the Eclipse directories.
64 bit HP desktop running Windows 7 Pro with 32 GB RAM gave me some trouble trying to find Java. Finally had to copy JRE to the directory right under the install directory for Eclipse, but now getting "Failed to load JNI shared program library "C:\Program Files\eclipse\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll" even though that file is there. I'm guess I have the wrong JRE install or something. Tried two different flavors of Java to no avail. Running as Administrator makes no difference. Because I now had multiple Java's loaded, I uninstalled them all per another blog, then re-installed a for-sure 64 bit version. Success running Eclipse, so I closed it and loaded CFB. Loading took forever, but it succeeded. Started eclipse -- again, very slow here. CFB2 was slow to load also, but this takes the cake. I could go eat supper waiting for this. After CFB was installed, though, it loaded a TON faster and I do not have the file locking problem here. SUCCESS!
And you were right -- for all intents and purposes, this is CFB2 (and since we are using cfb2 as a plugin, why wouldn't it be, right?). I am looking forward to adding SVN to them all now...and TFS to one of the client laptops.
64 bit HP desktop running Vista Business SP2 with 4 GB ram - got the "Locking..." message after fixing the java issue, but even running as administrator makes no difference. Found multiple Java's on that machine as well, so uninstalled then reinstalled a 64 bit version. Same scenario as the other 64 bit desktop - Eclipse loads and sets up very slow the first time. Took forever for this older machine to finish, but all is now working very well. SUCCESS!
32 bit HP laptop running Vista home. Loaded all according to instructions, 32 bit version running and loading much faster than the 64 bit players. Restarts without any issues, loads a little slow but loads and runs faster than cfb2, that's for sure. SUCCESS!
Thanks again for the information, ScottH!
On a side note: Java should be ashamed of themselves for the shameless plugging and trickery used that fools even us veterans into clicking on the wrong damn thing and wasting our time starting a download for some dumb cleaner or the other. How pathetic.
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