Problem opening perspective in eclipse

General Questions/Discussions
1

Hi,

I’ve installed Visual Paradigm for eclipse (using the noinstall method) and unjar’d it in the eclipse directory. When I try to open the perspective it gives me the following message:

Problems opening perspective
com.vp.vpsde.ec.perspectives.ModelingPerspective

And when I try to right-click a project to open a UML diagram it gives me the error message:

“The chosen operation is not currently available”

Does someone know what’s causing this problem?

Thanks in advance
Aashish

2

Hi Asshish,

I’ve installed SDE for eclipse (using the noinstall method) Modeler Edition and unzip it in the eclipse 2.1.2 directory. And I can’t get the message which about the problems on opening perspective.

Which version of Eclipse are you using?

Regards,
Mercus

3

Hi Mercus,

I’m using eclipse version 2.1.0, using the the noinstall method community edition.

Aashish

4

I’ve the same problem,
using eclipse 2.1.2 noinstall community edition…

5

I just installed the Community edition and have the exact same problem. Anyone?

6

I have the same problem… it could be a problem with the plugin-descriptor. In the plugin.xml this can bee seen:

However, the class
"com.vp.vpsde.ec.perspectives.ModelingPerspective"
doesn’t exist. I suppose they meant
"com.vp.vpsde.ec.ModelingPerspective" which can be found in the vpsdeec.jar file.

This seems like too obious an error to be believable - I’m hoping I just couldn’t find the plugin class or misunderstood the way plugin.xml works. I don’t develop plugins myself so I could just have missed something here.

I’ve tried removing the “perspectives” sub-package from the class name (found 3 times in plugin.xml and 3 times in plugin-platform.xml) so the plugin targets an actual, existing class, but the perspective still won’t open.

Bugger.