Java Jester

I finished the installation of Ubuntu 8.04 last night. I just became a 100% open source developer by completely dumping windows. The installation was not very straight forward because I encountered several problems with eclipse running on Ubuntu. The following are the things I needed to solve while trying to install my Java development tools:

1. Eclipse keeps on crashing

This problem was really annoying because eclipse keeps on crashing every 5-10 minutes.

Solution:

Just add this at the end of your eclipse.ini (considering that no previous modification to that file was made):

-XX:MaxPermSize=90M

You will need to adjust the size depending on your computers memory.


2. Cannot open any file with JBoss Tools HTML Editor

When opening any file using JBoss Tools HTML Editor, I get a message box with the following error:

/home/jexter/app/eclipse/plugins/org.mozilla.xulrunner.gtk.linux.x86_1.8.1.3-20070904/xulrunner/libjavaxpcomglue.so: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

Just install libstdc++5 by simply running this:

apt-get install libstdc++5

Don't forget to update your packages first.