Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Network Problems with Eclipse Software-Updater

After a successful installation of some plugins in Eclipse 3.2 I tried to install some additional Plugins. After "Help --> Software Updates --> Find and Install --> Search for new features to install" and pressing "Finish" after selecting a Plugin Site i got the following Error Message:
"Network connection problems encountered during search"
when I switched to Detail-View I got: "Unable to access http://..."

Neither restarting Eclipse nor restarting my computer had any effects on this error.
When I selected: "Windows --> Preferences --> Install / Update" and did ANY change there, the Update Process was working again.
My decision: Eclipse stores the selected mirror anywhere in the .metadata and does this WRONG. After applying any change in the Install/Update properties, the mirror-link is lost and the installer works again