Velocity Web Edit Plug-in Fix for Eclipse 3.4+

Velocity Web Edit is a Velocity and HTML aware editor with the following features:

• Customizable Syntax Hilighting
• Content Assist
  • Velocity Variables Names
  • Velocity Variable Methods and Properties (using Reflection)
  • Javascript Function Methods
  • Velocity Macro Directives
  • Style Sheet Class Names
• Velocity Outline
• HTML/XML Outline With XML Node Filtering and Intuitive Images
• Smart Indenting
• Customizable DTD for XML Content Assist
• Velocity Context Object Definitions at any Resource Level

There are several Velocity plug-ins available however I believe this one is superior because it has content-assist capabilities. Unfortunately, the last official version of this plug-in (1.0.8) as it exists on the SourceForge site has not been updated since Eclipse 3.3 and has a bug that prevents variable-object configuration from working for content-assist. The problem occurs when creating context variables - a NoSuchMethodException is thrown due to the removal of the getFullyQualifiedName method in the JavaModelUtil class. This problem can be corrected by performing the following tasks:

1. Open an Eclipse 3.4+ workspace (must be on a Windows OS!)
2. Check out the VelocityWebEdit project from the SourceForge CVS repository:
   Host: velocitywebedit.cvs.sourceforge.net
   Repository Path: /cvsroot/velocitywebedit
   User: anonymous
   Connection type: pserver
3. Edit /src/com/hudson/velocityweb/dialogs/ContextValueDialog.java
4. Paste in the following method:




Note that I found this method on the www.java2s.com/OpenSource site.


5. Find the following line of code:
   
   and replace it with:
   
   (Notice the new line of code doesn't reference JavaModeUtil)



6. Right click on the VelocityWebProgram and click on Export...



7. Click on Plug-in Development and then Deployable plug-ins and fragments. Then click the Next > button.



8. Insure the Directory radio button is selected and choose a destination directory for the plug-in. Then click on the Finish button.



9. In Windows File Explorer, navigate to the directory specified above and then to the plugins directory.



10. Copy the com.hudson.velocityweb_1.0.8.jar to your Eclipse installation's dropins directory.



11. Restart Eclipse.