I arrived at work today and meant to fire up Rational Application Developer 7, the truly-so-much-improved-Eclipse-based IDE from IBM that I have to use because the client mandates it.
Really, it is so much better than version 6, run faster, 10 times more stable, everything – seriously better. And I am like, all ‘Go IBM!’ and telling other co-workers using version 6 that 7 is like, just great. And we look at each other and say together – ‘Just wait…’.
So today the wait is over.
RAD refused to start, crashing with a java.lang.VerifyError. Java errors mean the world had just come to an end, and on behalf of Java and the rest of the development team, they wish you all the luck. And yeah, F- you. I looked online – nothing really other than this. I tried starting up RAD with a -clean parameter which did absolutely nothing (that works in Eclipse, normally). I then looked at the eclipse.ini file and the moment I saved it, RAD not only did not start, it popped a window saying “Could Not Start JVM”. Sweet.
Final attempt: renamed eclipse.ini to eclipse-old.ini and wham – everything started again…
I copied another instance of the ini file to my machine and restarted again and it still worked.
Nonetheless, a waste of 3 hours.
So after it gained my faith, I am back feeling a bit shaky with my RAD….
