Getting Subclipse to Work in Gandymede (Eclipse 3.4)
This post was written by Greg Jastrab. Read other posts by Greg Jastrab.
I just upgraded Eclipse to 3.4 (Gandymede) since the latest upgrade to Flex Builder included support for Gandymede. I did my typical install by extracting the Gandymede tarball and then installed Subclipse through the Software updates (now in Help -> Software Updates…).
It looked like everything installed okay but then when I tried to do an update in an existing project I got an error:
"Unable to load default SVN Client"
The key is to include the SVNKit Adapter JavaHL Adapter when you install Subclipse:
Include JavaHL when installing Subclipse.
Hope that saves some people some time.
NOTE: Thanks to Mark for pointing out the recommended usage of JavaHL instead of SVNKit!
About the author: Greg Jastrab joined SmartLogic Solutions in June 2006 and leads all Flash/Flex/AIR development. Follow @gjastrab on twitter
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:41 am
It is actually better/preferred to use JavaHL. However, JavaHL uses the native Subversion libraries so you need to have them installed. For OSX, you can easily get them by simply installing the Subversion package for OSX that CollabNet provides.
There is an FAQ I am working on here:
http://desktop-eclipse.open.collab.net/wiki/JavaHL
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 am
Thanks Mark, I updated the post to reflect this recommendation.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Excellent blog entry! Just what I needed - thank you :)
September 17th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Thank you for this hint, works fine!
September 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
you are a god. thank you. i’ve been fighting with this error for the past 3 hours.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I found you need both in order for it to work for me.. SVNKit Adapter and JavaHL but i am using myeclipse as well..
October 14th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Nice! I installed JavaHL and now Subclipse works like a charm. Thanks for the tip.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:37 am
FWIW, I had the same issue on Eclipse 3.3. I use Tortoise for non-Eclipse SVN integration, and Subclipse within Eclipse. After I updated Tortoise from 1.4.x to 1.5.4, Subclipse started complaining about incorrect client versions. I updated Subclipse, but continued getting the errors. Installing the JavaHL fixed it all a treat!
All very odd, as I haven’t updated my SVN server at all. I’m surprised that Subclipse can get broken by upgrading Tortoise.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Thanks for the heads up.
Funny how simple changes can be complex by poor error messages.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Wow, someone in the office just pointed out that it’s Ganymede not Gandymede.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I spent a couple of hours trying to get this to work, compiling all of the subversion and javahl myself because there isn’t a binary package for Ubuntu. It still didn’t help so instead of faffing about with mysterious library paths I just installed SVNKit in 5 minutes. So much for the ‘recommended’ option.