Vaadin version drop down is empty when try to create new project

Hi Experts,

I am having problem with Vaadin Integration plugin with Eclipse. I am using the latest Eclipse Galileo 3.5.1 JEE for Web Developers. When I click on create New Project → Vaadin Project, the vaadin version drop down is coming empty. I tried to complete the project creation, it prompted me “Failed while installing Vaadin Eclipse Integration 1.0 Reason: Checking latest available version of Vaadin failed”

Also,
Upon project creation, I tried to modify the vaadin version thorough > Properties, but the same emtpy drop down list is coming empty also. I click on the download button, but the same pop up doesn’t give me any vaadin version values.

Please help and guide as I would like to try out this cool RIA framework :frowning:

If the download list is empty and the plugin cannot fetch information about the latest version, most probably your firewall or web proxy is blocking access to files and directories under
http://vaadin.com/download/
. This is somewhat strange, though, if you were able to install the plugin from
http://vaadin.com/eclipse/
while on the same network.

If you cannot configure (in Window → Preferences → Network Connections) a local web proxy that would allow you access to them, try downloading the Vaadin JAR by hand from the above mentioned URL and GWT from
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
. GWT 1.7 is the version Vaadin supports but the version 2.0 that is just out might work as well. Then add the Vaadin JAR in your project in the WEB-INF/lib directory and the gwt-dev-*.jar and gwt-user.jar on your project classpath.

You should then be able to continue using the other features of the plugin.

Hi.
Nice plugin.
I am responding to this thread because I have this same issue: the user need is to be able to install an Eclipse configuration “OFFLINE”. We are building a configuration using offline mirrored repositories by dowloading all dependencies, writing to disc, scanning, and then building from disc. A lot of companies are not allowing internet access and have strict controls in place to prevent unwanted and malicious software on the intranet and/or contacting outside sites.

Please consider including any and all dependencies in the updatesite repository,including this version check that seems to be baked-in, to support offline configuration which is becoming more and more a standard of operation.

Thanks.