I recently installed Nodeclipse for developing Node.js. Nice little editor with some code hinting and quick Node run command.
Due to my development requirements (and laziness) I wanted to work with the remote JS files using FTP. Nodeclipse does not support FTP out of the box. Enter “Remote System Explorer” for Eclipse.
The plugin installed easily. I entered my connection details. The console started showing my connection status and directory listings. However, attempting to explore the FTP site resulted in a generic “file system input or output error” and/or “java.net.SocketException”.
After some searching I found that the issue actually lies with the underlying Java VM used by Eclipse (Nodeclipse). I’d upgraded to JRE7 and there seems to be a bug in this release that causes an incompatibility with Eclipse.
I changed my shortcut to force Nodeclipse to use an install of JRE6 BIN folder.
eclipse.exe -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin"
NOTE: Ensure you are using the appropriate architecture (32-bit OR 64-bit) when matching JRE6 to Eclipse
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