Can not install Spring Boot Tools plugin

[Feichtmeier]

This seems snap related

An error occurred while configuring the installed items
session context was:(profile=epp.package.java, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Configure, operand=null --> [R]org.eclipse.platform.ide 4.17.0.I20200902-1800, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.natives.actions.MkdirAction).
Could not create directory /snap/eclipse/55/dropins.

[alculete]

I had the same issue with JBoss tools.

[ThyMYthOS]

Seems we need to somehow configure where the "dropins" directory is.

[alculete]

Is Eclipse still supported by snapcrafters? I don't see any activity here for a long time.

[ThyMYthOS]

Right now, I only manage to do the quaterly updates and I'm happy that the snap works well for my purpose (Embedded C++). If you have any pull requests I can test those and give some comments, though I'm not allowed to do the actual merge.

[ThyMYthOS]

Back to the topic: Maybe this helps: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configuring-additional-eclipse-dropins-directories

[alculete]

I don't have much experience with snap packaging, maybe I need to start reading the documentation. Would be great if this was managed by upstream

[Feichtmeier]

@kenvandine sorry for tagging you in a random issue, but I think eclipse is, even though the UI is heavily outdated, a very very popular IDE among Java developers. And Java developers make much use of the Spring framework. Do you have any idea what might causing this issue?