I used Eclipse between 2008-2018. After 2018 I saw everyone was using Intellij I moved too. Then today I was trying to write some aspectj code and created an .aj file. I realized intellij community edition does not really support aj files. I checked vscode it also did not support it, then the old friend eclipse came. It caused some issues because of the old plugin version, but after installation of the new version ajdt plugin it worked. ...
Best document I found is here, main problem about the documentation is google :) whenever I search different versions of “building eclipse in windows” all results were related to how to build a project(java or anything else) in eclipse. And I decided to write this note blog just for future refference. I had some issues on the way fatal: cannot create directory at 'bundles/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tests/testData/previousConfigurationFinder/testSuccedingVersion/matchFromSuccedingAndPreccedingWithDifferentPlatfrom/org.eclipse.platform_3.8.0_11111111_linux-gtk-x86_64': Filename too long and constituent[40]: file:/C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/lib/wagon-file-3.3.4.jar constituent[41]: file:/C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/lib/wagon-http-3.3.4-shaded.jar constituent[42]: file:/C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/lib/wagon-provider-api-3.3.4.jar --------------------------------------------------- Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: pom file must not be null from PolyglotModelManager as per API at org.sonatype.maven.polyglot.TeslaModelProcessor.locatePom(TeslaModelProcessor.java:64) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:500) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:414) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:377) at org.apache.maven.graph.DefaultGraphBuilder.collectProjects(DefaultGraphBuilder.java:414) at org.apache.maven.graph.DefaultGraphBuilder.getProjectsForMavenReactor(DefaultGraphBuilder.java:405) at org.apache.maven.graph.DefaultGraphBuilder.build(DefaultGraphBuilder.java:82) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.buildGraph(DefaultMaven.java:507) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:219) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:192) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:105) or some git clone problems, you need to make sure there is no problem in git clone. ...