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WDT 22.2 was tested for use with Eclipse 2022-03.

However, you can install it with Eclipse 2022-12-R by following the instructions provided below. These instructions will guide you through the steps of upgrading Eclipse from 2022-03-R to Eclipse 2022-12-R, so that you can successfully use the WDT 22.2 release of your choice.

The upgrade instructions are captured from the Eclipse documentation in How do I upgrade Eclipse IDE?.

1. Install Eclipse 2022-03-R
2. Install WDT 22.2 from eclipse marketplace
3. Upgrade Eclipse 2022-03-R to 2022-12-R from Help --> Check for Updates in the Eclipse workspace
   1. By default, https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest/ should be in the list of available update sites. If you don’t see it there, add https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2022-12/ to the list so that the update does not fail.
   2. The Eclipse upgrade process does not upgrade the Git or M2E, and possibly other, plugins. Check the list of plugins during the upgrade process.

4. Click Finish to complete the update process

Troubleshooting

Installing WDT 22.2 on top of a later release of Eclipse

If you try to install WDT 22.2 with one of the later versions of Eclipse (2022-06-R , 2022-09-R, 2022-12-R) using the following steps, you will see The installation cannot be completed as requested in the Confirm Selected Features window: 

Updating all the packages via Help --> About Eclipse IDE

If you select the option to update all the packages, you will find this fails. See the following steps which describe this. 

1. Go to Help --> About Eclipse IDE, and click Installation Details
2. Select the Installed Software tab, and click Update