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Use this tag to ask about the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment which provides tools to create, develop, test, debug, build and deploy OSGi bundles, Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products.

The Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides tools to create, develop, test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, repositories, update sites and RCP products.

PDE also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling.

Note that PDE build tools are now in maintenance mode and are no longer being developed, building should be done with Maven and Eclipse Tycho.

For more details see: http://www.eclipse.org/pde/

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Continue development of Plugin

There is an Eclipse Plugin managed by Maven containing this configuration:
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How do I attach source code locations to plugins in my Eclipse RCP target platform?

I've got a workspace with multiple RCP plugin projects. We've set the target platform, so we can build against a standard set of plugins, but are not able to see source code and Javadoc for all the platform plugins. The Windows -> Preferences ->…
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Unable locate installable unit in target definition

I created my own target definition. It worked perfectly until now. Today I opened this target definition and got following error for all software sites I have there: Unable to locate installable unit The target definition file looks…
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How to develop Eclipse plugins in clojure?

I was wondering if there is a way to develop Eclipse plugins in Clojure. To be clear, the question is not about using Eclipse to write Clojure code. Both Eclipse and Clojure run on the JVM and I feel there should be way to leverage the power of…
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Eclipse editor plugin: "ERROR" when opening file outside project

I'm developing an editor plugin for eclipse. It works fine on files within eclipse projects, but when an external file is opened via the "File -> Open File" menu (which works file with, e.g. Java files), I get a page displaying nothing but a…
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Eclipse PDE, Navigator View, TreeSelection - Obtaining the file type and name

I'm trying to obtain details of an Eclipse user's structured selection in the Navigator Tree view. At present I have the following which is based on the org.eclipse.ui.popMenus extension point: public void run(IAction action) { Shell shell = new…
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Is the PDE's "Update Site Wizard" still the right way to create an update site?

The point of this question is to get verification from someone knowledgeable of the current state of affairs with the Eclipse install system. I have an Eclipse plugin and I want to make an update site for it using the easiest (but correct) method…
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How do I install eclipse PDE on Indigo (3.7)

I just re-installed eclipse, using the latest version (Indigo / 3.7), and I run into the exact same problem as I did half a year ago. I installed the eclipse java IDE, now how do I get the plugin development enviroment (PDE) working? I've installed…
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How to refresh resource from Eclipse Plugin?

I have changed some resource. When I click on it in Eclipse I get info "Resource is out of sync". How can I refresh it? I tried org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource.touch(IProgressMonitor), but it does not help
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Liquibase and PDE: Error Reading Migration File: Found 2 files that match /resources/changelog.xml

I'm using Liquibase in OSGi bundle to update database. The problem is, when I start in in Eclipse, using PDE. I get then error: liquibase.exception.ChangeLogParseException: Error Reading Migration File: Found 2 files that match…
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Eclipse v4.5 without delta-pack: How to perform a multiplatform headless PDE build?

Now that eclipse 4.5 is out and the eclipse team decided to not build the so-called "delta-pack" anymore, I don'tknow how to perform a PDE headless build with ant.. Official PDE build documentation here…
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What is an OSGI version qualifier

I need to confirm what I suspect as I cannot find any documentation on it, so this would appear a silly question, and since I am a learner at eclipse PDE. Initially, I had a parent project pom of an eclipse plugin project…
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How to make the PDE target definition editor show all plug-ins?

We aim at using Tycho+Eclipse PDE to build OSGi bundles in a distributed team. So far artifacts are built and deployed to a Nexus OSS repository. This has been augmented with p2 support, "artifacts.xml" and "content.xml" are generated (or…
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Developing on Eclipse 3.4, running on Eclipse 3.3

I'm developing an Eclipse plug-in, based on a bunch of core Eclipse plug-ins like SWT, JDT, GEF and others. I need my plug-in to be compatible with Eclipse 3.3, since many potential customers are still using it. However, personally I like the new…
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Eclipe PDE: Jump to line X and highlight it

A qustion about Eclipse PDE development: I write a small plugin for Eclipse and have the following * an org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ITextEditor * a line number How can I automatically jump to that line and mark it? It's a pity that the API seems only…
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