Questions tagged [eclipse-pde]

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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Imitating Eclipse's "Open Project" UI Functionality

I am developing an Ant task that runs inside an Eclipse workbench. The Ant task needs to complete a simple mission: closing and reopening a project. However, the following code: IProject project =…
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Eclipse 4, PDE strange behaviour

I have a problem with my newly installed Eclipse. Whatever plugin I create or import, as soon as I press launch button in overview tab, another eclipse application begins to load which is a full feature eclipse application and nowhere close to my…
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How to attach scope to handlers bound to Eclipse default commands

I have a problem figuring out how to override a command, and specifically: org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.showInformation in Eclipse RCP. It look like extending through org.eclipse.ui.handlers never trigger my handler, and the console always…
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To invoke code before loading eclipse splash screen

I have created a eclipse product using product configuration (.product) file. I want to display a dialog before the eclipse splash screen(the product screen) appears for some validation.Since am launching the product from the configuration(.product)…
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PDE UI & PHP Development How to install

i need to finde PDE UI and, i was looking llike for 2 days, I migrated java ide and java ee ide of eclipse. I have Eclipse Java EE IDE 4.4(Luna). I need all of them on same instalation.
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Eclipse editor plugin developement - listen to undo/redo

I am developing an eclipse plugin containing a multi-page xml editor among other utilits. The number of pages and its content is dependent from the first page which is a text editor. For tabs update I've implemented updateTabs() method. I would like…
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Accessing classes within a jar placed in a dependent plugin

I have the following usecase. I have added a jar file(generated out of maven) as an external jar in the bundle path of a plugin (say Plugin A). I have exposed all the packages inside this jar in Plugin A. Now Plugin A is added as a dependency to…
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Eclipse automatic build for custom project: what about first build?

Eclipse "build automatically" is supposed to trigger a build when a resource has changed. In my Eclipse-RCP app I have a project with a custom Nature and my Builder. The builder gets invoked as expected (both with or without "build automatically"),…
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How to add new items to an existing menu in Eclipse?

I want to add a new item to a menu. For example File > New > New item or Project > Build > Working set > New item I've got this far with my plugin.xml:
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Eclipse 4.2.1 plugin execution outside ide bundle not resolved errors

I am facing bundle not resolved errors which ultimately lead to java.lang.RuntimeException: Application "com.xyz.application" could not be found in the registry. after upgrading to Eclipse 4.2.1. I get these issues when I run my application outside…
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Headless build should include all dependencies

I have a product consisting of several plugins that I want to build. The endresult I want is a zipfile containing all my jar files AND the dependencies I have, i.e org.eclipse.swt.X.jar, org.eclipse.ui.Y.jar etc. It's building and zipping ok but I…
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PDE headless build issues with eclipse RCP migration from 3.7.2 to 4.3.2

We are in the process of migrating our application from 3.7.2 to 4.3.2, but facing few issues during pde-build. Though I can get the application to build and launch and work well from the Eclipse 4.3.2 IDE itself, the command line build fails with…
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How to construct an Eclipse instance for standalone (CI) execution?

I need to use the p2 publishing tools from a headless build, and hence need, AFAICT, to assemble an Eclipse execution environment for that. I'm basing this on Running p2.process.artifacts in Jenkins, Running P2 Ant tasks outside Eclipse, and the…
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Reuse PDE' s ManifestEditor and meet NullPointerException

1.what we are planning to do : Reuse the ManifestEditor to open the MANIFEST.MF file, and add our features to the first OverviewPage. 2.what we already have known and done : It's dangerous to use the internal classes and APIs, so we create a…
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How to get element by ID in PDE?

for example my View has an id public static final String ID = "examplePlugin.views.SampleView" How do I get an instance of this View (or any other thing in eclipse ) by id ?
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