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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Eclipse PDE Ant Build Script Generation Failing Due to Binary Cycles

I'm trying to compile down a set of plug-ins (ultimately OSGi bundles) into a feature using Eclipse PDE tools. I have a custom Target Platform based on the Spring framework. When I export the feature through Eclipse's Export Wizard the feature…
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How do you package an Eclipse plugin as a directory so additional files may be added?

I need to be able to include additional files with the JAR plugin and I am having difficulty finding documentation describing how to do this. When looking in the Eclipse/plugins directory it looks as if some plugins do this, implying it is…
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Eclipse Plugins: Retrieving the missing HelloWorld.actionSet

Using Juno and Eclipse PDE. Trying to create a simple plug-in (using the template Hello, World Command). When I run it the following message appears in the log: !MESSAGE Unable to find Action Set: HelloWorld.actionSet As suggested over at Q:…
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General questions about PDE programming

Here are two short, but hopefully good questions: When to use plugins and when fragments? What is a headless PDE build and when to use it (and when not)?
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Bundle names of built plugins

Once the plugins are built the bundle name contains the time stamp, for e.g. org.apache.batik.transcoder.source_1.6.0.v201011041432.jar Also in manifest.mf the Bundle Version contains the same time stamp. I want to keep the timestamp in…
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Hudson job does not stop - why?

My automated build and tests are up and running, everything works fine. Im am using hudson and the pde build (configured with pluginbuilder). When the build succeeds everything is fine, the hudson ball turns blue and so on. But when something goes…
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Running p2.process.artifacts in Jenkins

I read the SO post Running P2 Ant tasks outside Eclipse, which was a great help. I am trying to call p2.process.artifacts, however I am not sure what arguments should I pass to java task call. What should value for application argument be and how…
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Eclipse Derived Resources

My Plugin tries to clone a mercurial repository and add some plugin specific files like .customplugin/service.xml, .customplugin/info.xml. I dont want these files to be tracked by version control. I tried the below approach: After creating the…
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How can we get the selected rows in a ProblemView in Eclipse?

In our eclipse plugin we are using a problem view extending ProblemView. One of the action attached to the rows in the view is properties. When user clicking on this action she/he should see the information about the problem. The problem is that the…
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Is there a way to determine the project based on the node expanded(not necessarily selected) in a Project in Eclipse?

I have added a javascript library to my project programatically. I add different versions of library based on user preference during project creation. I am able to achieve this but I am not able to retain the project information once the library…
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Include all workspace classes in eclipse plugin

I'm trying to transport arbitrary Java objects from workspace to my plugin by serializing them to XML using XStream. This works fine (using SIMON), but when trying to restore them on plugin-site, I get a CannotResolveClassException (obviously). So…
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How to get API Tooling to work in Eclipse

I have been having a real hard time getting API Tooling to work in Eclipse 3.4.2. It keeps telling me: The minor version should be incremented in version 3.4.0.qualifier, since new APIs have been added since version 3.4.0.40001 That being said,…
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osgi: fragment is not working outside eclipse pde (and no error appeared)

Context of this problem: OSGi and Eclipse Platform. I've got bundle (plugin) which is host for some fragment. Fragment is running only when I start it through Eclipse "run configuration" (I add it in plugin dependencies in run configuration of…
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How can I import org.eclipse.pde.internal with sources?

The problem is, that this package and its children are not seen in the list of packages of "import". When I import all pde packages, org.eclipse.pde.internal somehow becomes usable anyway. But I don't see its sources. How can I manage this package?
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Open an editor in debug in Eclipse RCP application

I'm developing an Eclipse application that allows to develop PDE modules. Note that this application has an own workspace. I have the following question for you: Is possible to open a GraphicalEditor in debug mode, using all plugins projects that…
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