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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OSGi bundles dependency management in Eclipse

I have an OSGi bundle which is in Eclipse IDE represented as Eclipse Plug-in Project. The only way I found to satisfy the dependencies of this plug-in/bundle is to 1) import all dependencies (.jar files) through File > Import... > Plug-ins and…
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install plugin spy plugin into custom rcp application

Plugin spy is included into Eclipse since 3.4. I wonder if there is somewhere separate plugin distribution, so it could be used to install into custom rcp application. In my case it is jubula if this information is necessary.
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how to work with Eclipse Source Code in Eclipse itself

I have download entire Eclipse Helios/Indigo version Source Code. Now I want to work on it like some modifications and all. So I imported the entire sourceCode but now I am getting n number of errors while compiling. Moreover I am trying to RunAs>…
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Sonar reports JaCoCo Coverage for the Test classes themselves. Is this correct? How do I change this?

we have a multi-module Maven project of Eclipse Plugins. Code Coverage Report generation using JaCoCo is working, but the statistics seem to be false. Coverage of the test classes themselves is being calculated AND being added to the general code…
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How do I fix eclipse warning: "It is recommended for plug-in 'XXX' to run from a JAR, specify 'unpack="false"' attribute"

The plug-in really needs to be unpacked, yes I know it shouldn't care, but it does. I just want to make this warning go away, how do I do that?
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Generating a p2 repository from a local folder, so that it can be used in a target platform

I want to build an RCP application with Maven and Tycho. For this I need to change my target platform which is only a folder in the file-system to a p2 repository. To generate the p2 repository I created a new workspace, set the target platform and…
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How to implement content assist's documentation popup in Eclipse RCP

I have implemented my own editor and added a code completion functionality to it. My content assistant is registered in source viewer configuration like this: public IContentAssistant getContentAssistant(ISourceViewer sourceViewer) { if…
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Eclipse PDE: Custom QuickFix only available in Problems View?

i am having trouble with custom quick-fixes, which i want to provide in my Eclipse plug-in, and i'm hoping for someone more experienced than me in Eclipse PDE to have some hints for me on this issue. As i have understood, i can provide custom…
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How can I obtain the version number of a custom Eclipse feature at runtime?

I would like to display the version number of a custom Eclipse feature I am developing in the title bar of its perspective. Is there a way to obtain the version number from the runtime plugin and/or workbench?
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How to set up Eclipse PDE/Build with Indigo?

In my project I use PDE/Build to build my RCP application on a remote server in Hudson. The current version is a package based on Eclipse Galileo and it works fine both as a builder application and as a target platform. Now I want to upgrade it to…
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Eclipse PDE creating a new project

I'm using the Wizard Extension to get some settings from the user. After on my plugin modifies an Eclipse project and then it should be included into the Package Explorer. The whole thing is then quite similar to "New Project → Existing…
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Eclipse Plugin: Creating a dynamic menu and corresponding handler?

I am trying to write what I think is a very simple Eclipse plugin, but I am really struggling to find my way around as I have never worked with the PDE before. Basically what I am trying to do is add a sub-menu to the Java Project context menu that…
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Read eclipse installation path using eclipse API

I opened eclipse 3.3.2. Now i need to get the current eclispe installation path. Is there any eclipse API to get the eclipse installation path? Please help in this regard. Thanks in Advance.. Snehal
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Creating Eclipse plugins from existing jars in an automated build

I want to make the build process for my Eclipse RCP plugin fully automatic. It has some third-party jar dependencies (available from Maven repositories) which are not distributed as OSGi bundles, and currently I use the "Eclipse plugin from existing…
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Difference between IWorkbenchWindow and IWorbenchPage in Eclipse SDK

I still don't get what the difference is between the two. The eclipse docs just say that a window can have many pages, but when does that happen? Under what circumstances is the number of pages more than one?
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