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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WorkbenchWindowControlContribution isn't fully shown in Eclipse Neon

After switching to Eclipse Neon I noticed that WorkbenchWindowControlContribution's aren't fully shown. There weren't any problems with them in Eclipse Mars. A simple item consisting of a Label and a Text looks so in Neon: The code of the item is…
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import org.eclipse cannot be resolved

I just installed Eclipse Neon PDE and try to build a simple plugin project with the "Hello World" template. Unfortunately i get many "The import org.eclipse cannot be resolved" errors straight after creating the plugin project. This is the project…
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Eclipse PDE and log4j.properties?

I have created an eclipse PDE project and have added log4j as a dependency using the slf4j-api and slf4j.log4j12 bundles. In a class I have created the logger: import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; public class MyTest { …
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Showing markers in the Eclipse "file compare" view

I've added some functionality to the standard Eclipse "compare view" via a handler which is activated on the Compare view's popup (context) menu. One of the things that this handler does is add a marker at the selection location. However, markers…
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How to redefine help listener for StructuredTextEditor

We are developing Eclipse plugin project. We are using StructuredTextEditor for displaying XML data. Now we are integrating our documentation via the standard Eclipse help system. But for StructuredTextEditor it is not working. For…
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Eclipse PDE: Exclude test fragments from required plugins

I have an Eclipse RCP application with plugins and associated test fragments. When using the "Add required plugins" functionality in the launch or product configuration, the test fragments get added as well. Can I avoid this? My plugins don't depend…
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Best way to extend eclipse Java project wizard?

I am writing an eclipse plug-in and I need to provide a functionality to let the user create a custom project which is basically a plain old Java project with my jar as a dependency and my sample class in the source folder. It should also have my…
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Suggestions for Automated Code coverage for an Eclipse RCP?

I would like to include some code coverage into our nightly build process. We're using CruiseControl, Ant, and Buckminster. Buckminster drives checkout from multiple repositories, and the PDE building and packaging of the product. Has any one any…
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PDE headless build not building while IDE does (3rd parties uses directives unresolved)

We have a large OSGi project with some own bundles and hundreds of third parties bundles. After some tweaking of dependencies, we were able to produce a valid Launch Configuration that runs correctly and a product/feature configuration that builds…
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Internationalized strings in Eclipse plugin.xml file are not found when installed in Eclipse application

I have created 2 plugins, implementing an ODA driver plugin and its UI plugin for the BIRT extension to Eclipse. My plugins both work as expected when eclipse starts up another eclipse application where I can then test the plugins I am developing.…
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SWT Image concatenation or tiling / mosaic

I have an Eclipse RCP application that displays a lot (10k+) of small images next to each other, like a film strip. For each image, I am using a SWT Image object. This uses an excessive amount of memory and resources. I am looking for a more…
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Eclipse plugin development : How to listen events in Eclipse editor

I am trying to develop an eclipse plug-in. I am aware about the basics of this thing. In a sample plugin template when we click the menu entry (or button with eclipse icon in below image in this case) in testing instance of eclipse, execute method…
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Eclipse feature, force a plugin version

We have a dependency for a 3rd party library. org.apache.batik.css We use the Eclipse ORBIT repo, to get 3rd party plugin in a .target configuration file. The repo contains two versions: org.apache.batik.css (source) 1.6.0 …
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Eclipse plugin cannot find class from class folder

I'm developing an Eclipse plugin, and want to use some pre-compiled classes which I've put to lib/ folder in my project (so the directory structure looks like {proj_root}/lib/com/example/Required.class). Then I've added lib/ folder as class folder…
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Update Site Creation Automation

I've developed an eclipse plug in, and created a feature and an update site projects inside eclipse to publish it. What i am looking for, is a way to automate the process of creating my update site during our automatic build process through a…
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