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Can I put Eclipse plugins into my features? [message #249992]

Mon, 07 June 2004 05:32

Michael Keppler

Messages: 164
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi all,

I'm thinking about how to deploy my RCP application. It needs more
plugins than available in the RCP binary. So I had the idea to include
the needed Eclipse plugins into my features. But the feature editor
obviously only accepts plugins of my workspace to include. Is there any
possibility to include Eclipse plugins into my features?

I know that I could simply copy all the needed plugins into the ZIP file
of my exported RCP application but that has one big disadvantage: The
Eclipse plugins are not included in any feature then and therefore can't
be updated via the update manager along with my own plugins.

Has anybody of the RCP developers found a solution for this problem yet?

Ciao, Michael.

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Re: Can I put Eclipse plugins into my features? [message #250000 is a reply to message #249992]

Mon, 07 June 2004 06:58

James Willans

Messages: 303
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Michael,

The approach I have taken is to import the plugins into my workspace and
then build a new feature that encapsulates the subset of the plugins that
I'm interested in. It would be nice if this could be done automatically
based on the settings of a PDE run configuration (i.e. build me an
application based on this configuration). I know that there is a bug
reports in of this nature but I am not sure of the status of this.

James

Michael Keppler wrote:

> Hi all,

> I'm thinking about how to deploy my RCP application. It needs more
> plugins than available in the RCP binary. So I had the idea to include
> the needed Eclipse plugins into my features. But the feature editor
> obviously only accepts plugins of my workspace to include. Is there any
> possibility to include Eclipse plugins into my features?

> I know that I could simply copy all the needed plugins into the ZIP file
> of my exported RCP application but that has one big disadvantage: The
> Eclipse plugins are not included in any feature then and therefore can't
> be updated via the update manager along with my own plugins.

> Has anybody of the RCP developers found a solution for this problem yet?

> Ciao, Michael.

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