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Re: [ide-dev] Some Infos About Oomph 
Am 28.01.2015 um 13:08 schrieb Max Rydahl Andersen:

Where can I try that nice oomph looking installer ?

You can download it from http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer


and is there a a way to reuse it for building my own custom installer of
non-eclipse.org content, such as JBoss Tools and/or JBoss Developer Studio  ?
Yes, you'd need to repackage the installer with a slightly modified oomph.ini option. But let me start with some details about how product and project profiles are discovered (I'll omit the word "profiles"):
Each product is logically contained in a product catalog and each project is logically either contained in a project catalog or, if it's a sub-project, in another project. All catalogs are logically contained in a catalog index. The index also contains pointers to SetupTask extension packages. All products, projects and extensions are thereby discoverable from the index. Physically the containment can an href, i.e., the entire index tree can be fragmented into many files. These files are typically accessible through a web browser.
At Eclipse.org we maintain a default index: http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/org.eclipse.setup And the Eclipse.org product catalog: http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/org.eclipse.products.setup And the Eclipse.org project catalog: http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/org.eclipse.projects.setup And a Github.com project catalog: http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/com.github.projects.setup
The index and all the elements contained in it are referenced through logical URIs, for example index:/org.eclipse.setup for the index itself. The physical URIs are determined by Oomph's general URI-redirection facility, which is controlled through two different mechansims: 

1) URIRedirectionTasks that are specified in the applicable profiles, for example the user profile.
2) System properties (or env vars if the dots are replaced by underscores) that are for example specified in the eclipse.ini (or oomph.ini for that matter). They have the form 

    "-Doomph.redirection." + someID + "=" + fromURI + "->" + toURI"

The involved URIs can point to directories, in which case they redirect that directory and its contents.
The physical URI of our default catalog is hard-coded in Oomph, but it can be easily redirected to any other location. So, one way to provide a custom installer is to add the following to the oomph.ini file: 

-Doomph.redirection.index=index:/org.eclipse.setup->http://foo.bar.com/setups/index.setup
On the other hand it might be better that you don't maintain an own index and require your users to use a repackaged installer. Instead we could add a new product catalog to the existing index at Eclipse.org. You could add your products there and people would see them immediately and could install them with their existing Oomph installer. If that sounds interesting I suggest you submit a bugzilla so that we can discuss the details. 

Cheers
/Eike

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