Re: [ptp-dev] Question about procedure to fix a PTP problem

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

You need to put the new plugin in the "dropins" folder rather than the  
"plugins" folder. At launch time, Eclipse then tries to "install" the  
plugin for you in the same way that the update manager installs new  
plugins. Having said that, I've found it very hard to get a new plugin  
to work because if any of the dependency checks fail the installation  
won't happen. The problem is that Eclipse provides no way of finding  
out (that I've been able to discover) why the plugin failed to install.

Greg

On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Dave Wootton wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting this to work. I made a change to a class in
> org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.pe.ui then exported the project into my plugins
> directory and restarted Eclipse. After Eclipse restarts, it still  
> loads
> the old jar file. I verified this by looking at the plugin details  
> list
> and seeing the jar file with the old timestamp in the list. If I start
> Eclipse with the -clean flag that doesn't make any difference. I  
> looked in
> the .log file in my workspace and I see that the -clean flag is  
> passed in,
> but I don't see any  messages related to this jar file. If I rename  
> the
> old jar files so the only one available is the one I just exprted, it
> still doesn't get loaded. When I do that, I get errors when I open  
> the run
> configuration dialog since it can't load the required classes.
>
> This is on a Windows XP system if that makes any difference.
>
> Is there something else I need to do to get this to work?
> Dave
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> Dave,
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> Yes, export as "deployable plug-ins and fragments", choose the plugin
> you want, and under "options" check the "Package plugins as individual
> JAR archieves"  option (except if this is one of the C plugins like
> the proxy or utils). All other options should be unchecked. Then copy
> the jar file into you eclipse plugins directory and restart eclipse.
> It should pick up the new plugin automatically (you might need to do a
> -clean on linux).
>
> Greg
>
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Dave Wootton wrote:
>
> > I have run into a problem with one of my plugins in PTP 2.0 that I
> > need to
> > update one of the plugins packaged in the PTP 2.0 download. How do I
> > go
> > about doing this? Do I just select the project containing the class
> > I need
> > to update and use the export wizard (File->Export) to export the
> > project
> > as a jar file and then copy that jar file into the plugins
> > directory, or
> > do I need to do something else? If I use the export wizard, is there
> > anything I need to export other than class files? Are there other
> > settings
> > in the wizard that I need to worry about?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
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