Re: [equinox-dev] Dynamic UI available

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Equinox runtime code/drop will be
rolled into the eclipse base next week.  I've been keeping the UI
team up to date on your progress (feel free to post on the eclipse-ui list
as well and point them at your stuff).  Once M5 has settled down,
we should work to get the UI dynamic enabled.  In the mean time, we
should do as Pascal suggests and make the dynamic UI available as a download.

Jeff

Pascal Rapicault/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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11/19/2003 11:51 AM

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Woody, this is great ! 

However I'm doubtfull that we can integrate the dynamic-UI directly into
the equinox drop, but we can surely make an dynamic-ui drop available from
the webpage. 
The fundamental reason for not integrating it is that there is a lot of
people in the eclipse team that are selfhosting with equinox and need to
use the latest version of the UI: new usage of API, test of new features,
etc. 

If you need any help to create your drop, let me know.

        PaScaL

Woody Huang <ywh@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/19/2003 01:36 PM

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Thanks to Rafael who fixed an bundle-uninstallation bug, dynamic UI (org.eclipse.ui.workbench)
is now working with the latest Equinox.  The source is based on Eclipse
I20031113 build and is available off HEAD.  Jeff/Pascal, could you
add org.eclipse.ui.workbench to the next binary release of Equinox? Thanks.

To test dynamic UI, this is what I do: 

1. start a new runtime workbench with -condole option on
2. when the new workbench is up, do "status" on osgi console
to find out the bundle id for jdt.ui or pde.ui plugin
3. at the osgi console, "uninstall" jdt.ui (or pde.ui)
4. go back to the new workbench to see that all visible ui extensions (perspectives,
views, new project wizard, etc.) for jdt.ui (or pde.ui) are gone
5. at the osgi console, do "install reference:fie:<path-of-plugins>.org.eclipse.jdt.ui_3.0.0,
you should get a bundle id 
6. at the console, "start" this bundle id
7. now go to the new workbench to see that ui extensions for jdt.ui should
be back in the workbench 

If you want to start the runtime off the project instead of binary, the
org.eclipse.ui.workbench assumes other projects not in Equinox. You need
to fix the build path (e.g., adding external jars) first. 

Woody Huang
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