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Advice on debugging pde [message #1278550]

Thu, 27 March 2014 09:41

Eclipse User

Hi,

I recently posted 2 questions on the forum on 2 issues. The first is why pde is trying to load plugins not in my dependency tree and the second is why it cannot load a plugin dependency at runtime that is in my dependency tree. I searched the forum and there are a fair number of questions like this with zero replies. Once you understand the versioning restrictions available to specify there does not seem to be a lot that can go wrong.

The documentation just does not seem to cover these problems. It is not as if we have a choice if we want to use Eclipse RCP, we have to use pde. Since I am totally unable to continue work until this is resolved I will have to debug pde myself.

Any advice on where to start?

Thx.

David

[Updated on: Thu, 27 March 2014 09:44] by Moderator

Re: Advice on debugging pde [message #1278631 is a reply to message #1278550]

Thu, 27 March 2014 12:11

Eclipse User

Hi,

Well this appears to relate to flakiness of how PDE discovers plugin dependencies.

If you create a Debug configuration from your product file, in my case CDOServer.product, then
1. you go an select the Plug-ins tab in the Debug Configuration
2. then click "Add Required plug-ins"

it may build a dependency that just does not work.

It seems you have do step 1 above, then
2. "Deselect All"
3. Select your own package
4. Click "Add Required plug-ins" a few times until the number of required plugins stop increasing, see the display "x out of y selected"

Then it worked ok. I must have missed this in the documentation...

Hope this helps others.

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