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Restart eclipse from command line [message #331478]

Tue, 09 September 2008 09:28

Eclipse User

Hi,

I have a perl script that install various plug-ins from the command line
using the equinox jar. What I am missing is a restart of eclipse ( if
running) to make the new plugins show up. Is it possible to restart
eclipse from the command line?

cheers,

//mike

Re: Restart eclipse from command line [message #331485 is a reply to message #331478]

Tue, 09 September 2008 16:14

Eclipse User

The only way I know to do something like this was if the running eclipse
was running with the console on some port (-console 9000), you can then
telnet to that port and issue commands to the osgi framework. exit,
shutdown, and close will all stop the running eclipse, but I couldn't
get it to return the proper exit code 23 to cause a restart, so the perl
script would need to do the restart itself.

An alternative would be to install a plug-ins that opened a socket and
listened for commands to restart eclipse from within.

-Andrew
Mikael Petterson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a perl script that install various plug-ins from the command line
> using the equinox jar. What I am missing is a restart of eclipse ( if
> running) to make the new plugins show up. Is it possible to restart
> eclipse from the command line?
>
> cheers,
>
> //mike

Re: Restart eclipse from command line [message #331493 is a reply to message #331478]

Wed, 10 September 2008 07:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bullet.magnet.example.com

mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com (Mikael Petterson) wrote in
news:ac8036ed549bfac9f41da4e66ee2d897$1@www.eclipse.org:

> Hi,
>
> I have a perl script that install various plug-ins from the command line
> using the equinox jar. What I am missing is a restart of eclipse ( if
> running) to make the new plugins show up. Is it possible to restart
> eclipse from the command line?
>
> cheers,
>
> //mike
>

You could kill and relaunch the eclipse process

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