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changes to plugin.xml requires a clean start [message #525448]

Tue, 06 April 2010 11:39

Eclipse User

Hi all,
in my deployed application I changed a property of the plugin.xml file and restarted the application again, but the old application was still there. After a while I tried to do a --clean start and the updated property has been read. This means to me that plugin.xml is used only once, when the application is clean started, and then it is translated into a binary form of some kind. Is this correct? Where is this database translation kept?

Re: changes to plugin.xml requires a clean start [message #525696 is a reply to message #525448]

Wed, 07 April 2010 09:20

Eclipse User

Yes, the registry is read on startup and then saved in a compact form
elsewhere. Starting with -clean causes the cache to be emptied and
re-built.

If you hunt around the eclipse/configuration directory long enough you
can probably find its location ... but it's not a user-editable format.

PW

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