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Eclipse stopped treating plug-in project as a plug-in project [message #68560]

Tue, 21 July 2009 18:13

Michael Sullivan

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Registered: July 2009

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I have a series of (OSGi) plug-in projects that I was debugging. I'm not
sure what I could have changed in any of the projects, but all of a sudden
one of them was not seeing any of its imported packages anymore, and
projects that depended on it were not seeing its exports.

It still has a plug in nature in the .project file, and
plugin-dependencies shows up in the buildpath, but with no plug-ins listed
in it. It also doesn't show up in Package explorer (I believe because of
the lack of plug-ins).

There are not errors give in the manifest editor.

I tried deleting the project and re-adding it, but no luck there.

Right clicking on PDE Tools does not give the menu option to convert to a
plug-in project - it has the menu given for an existing plug-in project.

Exactly what is it that tells Eclipse a project is a plug-in?

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: Eclipse stopped treating plug-in project as a plug-in project [message #68572 is a reply to message #68560]

Tue, 21 July 2009 22:08

Chris Aniszczyk

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Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Exactly what is it that tells Eclipse a project is a plug-in?

Weird... does this help?

http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/FAQ#How_do_I_know_if_my_project_ is_a_plug-in_project

Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
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Re: Eclipse stopped treating plug-in project as a plug-in project [message #68582 is a reply to message #68572]

Wed, 22 July 2009 02:17

Michael Sullivan

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Registered: July 2009

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Thanks but I did check, and it did have a Plugin Nature. I 'fixed' my
problem by creating a new project and copying all of the relevant files to
it. It found all of its dependencies and everything dependent on it
compiled successfully as well. Still can't find what the difference
between the two was -I compared each file individually with Eclipse
closed. (.classpath,.project,.settings, etc)

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