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Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84406]

Mon, 19 March 2007 16:06

Eclipse User

Some feature vendors create JAR files for their feature:

# jar -tvf /opt/eclipse/features/org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1.3.6. jar
2186 Mon Oct 16 00:10:16 BST 2006 feature.properties
2172 Mon Oct 16 00:10:16 BST 2006 feature.xml

# jar -tvf
/opt/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v2007030 61126.jar
7919 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 feature.properties
2431 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 feature.xml
6051 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 license.html

But at startup inside $HOME/workspace/.metadata/.log

!SESSION 2007-03-19 19:52:04.838
-----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20070212-1330
java.version=1.5.0_08
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -clean

!ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2007-03-19 19:52:05.814
!MESSAGE Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
/data/opt/eclipse/features/org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1 .3.6.jar

!ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2007-03-19 19:52:05.826
!MESSAGE Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
/data/opt/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v20 0703061126.jar

Even the error message indicates its trying to access to file as a
directory.

Should I open a bug report for this, is it expected to work ?

The offenders come from the following vendors:

org.tigris.subversion.subclipse_1.2.0.jar
org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v200703061126.jar
org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1.3.6.jar
org.mozilla.javascript.feature_1.6.2.jar

I have Platform, WTP, DTP, TPTP, CDT, VE, EMF, GEF, JEM, BIRT, Hibernate
all loaded and all of these vendors choose to ship.

Maybe the problem is that I am installing from ZIPs and some ZIPs are
just the updatesite as-is while others are a special installation ZIP
(i.e. there is no site.xml in the ZIP), Arrrggghhh!

Darryl

Re: Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84421 is a reply to message #84406]

Mon, 19 March 2007 20:23

Eclipse User

Yes. When they are available on an update site. This is the default format.
No once they have been installed (at least as far as I remember).

PaScaL

"Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> wrote in message
news:etmqfq$9gf$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>
> Some feature vendors create JAR files for their feature:
>
> # jar -tvf /opt/eclipse/features/org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1.3.6. jar
> 2186 Mon Oct 16 00:10:16 BST 2006 feature.properties
> 2172 Mon Oct 16 00:10:16 BST 2006 feature.xml
>
>
> # jar -tvf
> /opt/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v2007030 61126.jar
> 7919 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 feature.properties
> 2431 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 feature.xml
> 6051 Tue Mar 06 13:55:24 GMT 2007 license.html
>
>
>
> But at startup inside $HOME/workspace/.metadata/.log
>
> !SESSION 2007-03-19
> 19:52:04.838 -----------------------------------------------
> eclipse.buildId=M20070212-1330
> java.version=1.5.0_08
> java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
> BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
> Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64 -clean
>
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2007-03-19 19:52:05.814
> !MESSAGE Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
> /data/opt/eclipse/features/org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1 .3.6.jar
>
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2007-03-19 19:52:05.826
> !MESSAGE Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
> /data/opt/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v20 0703061126.jar
>
>
>
>
> Even the error message indicates its trying to access to file as a
> directory.
>
> Should I open a bug report for this, is it expected to work ?
>
>
> The offenders come from the following vendors:
>
> org.tigris.subversion.subclipse_1.2.0.jar
> org.eclipse.atf.feature_0.2.1.v200703061126.jar
> org.springframework.ide.eclipse_1.3.6.jar
> org.mozilla.javascript.feature_1.6.2.jar
>
> I have Platform, WTP, DTP, TPTP, CDT, VE, EMF, GEF, JEM, BIRT, Hibernate
> all loaded and all of these vendors choose to ship.
>
>
> Maybe the problem is that I am installing from ZIPs and some ZIPs are just
> the updatesite as-is while others are a special installation ZIP (i.e.
> there is no site.xml in the ZIP), Arrrggghhh!
>
>
> Darryl

Re: Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84450 is a reply to message #84421]

Tue, 20 March 2007 12:27

Eclipse User

"Pascal Rapicault" <pascal_rapicault@ca.ibm.com> wrote in
news:etn9jh$ps9$1@utils.eclipse.org:

>
> Yes. When they are available on an update site. This is the default
> format. No once they have been installed (at least as far as I
> remember).
>
> PaScaL

I believe Pascal is right. I do dnot think I implemented code to run
features in a JAR format.
There is a way to install JAR features from a local file system though.
Basically we take a decision on the format based on the URL (hhtp->jar,
file-> unjarred) <yes you can criticize the architecture :) >

So if you set a type in your site.xml (i believe http), then we will
believe the site is an HTTP format even if you access it using file:///

This is just for installing though, as pascal mentioned...

--
Christophe Elek
Serviceability Architect
IBM Software Group - Rational

Re: Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84463 is a reply to message #84450]

Tue, 20 March 2007 12:54

Eclipse User

Christophe Elek wrote:
> "Pascal Rapicault" <pascal_rapicault@ca.ibm.com> wrote in
> news:etn9jh$ps9$1@utils.eclipse.org:
>
>> Yes. When they are available on an update site. This is the default
>> format. No once they have been installed (at least as far as I
>> remember).
>>
>> PaScaL
>
> I believe Pascal is right. I do dnot think I implemented code to run
> features in a JAR format.
> There is a way to install JAR features from a local file system though.
> Basically we take a decision on the format based on the URL (hhtp->jar,
> file-> unjarred) <yes you can criticize the architecture :) >
>
> So if you set a type in your site.xml (i believe http), then we will
> believe the site is an HTTP format even if you access it using file:///
>
> This is just for installing though, as pascal mentioned...

Thanks for the confirmation both.

Using the GUI to auto-update is not an option for me, it takes too many
useful man hours per day to reinstall Eclipse time after time. When
testing 32bit / 64bit and various combinations of components.

The only criticism is the lack of uniformity in behavior increases the
amount of voodoo surrounding the platform.

Some plugin/feature vendors provide an update site and a ZIPed up update
site. Unfortunately a ZIPed up update site can't be installed verbatim
and AFAIK the Eclipse platform does not provide an automated headless
command line function to install a component.

../eclipse -install-from-site-jar my_favorite_vendor_suite_1.0.jar

My solution is a shell script to detect features that appeared as JAR
files after everything was unzipped and extract them by hand:

function install_feature {
src="$1"
destdir="$2"
src_basename=$(basename "${src}" ".jar")
src_dirname=$(dirname "${src}")

if [ -d "${destdir}" ]
then
mkdir "${destdir}/${src_basename}"
echo "Created: ${destdir}/${src_basename}"
(
cp -f "${src}" "/tmp/sh$$.zip"
cd "${destdir}/${src_basename}" || exit 1
echo -- $UNZIP_EXEC "/tmp/sh$$.zip" -x site.xml
$UNZIP_EXEC "/tmp/sh$$.zip" -x site.xml
rm -f "/tmp/sh$$.zip"
)
fi
}

for i in $(find "eclipse/features" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jar" -type f)
do
echo "${i}"
install_feature "${i}" "eclipse/features/"
rm "${i}"
done

Darryl

Re: Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84855 is a reply to message #84463]

Thu, 22 March 2007 18:41

Eclipse User

"Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> wrote in news:460011CE.9060703
@netbauds.net:

> Some plugin/feature vendors provide an update site and a ZIPed up update
> site. Unfortunately a ZIPed up update site can't be installed verbatim
> and AFAIK the Eclipse platform does not provide an automated headless
> command line function to install a component.
>
> ./eclipse -install-from-site-jar my_favorite_vendor_suite_1.0.jar
>

Darryl,
I presume this did not help ?

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/platform-update-
home/doc/working/documentation/standalone_update.html?view=c o

--
Christophe Elek
Serviceability Architect
IBM Software Group - Rational

Re: Can features be bundled as JARs ? [message #84901 is a reply to message #84855]

Fri, 23 March 2007 14:21

Eclipse User

Christophe Elek wrote:
>> Some plugin/feature vendors provide an update site and a ZIPed up update
>> site. Unfortunately a ZIPed up update site can't be installed verbatim
>> and AFAIK the Eclipse platform does not provide an automated headless
>> command line function to install a component.
>>
>> ./eclipse -install-from-site-jar my_favorite_vendor_suite_1.0.jar
>>
>
> Darryl,
> I presume this did not help ?
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/platform-update-
> home/doc/working/documentation/standalone_update.html?view=c o

Thanks for this, this will be useful for automatic the "feature
enablement" process when testing with a fresh configuration. I'll try a
version which does the complete feature/plugin install when I've a moment.

For those looking for the published version of that CVS I think it is here:

http://help.eclipse.org/help31/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/update_standalone.html

Darryl

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