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Equinox p2 dependencies responsible for watched directories [message #778312]

Thu, 12 January 2012 10:23

Eugene Kondrashev

Messages: 8
Registered: January 2012

Junior Member

Hi experts

I'm integrating equinox functionality into existing java application.

The requirements are:
* Start the framework so all plugins available at droppins folder will be discovered and installed automatically
* Enable watched directories functionality so all new plugins placed in droppins folder will be discovered and installed(updated) automatically.

Currently i'm stuck with resolving p2 dependencies responsible for this functionality. In other words I need only those list of dependencies that do the job, so I can limit build procedure with minimal dependencies needed.

I was trying to use tycho to build the application I need, but the only similar application available from examples is itp04-rcp, but that produces a lot of dependencies + gui jars/so's and binaries that i'm not interested in.

Currently I have a solution with minimal dependencies:
osgi
|-- org_eclipse_equinox_common.jar
|-- org_eclipse_osgi.jar
`-- plugins
`-- my-bundle-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
But with no watched dirs mechanism.

As I understood from the docs, I can add simpleconfigurator with:
configuration/
config.ini
org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/
bundles.info
,so i can give a list of all the plug-ins to be installed, but again that without watched dirs functionality.

Another question here is how the framework should be started from the java code to enable all these mechanisms properly. My guess is that EclipseStarter should be used.
But i would really appreciate the code snippet of doing this.

Thanks,
Eugene

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