| eclipse "platform" distribution. [message #101847] |
Mon, 28 July 2003 19:53 |
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Hello All,
I'm writing a plug-in that works as a server. This plug-in includes custom
application and makes some special efforts to make sure that there no "ui"
plug-ins are activated when this custom application launches. What I would
like to know is whether Eclipse 3.0. will be available in a "basic"
distribution that will include only "core" plug-ins and will be designed to
work in UI-less environment (i.e. include some UI-less launcher instead of
eclipse.exe for win32).
Also, my plug-in starts tomcat server that is bundled with Eclipse, but due
to the restricted access to the tomcat libraries (defined in the
org.eclipse.tomcat plug-in) I have to launch tomcat not using its API
directly, but have to create my own class loader that gives me access to
all tomcat classes, and only then launch and configure my tomcat instance.
What is the intention beside the restrictive access to tomcat classes
(taking in account that tomcat classes could be accessed if required, but
not in "straightforward" way)?
If it is done not to bother about different tomcat versions compatibility,
why not to give one a possibility to launch no just a single webapp (it is
possible through an extension point), that will be accessilbe as
http://host:port/webappname/, but to launch tomcat instance with custom
configuration (not a one hardcoded within Eclipse) and that will later be
accessible, for instance, as http://host:port/ ? More or less "correct"
solution (no custom class loader involved :)) now is to bundle one more
tomcat with the plug-in in addition to one bundled with Eclipse, but this
option looks like a bit heavy one.
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best regards,
alexander kitaev
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