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Feature Not showing up [message #289673]

Tue, 09 August 2005 19:37

Bindul Bhowmik

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I wrote an Eclipse Plug-in and a Feature. I used the generated ant build
files from plugin.xml and feature.xml to build and distribute my feature.

Everything works fine and I am even able to enable and disable my feature
from the Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration tool. Everything
works fine, but the issue I am facing is that the feature does not show up
in Help > About Eclipse Platform > Feature Details.

Any ideas?

Also, in the feature.xml file what is a Branding Plug-in? Any pointers to
good articles on writing features? I saw a lot on plug-ins on the eclipse
site, but not many on features.

TIA
Bindul

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Re: Feature Not showing up [message #289675 is a reply to message #289673]

Tue, 09 August 2005 20:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com

To get a feature to show up in the About->Feature Details you need to
have a plugin in the feature with the same id.

I.e. if the feature is x.y.z you will need a plugin of id x.y.z in the
feature too. It can be empty and not have anything other than the
manifest.mf. It doesn't have to have any code or libraries in it. Just
the manifest.

I'm not sure, but it may also need to have the following files too in
the plugin, or this may only be needed for branding.

about.mapping
about.properties
about.ini
about.html

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp

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