| Information on self hosting [message #30098] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 21:10 |
 Sandip Chitale
Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009
Location: California, USA |
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The Plug-in Development Environment Guild's Tips and Tricks section has
this blurb on self hosting:
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Feature-based self-hosting The current method of self-hosting in
Eclipse is plug-in-based. PDE launches a second run-time workbench
instance by passing an array of plug-ins that it should load. A regular
Eclipse product is feature-based: during startup, it checks all the
features that should be active, computes plug-ins that belong to those
features, and passes the result for loading.
This difference in behavior makes it complicated to self-host in
scenarios where a full startup that involves features is required. PDE
now supports this scenario if care is taken with the setup:
1. The workspace needs to be <work-area>/plugins.
2. Features must be imported into the workspace using the new
'Feature Import' wizard (they will be created in <work-area>/features).
3. All plug-ins must be in the workspace (either in source or
imported as binary projects WITHOUT linking).
4. When launching, Run-time Workbench launcher must be configured to
use features (in Plug-ins and Fragments tab).
If all these conditions are met, the runtime Eclipse instance will be
launched in a way that is the closest possible approximation of a normal
Eclipse startup. This facilitates testing About dialogs and other
aspects that may depend on the set of installed features.
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Is there any more information available on this. Can anyone share their
experience with setting up an environment like the one described above
to do the development?
thanks in advance,
Sandip
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