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Running a set of eclipse bundles as an application [message #716784]

Thu, 18 August 2011 09:16

Eclipse User

I want to start Eclipse CDO as an application in virgo. Eclipse CDO is available as a set of eclipse plugins and has dependencies on eclipse.core.runtime, eclipse.core.expressions, etc.
Is this possible? If yes: How do I "package" that set of eclipse plugins as an application to start in virgo?

Re: Running a set of eclipse bundles as an application [message #716805 is a reply to message #716784]

Thu, 18 August 2011 10:00

Eclipse User

You may want to check the PAR and Plan artifacts supported by Virgo. We have the concept described on our wiki [1] and you can find more information in the documentation [2] (I suppose you are using 3.0)

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Virgo/Concepts#Artifacts
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/documentation/virgo-documentation-3.0.0.x/docs/virgo-programmer-guide/html/index.html

Re: Running a set of eclipse bundles as an application [message #716831 is a reply to message #716805]

Thu, 18 August 2011 10:35

Eclipse User

I recommend the plan approach as it's easier to do and gives you more flexibility after you have deployed.

Re: Running a set of eclipse bundles as an application [message #717715 is a reply to message #716831]

Mon, 22 August 2011 03:29

Eclipse User

I have tried the PLAN approach...
I tried to "transform" my PDE .product file to a .plan file...
Though, in a .product file, I can define which bundles start at which start level.
Is this not supported in a plan file?

Furthermore, I am getting into this troubles:
When looking at the bundle overview, I can see that o.e.equinox.registry is not started which is needed by EMF.

I am sure that running EMF CDO in virgo is a big advantage over the existing deployment approaches and will make virgo attractive to the EMF CDO community...

Re: Running a set of eclipse bundles as an application [message #717735 is a reply to message #717715]

Mon, 22 August 2011 04:23

Eclipse User

The plan does not support start levels. If you want to have some artefacts started before the rest of the plans you may use the initialArtifacts property [1] of the user region. This is especially useful for frameworks.

If you want to group some bundles you can use the grouping/library features [2] offered by Virgo.

By default all artefacts in a plan are started by Virgo. The equinox.registry bundle however has lazy activation policy, so the start in this case should leave the bundle in STARTING start (shown as "<lazy>" in equinox) if no class loading operation is attempted. Perhaps this is the issue here?

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/documentation/virgo-documentation-3.0.0.x/docs/virgo-user-guide/htmlsingle/virgo-user-guide.html#configuring-kernel
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/documentation/virgo-documentation-3.0.0.x/docs/virgo-user-guide/htmlsingle/virgo-user-guide.html#concepts.grouping

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