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Exporting DSL Plugins as Eclipse Product [message #1248740]

Mon, 17 February 2014 16:05

Gary Worsham

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Registered: September 2013

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I'm trying to export my DSL plugins (two of them, related to the same final application) as a new Eclipse product. I'm trying to follow Lars Vogel's tutorial:

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseProductDeployment/article.html

however this describes an RCP application which mine is not.

Quote:

A product always points to one Application class. This Application class must implement the IApplication interface and for Eclipse 4 RCP applications it should point to the org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.E4Application class.

Q #1: Do I have to write an RCP application? I am expecting that a person running the exported Eclipse would have the same experience that I do when I run "Eclipse application" from my Xtext/Xtend DSL environment. Just a regular Eclipse/Java IDE with my custom plugins also installed by default.

The Eclipse Product export tutorial describes a different entry for the "Application" setting: org.eclipse.core.runtime.products

http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.pde.doc.user%2Fguide%2Ftools%2Feditors%2Fproduct_editor%2Foverview.htm

I'm not having much luck with this tool, although I have a few error messages to follow.

Q #2: Can anyone tell me how to determine the correct entry for the "Application" class?

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