Hi,
2) Run the resulting binaries, load my PDE projects
into it and reproduce the problem under debugger.
I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but I've added an
hopefully helpful note to
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Platform_Build#Build_output:_p2_repo_and_RCP_products
explaining where you can find the resulting products.
But your use-case seems to be a good candidate for usage of a PDE
target platform to reference existing products as target (rather
than rebuilding them). See http://help.eclipse.org/neon/nav/4_3_9_6
4) Build an installer from the resulting sources and
replace my existing installation with it.
The Eclipse Platform and PDE projects allow to build an archive of
an RCP application and a p2 repository. It doesn't include anything
about an installer. If you want to get an installer from an RCP
application, I recommend you to get in touch with the Oomph
community or additional software to create installers.
5) A side issue: since m2eclipse doesn't support all
the Maven plugins used in the build, it's unclear how to work with
the sources from Eclipse.
The Maven configuration of Platform is expected to just follow the
PDE part, so when developing, you don't have to care about Maven as
PDE has control.
HTH
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