Re: [platform-core-dev] eclipse.ignoreApp property and "-noExit" argumen

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have not followed the details of this
thread but as a minimum it seems we should have bug report to make this
easier.  Feels like it would be some minor tweaks on our part  People
looking to deploy Equinox based systems using JNLP should not have to have
an application.

Jason, can you summarize the situation
in an Eclipse/Equinox/Framework bug report?

Jeff

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Tom,

Thank you for your understanding. If I need to define an application, could
tell me the steps or some documents I can refer to? You know, I have no
eclipse plugins or RCP experiences. I'm focusing on  equinox now.

On 11/2/06, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Pascal, in Jason's scenario there is no defined eclipse application running
(because eclipse.ignoreApp=true) so EclipseStarter.run(String[] args, Runnable
endSplashHandler) will return very fast.  The OSGi Framework will
still be active (because osgi.noShudown=true).  But in this case control
of the main thread is given back to WebStartMain which calls System.exit(result).

I think Jason has a point, maybe WebStartMain should not exit the VM if
osgi.noShudown=true.  Jason, another option may be for you to define
a headless application that does not return until you want the framework
to shutdown and the VM to exit. 

Tom.

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Pascal,

In fact before I sent the mail I debugged the code line by line. It seemed
everything is okay. My activator was called, no exception thrown and the
Main.run() method finished with exit code 0. 

I read the code. The The EclipseStarter.class checks the osgi.noShudown
property. Main.class checks the osgi.noShudown property too. But when the
control is back to WebStartMain.class, it simply calls System.exit() without
checking the osgi.noShudown property. I guess the control should not be
back to the WebStartMain.class until an OSGi application terminates.

I also debugged as an equinox application. I found the Main.main() method
exited after OSGi framework starts. But it left some threads keep running
like "Frame Event Dispatcher", "Start Level Event Dispatcher"
and etc. I didn't saw these threads there when I debugged it as web start
application. Is it normal or abnormal? 

On 11/2/06, Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote: 

>So I need to write a web start launcher by extending the WebStartMain
class but with a different main() method for this issue. Am I right? 
       No, I think the problem is somewhere else. It seems
that your arguments are not being processed correctly or not even passed
to eclipse. Have you check that the arguments are received by eclipse?
Did you check the log? 
       What I was trying to explain in my previous note
is that in a running eclipse, the entity responsible to decide whether
to exit or not is osgi itself not the webstartmain (see EclipseStart.run(,)
and its use of the property osgi.noShutdown.
) So even if you were to modify webstartMain, you would be left with a
process that does nothing since osgi would have shutdown anyway.

Does that make sense? 

PaScaL

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Yes, I know bug #162097.
I walked around it by changing the jar file name.For example, I changed
org.eclipse.osgi_3.2.1.R32x_v20060919.jar to org.eclipse.osgi_3.2.1.R32x.v20060919.jar
.

So I need to write a web start launcher by extending the WebStartMain class
but with a different main() method for this issue. Am I right?

On 11/1/06, Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote: 

The -noExit argument is honored by osgi itself and not by the launchers.
I think you may have another problem that causes the startup sequence to
fail. 
If you are trying to start equinox from eclipse 3.2.1, it might be the
problem bug #162097 

HTH 

PaScaL

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All,

I'm trying Java Web Start deployment with Equinox (Not RCP). In the JNLP
file, I set the property eclipse.ignoreApp=true. Also I appended the "-noExit"
argument to the main class. Just like below.

<application-desc main-class="org.eclipse.core.launcher.WebStartMain">
 <argument>-nosplash</argument>
 <argument>-noExit</argument>
</application-desc>

<resources>
 <!-- Reference to the startup.jar. This does not change --> 
 <jar href="">
 <property 
     name="eclipse.ignoreApp" 
     value="true"/>
...... 


The problem is the argument "-noExit" doesn't work. After check
the code, I notice WebStartMain.main () mehtod calls System.exit(), which
makes the web start application terminated. I wonder if osgi.noShutdown
property should be checked before calling System.exit().


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