[stellation-res] One last core installation question and 3rd party libs

[Jeffrey Howard <jhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Well, now that Stellation is passing all the script tests on my
server, I've been getting a small trial project together that I can
work on using Stellation.

I ran into one last snag trying to get Stellation up and running: this
time with the server script, stellationd.  There's a variable
declaration toward the top:

my $javahome = "${java.dir}";

My Perl is a little rusty.  Is this fetching an environment variable
called java.dir?  Or is it meant to be replaced by ant in the build
process with the user's actual java home directory?  In any case, I
didn't have it defined, so I got the following error printed to
stderr, "Error starting server process."

This was very easy to work around.  I just changed the assignment to
$javahome to be the directory where I had installed Java.  The server
is now up and running quite well.


Next I moved on to installing the Eclipse plugin for Stellation.  I
downloaded the 3rd-Party Plug-ins for Stellation, packaged up in
stelLibs.zip.  When the update manager tries to install the feature, I
get an error message:

Unable to complete action for feature "3rd-Party Plug-ins for
Stellation" due to errors.

When I look at the details section of the error dialog, I see:

Unable to retrieve remote reference:
"file:/home/jhoward/temp/stellation/stellationLibs/features/org.eclipse.stellation.3rdparty.feature_1.0.0/about.html".
[/home/jhoward/temp/stellationLibs/features/org.eclipse.stellation.3rdparty.feature_1.0.0/about.html
(No such file or directory)]


It looks as though Eclipse is looking for an about.html file in the
fragment and is not finding one.  I tried to just add an about.html
file to the org.eclipse.stellation.3rdparty.feature_1.0.0.jar file,
but I kept getting the same error.

Just before trying to install the feature, I moved up to a clean
install of Eclipse M4.  Perhaps M4 requires an about.html file to be
packaged with features?  I think start looking through the changes
made between M3 and M4 and see if anything stands out.

Jeffrey