Re: [tycho-user] Debugging a Tycho plugin project inside Eclipse

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It did so suggest, and I installed it with the results as described.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Anton Tanasenko
<atg.sleepless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> When you import a maven/tycho project into eclipse as an m2e project, you
> should be presented with a dialog suggesting you to install m2eclipse-tycho
> connector (or you can get it manually at [1]).
> It will correctly configure your project as PDE project in eclipse.
>
>
> [1]
> https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/.m2e/connectors/m2eclipse-tycho/0.9.0/N/LATEST/
>
> 2016-03-10 17:38 GMT+02:00 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> I am working on an open source WTP based plug-in for Eclipse.
>> (Code is at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-eclipse-tools
>> if you want to take a look.)
>>
>> The project began inside the Eclipse PDE. Here I was able to "Run as
>> Eclipse Application" and Eclipse would launch an instance of itself
>> with my plugin installed. This was useful for debugging and
>> development.
>>
>> I then converted the build to a Maven-Tycho based process. The code
>> builds a plugin archive which can be locally installed into Eclipse.
>> When so installed, the plugin works, modulo the usual bugs and
>> glitches at this early stage of development, but it does work.
>>
>> What I have not yet figured out is how to bring the code back into
>> Eclipse in such a way as to enable me to "Run as Eclipse Application"
>> from inside Eclipse. Or rather, I can  "Run as Eclipse Application",
>> but the launched test instance of Eclipse does not include my plug-in.
>> (I can also build the code inside Eclipse.)
>>
>> Any suggestions? How do I load my Tycho project into Eclipse in such a
>> way that I can run and debug it inside Eclipse?
>>
>> Currently I am using a Maven import with m2e, but perhaps that isn't
>> the answer. Another project I've looked at has non-Maven based
>> settings just for Eclipse. Perhaps the question should be how can I
>> load my existing code into Eclipse as a plug-in project and keep the
>> two build configurations in sync?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> --
>> Elliotte Rusty Harold
>> elharo@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Anton.
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