I'm using PDE and in my build.xml I compile my code and try to create a coverage report using JaCoCo and JUnit. I noticed that it does now show the sourcefile, even though I added sourcefiles secti...

I'm using a target definition that references a P2 update site. Update site was updated recently with a plugin that has same version and qualifier as previous version, but different content. I've...

In our application which is a Eclipse plugin, when Eclipse starts it takes long time and the users are seeing "Initialize Java tooling" message on the left down corner of application. Because our u...

I created my own target definition. It worked perfectly until now. Today I opened this target definition and got following error for all software sites I have there: Unable to locate installable u...

We aim at using Tycho+Eclipse PDE to build OSGi bundles in a distributed team. So far artifacts are built and deployed to a Nexus OSS repository. This has been augmented with p2 support, "artifa...

I'm using Liquibase in OSGi bundle to update database. The problem is, when I start in in Eclipse, using PDE. I get then error: liquibase.exception.ChangeLogParseException: Error Reading Migration...

Since upgrading to Eclipse 3.7, the Eclipse PDE plugin wants me to specify an 'API Baseline' for all my Eclipse Plugin projects. However there seems to be no documentation which actually explains ...

I have written an Eclpise plugin (an Error Parser for the CDT), and it works just fine in the debugger version of eclipse. However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install the plugin i...

Now that eclipse 4.5 is out and the eclipse team decided to not build the so-called "delta-pack" anymore, I don'tknow how to perform a PDE headless build with ant.. Official PDE build documentatio...

There is an Eclipse Plugin managed by Maven containing this configuration: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLo...

I'm trying to create a New Project template for Eclipse CDT in order to address my question asked here. @Jonah Graham provided a very detailed walk-through in his answer to 1 and this has gotten me...

I am developing Eclipse plugins, and I need to be able to automate the building and execution of the test suite for each plugin. (Using Junit) Test are working within Eclipse, and I can break the ...

I recently upgraded from Eclipse Kepler to Luna. A plugin I had been working on is now showing build errors without any source being changed. Here is an extract from my MANIFEST.MF, Require-Bundl...

I have a plug-in to an Eclipse RCP application that has a view. After an event occurs in the RCP application, the plug-in is instantiated, its methods are called to populate the plug-in's model, bu...

I am writing an Eclipse plugin that will display a menu item in the context menu for a Java Project. I have written the plugin.xml as follows: <plugin> <extension point="org.eclipse.u...

I'm trying to obtain details of an Eclipse user's structured selection in the Navigator Tree view. At present I have the following which is based on the org.eclipse.ui.popMenus extension point: pu...

I need to confirm what I suspect as I cannot find any documentation on it, so this would appear a silly question, and since I am a learner at eclipse PDE. Initially, I had a parent project pom of...

I have a bunch of Eclipse plugins and features, which I would like to build as part of a nightly (headless) build. I've managed to do this using a complicated setup involving manually specifying pa...

I just re-installed eclipse, using the latest version (Indigo / 3.7), and I run into the exact same problem as I did half a year ago. I installed the eclipse java IDE, now how do I get the plugin d...

I'm finding it difficult to phrase this question well, as there are quite a few generic terms (run, configuration, launch, etc.). Here goes: You can save run configurations in a .launch file. (in ...

I've got a workspace with multiple RCP plugin projects. We've set the target platform, so we can build against a standard set of plugins, but are not able to see source code and Javadoc for all th...

I was wondering if there is a way to develop Eclipse plugins in Clojure. To be clear, the question is not about using Eclipse to write Clojure code. Both Eclipse and Clojure run on the JVM and I f...

In the Eclipse manifest editor, there exist check boxes for enabling/disabling plug-in activation and singleton behavior, as shown below: [ ] Activate this plug-in when one of its classes is loade...

The point of this question is to get verification from someone knowledgeable of the current state of affairs with the Eclipse install system. I have an Eclipse plugin and I want to make an update ...

I have two plugins, say com.site.plugin.core and com.site.plugin.ui. I'd like to separate core part from UI part, so at plugin com.site.plugin.ui I created Preferences page where I defined some pre...