In my Eclipse project, I defined a simple plugin (bundle), a feature that includes the plugin and a product that includes the feature. When I export the poduct (via the "Eclipse Product export wiz...

When trying to add a Software Site (p2 plugin repository - either one generated by p2 Publisher or Nexus with p2 support) to a target definition via the "Target Definition Wizard" there seem to ...

I'm wondering: What is the best way of adding a bundle to a p2 based target platform? I don't want to use local directories, I want to have a target platform that works 'out of the box' for all our...

I just downloaded Eclipse SDK 3.5.1 and want to install some add ons such as GEF, EMF, etc. I downloaded all the zip files for everything I needed and decided to install them in the dropins folder...

I'm using Tycho 0.16.0 and I'm getting the following error: Error - 7 icon(s) not replaced in C:\Users\weich01\AppData\Local\Temp\p2.brandingIron8219115442087687624\launcher.exe using C:\Developme...

I'm building an RCP and several other plug-ins with Maven & Tycho. This works very fine, unless one issue: On every(!) build, Tycho loads all needed eclipse librarys, even when the where alrea...

I need to install an eclipse plugin to a machine not connected to the Internet and I cannot find a dist to use for a local install. Is there a tool for downloading a plugin from an update site and...

I'm creating a product based on Eclipse 3.6.2 for our project. The idea is to create an Eclipse installation that has all the plugins we require and all configuration are setup as we need them for ...

I am building an RCP application that will be made up of several Features. My RCP application is configured to check for updates each time it starts. My current problem is that I need one of my F...

I want to create an automated installer for an Eclipse plugin (i.e. not through the "Update Manager"). My scenario is simple: the user closes Eclipse, drops a downloaded JAR into the dropins folder...

How do I build an SWT application using the Eclipse P2 repository and the Maven tycho-p2-plugin?

I’m trying to write a custom p2 provisioning action to execute my own code when installing feature. Doing so with installHandler for Update Manager was easy, but as for p2, there’s absolutely no do...

For the last few days I have been trying to test-build my eclipse plugin on a headless Debian VM. The reason for the headless Debian VM is that once I have the build setup, the build and the Update...

p2 repository creation ant tasks like eclipse.publish.featuresAndBundles seem to take a site.xml or category.xml file which specifies the category information. I see that the contents of site.xml ...

I trying to update an Eclipse-RCP-3.5 based application by an P2 update-site. The Application contains two features. Product is built by Eclipse Buckminster. Creation of the P2 update site is part...

I have an Eclipse feature which includes several bundles. I want to tell p2 to mark one of those bundles as started when the feature is installed. This is possible using the bundles own META-INF/p2...

I am looking for all addresses related to: 3.x eclipse itself (milestones and/or integration builds) 3.x other components (GEF, GMF, EMF, ...) In the spirit of answering my own question, I do h...

I have an RCP app, consisting of: A main plugin A "framework" plugin A product definition file The product definition file lives in the main plug-in (is this a bad idea?). The product definitio...

Simple usecase: assemble an Eclipse product using simple scripts, just dumping bundles into the plugins dir. This used to work with 3.3 - with 3.5 it's broken: my application doesn't start as the ...

I am preparing windows installer for my Eclipse plugin. I want install it into target eclipse product using P2 director. I am targetting only Eclipse 3.5 for now. Installer should check that prere...

Eclipse 3.4[.x] - also known as Ganymede - comes with this new mechanism of provisioning called p2. "Provisioning" is the process allowing to discover and update on demand some parts of an applica...