I have a locally packaged plugin that isn't available from any update server (I built and exported it from source code, using Eclipse.) The plugin installs and works in the Eclipse environment.
Now I'd like to use it in my standalone Aptana Studio 3 installation. Is there a documented method of installing a .ZIP or .JAR file containing a working Eclipse plugin into Aptana Studio 3?
If this is well-documented elsewhere, a URL is all I need! :D
Edit: I realize there may be many reasons why the plugin doesn't work in Aptana; the issue here is that I can't find a simple way to install the plugin from within Aptana. I've tried "Add Repository -> Local" and "Add Repository -> Archive" but neither method recognizes the packaged plugin. I've also tried dropping the jar file into the Aptana 3 'plugins' dir and restarting -- no love. But there are no error messages or log entries to help understand why I can't install the plugin.
Might be a dependency issue. In some cases, a plugin may depend on another plugin that is missing from the product (e.g. Aptana Studio, in this case).
What I suggest is to install Aptana Studio as a plugin into a classic Eclipse 3.7 installation. Then, install your plugin just like you tried before.
Hope that helps.
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I am trying to learn telosys. The eclipse demo seems great.
However, I tried to install the plugin for VSCode, and it did not add any option/menu item anywhere in the VSCode editor.
The eclipse demo shows a great wizard based interface. Is there any way to get that interface without having to install eclipse.
Also, in case it is not possible, which package of eclipse do I need to install to optimally use telosys? I wanted to try out the python & angular bundles of telosys.
Yes indeed, the Telosys VS Code plugin provides only syntax coloration for Telosys files edition (".entity" files for example). Thus there's no particular changes in the VSCode menu.
VSCode is just one code editor (among others) that you can use with Telosys-CLI. The editors extensions are just provided to be more confortable when you're editing Telosys files. All the code generation is supposed to be launch from the command line in Telosys-CLI.
If you want a fully integrated tool, Eclipse + Telosys plugin is the best solution. Telosys Eclipse plugin is installable with all Eclipse versions, so you can choose one of these Eclipse packages :
https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
for example "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" and use "Eclipse Marketplace" to install :
Telosys plugin
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/telosys-code-generator-java-javascript-python-nodejs-php-c-javaee-spring-jax-rs-vuejs
Python plugin
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/pydev-python-ide-eclipse
First and foremost, I really appreciate your help. I am trying to build an application by using an external library Apachi Poi. I know I need to add jar files to the project; however, I don't know how I should do that plus I have been searching on the Internet for a solution, but I could not find one even I checked this. My OS is Linux and I am running 1.33.1 version of VSCode.
[UPDATE]: I have fixed my problem. What I basically did was to install maven command to my
Linux machine and now I am using mvn command along with pom.xml to add my .jar files to
the project.
We upgraded one of our Eclipse 3.x plugins to work with Java 9.
But when we generated the plugin update site content, and used Eclipse Update functionality to install the new version of the plugin, we encountered the following error in Eclipse Oxygen.
Removing part descriptor with the 'pluginxxx.bla.bla' id and the 'bla bla' description. Points to the invalid 'bundleclass://org.eclipse.ui.workbench/org.eclipse.ui.internal.e4.compatibility.CompatibilityView' class.
This error also appears due to some of the bundled plugins of Eclipse Oxygen itself.
After a hard week we had to
Uninstall our plugin
Remove the older versions of the plugin from the Eclipse/plugins folder
Export the plugin as a deployable plugin under the eclipse plugins directory. (Eclipse/plugins/blabla.jar)
Restart Eclipse and it worked.
Right click the eclipse plugin project and Run as "Eclipse Application" works fine, but installing the plugin from an "Update Site" causes the plugin to fail loading.
We could not find a solution yet, but it certainly effects our delivery of the plugin. The plugin is used by almost 500 CS students on their personal computers, and 200 lab computers. So the update should be installed using regular Eclipse Update functionality, not by copying the jar into the plugins directory.
Was there a better way to fix this, or something quicker we could've tried (in case this happens again)?
Update (7 days into the problem)
We have a workaround:
Export the feature project with the following settings in the Export Wizard
Destination/ Directory: Folder of your Plugin Update Site project
Options/ Package as individual JAR archieves (selected)
Options/ Generate p2 repository (selected)
Options/ Allow for binary cycles in target platform (selected)
Options/ Use class files compiled in the workspace (essentially selected)
Install (or update) the plugin from the local (or remote) plugin update site, and the CompatibilityView problem is solved.
In order to have the category listing displayed correctly during install/update new software operations, we added a category.xml file (File/New/Other/Plugin-in Development/Category Definition) in the update site project, defined the categories, and added the feature (versioned as "qualifier").
This is certainly not the way it should be, and we just hope it will be solved in the future Eclipse releases.
By the way current Eclipse Photon integration version has the same problem unfortunately.
I cannot find how to install Apache Directory Studio under Eclipse Neon. It looks like this project requires an update. Do you have more information about this?
Regards
Ignacio
Well,
I installed Neon alongside Luna, then, as usual I did a File -> Import -> From existing installation. That installation failed for almost all packages. Then I tried to find Apache under the Eclipse Installer window and could not see anything. Finally I decided to add a new site and use the URL http://directory.apache.org/studio/update and that worked fine.
I created a sample plugin which includes a simple view in eclipse and ran the plugin from inside the workbench, my plugin is installed and I get my view showing up in Window/Show View/Other... . I packaged the plugin as a jar file and installed it under the plugins directory of eclipse and restarted my eclipse workbench. I am not able to find my plugin view. I dont know whats is wrong
I am using eclipse RCP SR2 (3.6) for developing plugins and my packaged jar file includes the code, META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and plugin.xml files.
I created the plugin from the book 'Eclipse Plug-ins, 3rd Edition'. I followed the steps outright and am not able to set up the plugin as a jar file.
I got it to work somehow? The plug-in project was created using Execution Environment JavaSE-1.6. 'It was given in the book I referred'. Now the manifest editor had the entry 'Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6'. Now I ran the application with-in eclipse, it was working. But when I bundled the plugin as jar and copied the plug-in jar under plugins folder and restarted eclipse the plugin was not working, I dont know why, I thought my eclipse is not running under JRE1.6, but I checked my Windows->Preferences->Java->Installed JREs-> I have only jdk1.6.0_27 checked (So I assume that the eclipse is running under JavaSE1.6). This is bit confusing for me! I removed the Execution Environment entry in the Manifest editor Overview tab. Now there is no 'Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment' entry in my Manifest, I created the bundle jar again and installed in eclipse plugins folder and restarted eclipse using -clean option. It started working in my eclipse. I got it to work somehow but with no understanding! I am still looking for answers from some one who can help me figure out what went wrong?
Open an OSGI console and type 'ss'. It should list all of the plugins. Can you see it? What is the state of it.
You can use Preferences/plug-in development/target platform edit running 'running platform' content tab to list and check/uncheck plugins. I hope it helps.
You could try copying your jar file to the eclipse/dropins folder.