Question

I am developing several eclipse plug-ins which I bundle as a single eclipse feature. In the development environment I can run “as eclipse application” and see all the functionality of all plug-ins working great. When I package this as a feature, and install the feature to a clean eclipse installation, some of the plug-ins work but others do not. Specifically, I do not see any error message during installation or runtime, but for example, an editor and a wizard that one of the plug-ins provides are just not there.

Any advice on what could be different and go wrong between running “as eclipse application” and running the installed set of plug-ins? Also, if error messages are generated from the new eclipse installation, where could I see them?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your feature may depend on some plugins that are available in your development environment but not in the clean install.

It may help to start eclipse with the -console option and study the statuses of the plugins. Try to start you plugins manually (from the console), it will report unresolved dependencies.