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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:02:40+00:00

I’m writing a plugin to eclipse, in which I need to reload active target

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I’m writing a plugin to eclipse, in which I need to reload active target platform, at a given time. – just as the Preferences -> Plug-In Development -> Target Platform -> Reload.button, but of course dynamically from my plugin.

I would imagine something like this would be the way, but i can’t find the entrance/MagicProvider:

MagicProvider.getTargetPlatforms().getActive().reload();

Hope some of you know the trick 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Tried Max’s approach, but it didn’t seem to work. After searching the eclipse source I found out, that the ITargetDefinition is just a working copy, and must be saved. So the code will be:

    org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.ITargetPlatformService service = org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.PDECore.getDefault().acquireService(ITargetPlatformService.class.getName());
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.ITargetDefinition target = service.getWorkspaceTargetHandle().getTargetDefinition();
target.resolve(IProgressMonitor);
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.LoadTargetDefinitionJob.load(target);

    But credits to Max for the guideline. 🙂

    If anyone else needs some info, I recommend taking a look at

    org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.preferences.TargetPlatformPreferencePage near line 771 – 812 and method handleReload()
    and org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.targetdefinition.TargetEditor near line line 231

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