I installed both Zend CE and zend debugger of Eclipse on my Mac. Both of them work well in Mac lion. However they don't work any more after I upgraded my Mac to mountain lion. After some investigation I found some extensions of Zend PHP can't be loaded due to shared library dependency can't be found in mountain lion. …

I successfully converted our product build from PDE build to Maven/Tycho. Something is worth to be documented here. There are several examples and posts to demonstrate how using Tycho building your Eclipse plug-ins, features, applications and products. The most helpful example is the demo of Tycho project. Below are …

The documentation of PDE has a chapter for this topic. Basically it's simply. Copy the template scripts what you want from templates/headless-build folder under org.eclipse.pde.build plug-in to your build configuration directory that is the folder has build.properties file. However I found the variables listed in …

I implemented the replication tool at the end of 2009, then published it to Eclipse Marketplace in May 2010. However it's not pervasively used due to users have to install that plug-in firstly. I searched a similar request on bugzilla, then I initialized my contribution in the early of this year. Finally it was …

Recently our installer met a strange bug, it didn't uninstall all legacy bundles after updating to new version. Finally I found it's due to a magic fragment is missing in the profile due to some causes. installBundle(bundle:${artifact}) uninstallBundle(bundle:${artifact}) setStartLevel(startLevel:4); It has …

You would see some interesting properties at the bottom of eclipse's profile. For example, It attaches a property named 'org.eclipse.equinox.p2.internal.inclusion.rules' with value 'STRICT' on the IU 'org.eclipse.sdk.ide' with version 3.6.1.M20100909-0800. It's a very important property for the p2 engine. It means the …

I wrote a plug-in to simplify the process to install the same plug-ins in different platform or different workstation. Anyone is interested in it, pls follow below guide to freely use it. http://code.google.com/p/kane-toolkit/wiki/P2Replication Enjoy it.

How Equinox load bundles Equinox launcher is responsible to start OSGi framework. The system bundle would be created and marked as installed when initializing the framework. Equinox also tries to install the installed bundles if finding them in persistence data during the initializing period. Of course there is no …

Learn p2 step by step See this link for detail Learn P2 step by step p2 concept p2 install p2 install practice p2 repository publish customized p2 touchpoint p2 repository publish practice Example Code Reference p2 concept 首先来理解p2引入的几个概念[1] p2 / Agent The provisioning infrastructure on client machines Installable Unit …

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