Re: [equinox-dev] Eclipse installer

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The way to think of this is that the
config.ini file is setting a mess of System properties.  You can put
whatever you want in there.   Check out 
        http://help.eclipse.org/help30/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html
for more information on the system properties
we care about.

Note that really startup.jar does two
things, create a class loader to load the framework and setup some System
properties.  If you want your own main (or to run Eclipse from your
program) you don't have to do the classloader work (as long as the framework
is on the app classpath) and setting the system properties is pretty easy.

Jeff

Enrique Rodriguez <erodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx>
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02/15/2005 08:56 AM

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Hi,

I am looking for help, examples, or a tutorial on shipping an 
installable application with the Eclipse OSGi runtime.  For example,
say 
I have a suite of bundles (a store, a service that uses that store, and
a UI that uses the service) that I would like to package up with the 
Eclipse OSGi runtime and make as friendly as possible to install.

With the Oscar container, for example, I can write a main class in which
I set a bunch of properties (in code or a properties file) that state 
the bundles and startlevels and then instantiate a new Oscar.

{code}
System.setProperty( "oscar.profile.name", profile );
System.setProperty( "oscar.cache.profile", profile );
System.setProperty( "oscar.system.properties", systemProps );
System.setProperty( "oscar.bundle.properties", bundleProps );
System.setProperty( "oscar.strict.osgi","false" );
System.setProperty( "oscar.embedded.execution", "true"
);

Oscar main = new Oscar();
{code}

How can I do this with Eclipse?

-enrique

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