[pde-dev] product definition problems

[Aleksandr Kravets <kravets.dev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Hopefully this is the right mailing list to ask my question, if not, please advise of a better one.

I am trying to create product definition and not sure if I am creating it correctly. Product definition lives in a feature that has dependencies on the plugins that make up the product. In the dependencies section of product definition I include only the feature that it lives in. If I try to launch product like that it fails with this error:

!SESSION Thu Nov 18 10:20:52 EST 2010 ------------------------------------------

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2010-11-18 10:20:52.041

!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:

!STACK

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:546)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1212)

So I started adding different features as dependencies, o.e.equinox.executable, o.e.platform and even o.e.jdt and o.e.gef. If add these, plus o.e.dtp and o.e.emf that my plugins depend on then product launches fine. But I think that this is wrong - why do I need to add any of these if I have target platform that defines all of these dependencies. I tried to read some articles about product definition but could not find anything other than simple rcp examples. Can someone please help me understand what am I doing wrong here?

thanks for your help,

Alex