Re: [platform-update-dev] Re: [eclipse-dev] Questions on Installing Plu

[Philip Borlin <pborlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are doing a standalone app based on the Eclipse platform and like 
you, thought about the best way to update our app.  Since our app isn't 
going to allow third party plugins and is going to be installed into a 
controlled environment we decided to just check for updates everytime we 
launch the application.  I just put this code into the startup() method 
of our main plugin.  The solve the bootstrap plugin, we are going to 
initially hand out a CD that is completely tailored to how we want it.  
We will pre-install our feature before packaging it up and then on first 
startup it will automatically get the newest version.  We set our 
feature up to be the default feature in the install.ini so we get to do 
our initialization before the rest of the platform starts up.

If anyone has any suggestions while this is out there, feel free to add 
input.

-Phil

       try {
           String featureID = "foo.feature";
           String siteString = "http://foo.com/appdir";;
           ISite site = SiteManager.getSite(new URL(siteString), new 
NullProgressMonitor());
           ISiteFeatureReference[] featureReferences = 
site.getFeatureReferences();

           IFeature remoteFeature = null;
           for (int x = 0; x < featureReferences.length; x++) {
               VersionedIdentifier id = 
featureReferences[x].getVersionedIdentifier();
               if (id.toString().startsWith(featureID + "_")) {
                   remoteFeature = featureReferences[x].getFeature(new 
NullProgressMonitor());
                   break;
               }
           }

           if (remoteFeature == null) {
               throw Utilities.newCoreException(
                   "The foo.feature feature could not be found on this 
update site.",
                   null);
           }

           PluginVersionIdentifier remoteVersion = 
remoteFeature.getVersionedIdentifier().getVersion();

           InstallCommand command = new InstallCommand(featureID, 
remoteVersion.toString(), siteString, null, null);
           command.run();
       } catch (Exception e) {
           log("", e);
       }

-Phil

> Hi All,
>
> My company has decided to use eclipse for our Linux based tools. Our
> product teams are developing the plugins and features and I am supposed to
> write a install program that installs the products and plugins so that when
> the end user invokes eclipse, he/she is able to use our products through
> eclipse GUI.
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> My question is related with how to install plugins/features during the
> install process? How many different ways exist to do that?
>
> I have done some homework on this, read few IBM articles and also looked
> into various books. I was able to find two ways of doing that:
> (Method# 1) Use update manager.
> (Method# 2) Create appropriate links in the folder
> /path/to/eclipse-install-location/eclipse/plugins to the location of
> product specific plugins (
> /opt/companyname/productname/bi/com.company.pluginname.version)
>
> Couple of questions:
> (1) Since we will be creating both plugins and features( i.e. our plugins
> wont be unmanaged plugins), is approach mentioned in method# 2 going to
> work? Are there any disadvantages of using method# 2?
> (2) Can someone tell me what are other ways of installing managed
> plugins(/features) ?
> (3) Can I invoke update manager using bash script to install our plugins
> and features? Our installation script is written in bash. How do I go about
> doing that if this can be done?
>
> Pls help.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Sam
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