Re: [ptp-user] Delayed startup of PTP resource managers

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg
I'm working on a plugin which has its own perspective and where I'm using 
PTP to launch the target application using the profile configuration 
dialog to pick a resource manager and application to run. If I don't have 
the resource manager running, then I can't complete the profile 
configuration dialog. I have to cancel out of that dialog then switch to 
the PTP runtime perspective to make sure the resource managers are running 
then go back to my perspective.

I can see where if I was using the C/C++ perspective to develop an 
application, I would have the same startup problem since I would probably 
be in that perspective most of the time and not remember to switch to PTP 
runtime before shutting down.

Maybe it's just something that needs to be noted for real users to make 
sure they do and not a major inconvenience since they probably wouldn't be 
restarting Eclipse multiple times during the day. I'm just hitting this 
path a lot with my plugin development and was thinking this might be 
something that could be easily fixed to improve ease of use.

I found out that if I add the resource manager view to my perspective, 
that the resource managers start automatically when I start Eclipse with 
my perspective as the initial perspective. There's some cases where the 
resource manager view would be useful in my perspective anyway, so maybe 
that's the answer.
Dave



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Re: [ptp-user] Delayed startup of PTP resource managers






Dave,

This is a side effect of the lazy bundle activation policy. In theory 
it would be possible to work out a way to load PTP only if there were 
resource managers that needed to be started, but Eclipse generally 
frowns on plugins that don't operate this way. Any particular reason 
why you need this?

Greg

On May 14, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Dave Wootton wrote:

> I noticed that if I have a PTP resource manager running when I 
> shutdown
> Eclipse, that it does not automatically start until I switch to the 
> PTP
> runtime view. I can see the delayed startup if I have some perspective
> other than the PTP runtime perspective, such as the C/C++ 
> perspective open
> when I shutdown Eclipse. When I restart Eclipse, the resource 
> managers do
> not attempt to start until I switch to the PTP runtime perspective.
>
> Is this an effect of Eclipse only loading the PTP plugins when the PTP
> runtime perspective is opened? Is the intention that the user should
> switch to the PTP runtime perspective to start the resource managers
> before using any other perspective that relies on PTP resource 
> managers?
> Dave
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