[news.eclipse.commercial] Re: Use Eclipse Update Manager to distribute n

[Genady <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a wrong group.
As to the question you have some options:
1. Package the extra data as a "true" plugin.
2. After a plug-in recognizes that a new version has been installed it 
goes to the web and downloads the data.
3. Maybe custom install handlers can help:
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/extension-points/org_eclipse_update_core_installHandlers.html

Genady Beryozkin
http://www.genady.net/



Eclipse Newbie wrote:
> We have an RCP Application that we are attempting to distribute using 
> the Update Manager (Eclipse 3.2.1).  Since we don't have any 
> experience with it, to test the concept, I've created a sample RCP App 
> / Feature and created an update site to update it.  That works fine 
> and I am able to run the software update from the site, as well as see 
> and install the new features.
>
> The problem comes here:
> In addition to java-based RCP code, a separate part of our application 
> is written in Power Builder.  We were hoping to be able to update it 
> along side our RCP App, using Update Manager.  I haven't been able to 
> find any substantial information on the subject in either Eclipse Help 
> files nor on the web.  I have also tried to hack it by packaging the 
> code into a .jar and placing it into features/ folder on the update 
> site and modifying site.xml file to relfect the new "feature" like so:
>
>   <feature url="features/pbClient_1.0.0.jar" id="pbClient" 
> version="1.0.0">
>      <category name="PB App"/>
>   </feature>
>   <category-def name="PB App" label="PB App"/>
>
> That didn't work and the new "feature" was not visible under new 
> updates.  I suspect that if I can somehow package this code from 
> within Eclipse, it might work, but I am really at a loss as to how.
>
> So the question is:
> Is it possible to update a non-java code/packages via Update Manager?
> If so, does anyone have any experience with it and could someone point 
> me in the right direction?  I seem to have exausted my known options.
>
> Thanks in advance for any responses/direction,
>
> ~ Elena