[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: problems enabling an installed feature

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Start the exported application with the following options (put them in 
your <exe>.ini file)

-vmargs
-Xdebug
-Xnoagent
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000 
-Djava.compiler=NONE

Start you rcp app, nothing will happen, this is normal

Then in your IDE, put your breakpoints in your code, and start a remote 
debug session. This will attach to the VM that you started and will 
start the process.

The other trick you can use to debug an exported app is to start with 
-console and -noExit. This will give you an osgi console that will allow 
to introspect the state of the running system.

HTH,

   PaScaL

Ps: don't forget to reexport the code if you change it

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote an rcp app which checks an update-site for new features and 
> > installs them. This is done using the org.eclipse.update.standalone 
> > classes InstallCommand and EnableCommand. My problem is, that 
> > EnableCommand is not working, i.e. I can't enable the feature. The 
> > cause is the TargetSite (currently the eclipse folder) says that the 
> > feature is already configured only that this can't be true, because 
> > using eclipse's Configuration Manager I can see that the feature is 
> > disabled.
> >
> > So why can't I enable the feature? Oh, btw. I do all this before 
> > launching the workbench, as the first thing inside 
> > RcpApplication.run(), but I hope that this doesn't matter...
>
>
> I got a bit further reading another thread here... I can now install and 
> enable the feature (there was a plugin missing from the feature that the 
>  editor-plugin needed) as long as I do it with an export of my rcp-app.
>
> I still cannot install and enable the feature when running the rcp-app 
> from within eclipse :-( Which would not be that much of a problem, if 
> using the installed feature would work, but it doesn't and I don't think 
> that debugging the exported product is as easy as debugging it inside 
> eclipse...
>
> So any hint wether how to make this feature install work from within 
> eclipse or tips on how to debug an exported product is welcome.
>
> Andreas