[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: RCP Eclipse 3.3

[Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>]

JimL wrote:
> I updated to Eclipse 3.3.  I had a RCP app that worked under 3.2, but 
> when I upgraded to 3.3 I wasn't able to launch. It seems that something 
> in the bundle descriptor needs to be updated....any suggestions?

As Alex Blewitt wrote, you should always try to provide some further
information in such a situation. It's practically impossible to
deduce from this information onto the real cause.

What do you mean with "launch"? Do you mean that you tried to start
your previous 3.2.x RCP app from your run-configuration that is
available via Run>Run (in Eclipse 3.2.x) with the 3.3 run-configuration?

Here are several possible reasons: The first is, that you should select
the "Plug-ins" tab of the config and that you should try out the
"Validate Plug-in Set". I expect that you get several issues here.
Than use the "Add required Plug-ins" btn. Does validation succeed now?

If not, you might stumble accross an issue I also came about, that is
the missing resolution of the newer jface.binding plug-in. For some
reasons, I also don't understand in detail, the action behind the
"Add required Plug-ins" did always select my *old* jface.binding
plugin in the list, but it helped to unselect this guy and to *manually*
select the new jface.binding plugin. This issue only occurred, if I
had older plugins in my additional extension location. There were no
need for this manual resolution, if I choose a fresh extension location
which did not contain older plug-ins :-(

Hope that helps,

Daniel Krügler