[news.eclipse.platform] Re: what happened to startup.jar?

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes this is new, M5 is the first milestone build with this, although it went in 
the integration builds immediately after M4.

As you discovered, plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070126.jar is 
the replacement for startup.jar.  You'll notice it is now versioned and is 
updateable.

There are a few wiki pages on the topic:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Equinox_Launcher
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Equinox_Launcher_Plan (details of actual 
implementation)

-Andrew

Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's only a shot in the dark but maybe this is because of new 
> SWT-Splash-Screen support added in M5, so the starting process has 
> changed because eclipse is launched JNI calls.
>
> http://relengofthenerds.blogspot.com/2007/02/eclipse-33m5-now-available.html 
>
>
> At least it talks about a new launcher.
>
> Tom
>
> aeberbac@xxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to do some automation, but I'm running into a problem with 
> > the 3.3 integration build.
> > java -cp plugins\org.eclipse.platform_3.2.100.v20070126\startup.jar 
> > org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
> >
> > doesn't do anything. It doesn't say anything. The only information I'm 
> > getting is an exit status of 13.
> > Everything in the documentation refers to startup.jar. Now I looked at 
> > the launcher sources and there's a bit in eclipse.c that says:
> >
> >         jarFile = findStartupJar();
> >
> > in which there's a section that looks to do a:
> >
> >         file = findFile(pluginsPath, DEFAULT_EQUINOX_STARTUP);
> >
> > Where  DEFAULT_EQUINOX_STARTUP is defined as
> > #define DEFAULT_EQUINOX_STARTUP 
> > _T_ECLIPSE("org.eclipse.equinox.launcher")
> >
> > So when I look at the running configuration when launching from the 
> > executable I see:
> >
> > -startup
> > C:\mumble\eclipse3.3\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070126.jar 
> >
> >
> > Now if I run the antRunner with this guy it works as expected (ie it 
> > works). Has this just not been updated in the docs? Is this the 
> > replacement for startup.jar?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew