| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox Launchers in 3.3 M5. |
Thomas: On behalf of the equinox guys, let me give you my "end-user" experience.
* Is it still possible to run pure java when running headless? We
really want to avoid using shared libraries.
See bugs https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170831 and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=171756#c13 for some progress made along these lines. The short answer for running headless w/ <java jar="..." .../> instead of <exec executable="${eclipse-home}/eclipse" .../> is that it's possible, as discussed here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/PDE_JUnit_Testing
* Is the new java launcher transparent to options? I.e. does it
forward everything that it doesn't recognize? Does it propagate
options that it does recognize and act on or are they swallowed?
I saw at least one example where an old commandline flag, "-noupdate", is no longer supported and causes problems when running with the new launcher jar. Links regarding what's supported and what's not are in the wiki and bug 170831. Hope that helps! -- Nick Boldt :: Release Engineer, IBM Toronto Lab Eclipse Modeling :: http://www.eclipse.org/modeling http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User:Nickb