Eclipse Assembly

org.eclipse.automation version 1.0.1 (June 2007)

About

Automates headless build of Eclipse Products

This project was created in honor of the bug 84065. See 84065

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See also Eclipse Product Build

Supported Configuration

J2SE 1.4.x or greater
Eclipse 3.3
org.eclipse.automation 1.0.1 was tested against Eclipse 3.3 M7

Installation

Install Eclipse
Install the automation plugin: Extract the downloaded zip file and copy the org.eclipse.automation_1.0.1.jar file to <ECLIPSE_DIR>/plugins folder

Tools

There are two tools provided:

Import Projects into Workspace
Export Products

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Tools: Import Projects into Workspace

Use this tool when you don't have an Eclipse Workspace created. This is a very common situation when you fetch projects from CVS or SVN and you don't have Eclipse Workspace setup.

It's a pre-requisite to have all the projects in the workspace before exporting the Eclipse Product.

Usage

java -jar <EQUINOX_LAUNCHER_JAR> 
     -product org.eclipse.automation.importProject
     -data <WORKSPACE_DIR>
     [<PROJECT_PATH>]

Example

java -jar D:\eclipse33M7\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070502.jar
     -product org.eclipse.automation.importProject
     -data "d:\myworkspace"

Tools: Export Products

This tool is used to perform the Product export

Usage

java -jar <EQUINOX_LAUNCHER_JAR>
     -product org.eclipse.automation.importProject 
     -data <WORKSPACE_DIR>
     <product bundle name>
     <product file>
     <destination folder>
     <include sources>

EQUINOX_LAUNCHER_JAR
The path to the Equinox Launcher jar file found at <ECLIPSE_DIR>/plugins folder.

WORKSPACE_DIR
The path to the Eclipse Workspace Directory

PROJECT_PATH
(Optional) (Path Relative to Workspace folder) If the path is not supplied, all projects under the workspace folder are loaded

Product Bundle Name
The plugin/bundle that contains the .product file

Product File
The product file

Destination Folder
The folder where the exported product will be saved

Include Sources
Whether to add the sources when the product is exported

Example

java -jar D:\eclipse33M7\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070502.jar
     -product org.eclipse.automation.productExport
     -data "d:\myworkspace"
     org.eclipse.automation.sample
     /sampleproduct.product
     d:\export
     false

Running the Sample

There is a sample product/plugin in the sources folder of the download file. Open a Terminal/Console and run:

cd <EXTRACTION_DIR>/sources

Run:

java -jar D:\eclipse33M7\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070502.jar 
     -product org.eclipse.automation.importProject 
     -data .

Run:

java -jar D:\eclipse33M7\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070502.jar
     -product org.eclipse.automation.productExport 
     -data . 
     org.eclipse.automation.sample 
     /sampleproduct.product 
     ./export 
     false

The Product has been exported. You can run the application:

cd export

Run:

eclipse.exe

The following image is a screenshot for the product that was exported using the Automator.

This software is open source. Feel free to modify, submit improvements, or whatsover.

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