This is a 2 goals post
- “Tip” about Individual Source Bundles
- Everybody should use Eclipse Newsgroups
Let’s get started with the technical issue …
After reading the online help page about Individual Source Bundle I started to modify my headless build in order to generate individual source bundles for my examples plugins. Following the help page, I quickly had individual source bundles successfully exported, fine !!!
The problem comes here …. after installing my plugins in a clean SDK Eclipse installation I was not able to import my examples plugins as source projects. Here is the “error in opening zip file” :
Several investigations and many “Googling” didn’t solve the problem. I still had this @*####.. error !!!
Now comes this magic thing calls Community.
I decided (in fact it was on of my last solution before stepping inside PDE’s code) to ask the question on PDE newsgroup. 24 hours after my question was asked, I received THE answer from Andrew Niefer. Many thanks !!!
Individual source bundles must be packaged as Jar files and not as directories, it is implicitly said in the help:
“For each bundle there is a corresponding source bundle which is a jar containing the source for that bundle”
I just Unchecked the Unpack plug-in archive after installation in my feature.xml for all my individual source bundle and now it works !!!!!
My conclusion here are:
I’ll try to use more and more newsgroups and I’ll try as often as possible to answer questions asked on newsgroups.
Always package my source bundles as Jar files
