Eclipse Ganymede - Plugin Update Sites
Today I had a very hard campaign against Eclipse trying to provide a new Version of the Imixs IX Modeler Plugin on my Update site in the internet.
As I am using new Eclipse Ganymede Version 3.4 I was unable to update my Plugin after I deployed it on my UpdateSite. I did everything as before using Eclipse Ganymede. I update my Plugins and Features and Build all the Features into my Update Site Project. Everything looks ok but after I uploaded the Plugin Site into my WebServer location, Eclipse Ganymede itself refused to install the new Plugin Version!. After a very long period of frustrating search for the error I found out what have changed:
Eclipse Ganymede Plugin IDE generates two new files inside the UpdateSite Project. These Files are "content.xml" and "atrifactes.xml".
I did not know what this files are good for. BUT !!NEVER!! copy these files into your Website location used by the UpdateManager. Eclipse 3.3 has no problem with these files. But Eclipse 3.4 makes a lot of problems when these files are provided by the update site. New features will possibly not be installed.
After I removed the files from the UpdateSite location the new IX Modeler Plugin installed perfect on my Ganymede.
Posted at 11:45PM Jul 19, 2008
Posted by: Ralph
Category: General