Hi All, Currently there are 2 Eclipse plugins as Axis2 Codegen plugin and Axis2 Service archive plugin under Axis2 tools and at the moment these plugins are distributed as zip archives. Eclipse users need to extract these zip archives and copy the jar files to the plugins folder of their Eclipse installation.
Disadvantage in this approach is, inability to install the plugins if all the dependencies are not already contains in the users' Eclipse installation. For example this[0] is caused due to missing javax.activation and javax.xml.stream bundles/packages. As Andreas has explained in this [1] issue to solve this problem, we have to create Eclipse Features for these plugins so that the p2 based Eclipse update manager can automatically calculate and download the missing dependencies. So how about we create Eclipse Features and a p2 repository for Axis2 Eclipse plugins and distribute the Eclipse plugins via p2 repository. Devs, WDYT? [0]. http://markmail.org/message/bzkt6ylqcvqxznnn <http://markmail.org/message/bzkt6ylqcvqxznnn>[1]. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4916 Thanks and Regards, Harshana Martin -- Harshana Eranga Martin Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. Web: http://wso2.com http://wso2.org ECF Committer: http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/ Blog: http://harshana05.blogspot.com Profile: https://www.google.com/profiles/harshana05
