On 1/20/2011 6:48 AM, Harshana Eranga Martin wrote: > 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? yes it is a good idea.
Deepal > > > [0]. 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 <http://wso2.org> > > ECF Committer: http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/ > Blog: http://harshana05.blogspot.com > Profile: https://www.google.com/profiles/harshana05 >
