On further investigation, this really doesn't work.  Some of the menu
options show up, but nothing is executable.  And the help index is
there, but no help topics.

Also, I can't get the plugin to work with Eclipse 3.4 even with a
"normal" install.  I'll have to look into this.

Jeff Butler


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Jeff Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This looks like my directory structure, except that I deleted the
> files LICENSE.txt, NOTICE.txt, and site.xml in the ../eclipse
> directory.
>
> Also, the .link file has just the directory name:
>
> path=C:/<myExternalDirectory>/ibator
>
>
> Jeff Butler
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Leucht, Axel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thanks Jeff for having a look at my problem.
>>
>> I unjarred the three feature files (org.apache.ibatis.abator_1.1.0.jar) into 
>> a newly created directory org.apache.ibatis.abator_1.1.0 in my external 
>> feature directory. Unfortunately this doesn't work for me as the error in 
>> the log file is now:  "No repository found at 
>> <myExternalDirectory>/ibator/eclipse/.eclipseextension".
>>
>> Is it wrong what I did or can you describe it more precisely what you did to 
>> make it work? I'm verifying ibator to be present just by looking into 
>> Eclipse help where it should be visible, shouldn't it?
>>
>> My external directory now looks like this:
>>
>> ibator
>>        eclipse
>>                features
>>                        org.apache.ibatis.abator_1.1.0
>>                                feature.xml
>>                                LICENSE
>>                                NOTICE
>>                LICENSE.txt
>>                NOTICE.txt
>>                plugins
>>                        org.apache.ibatis.abator.core_1.1.0.jar
>>                        org.apache.ibatis.abator.doc_1.1.0.jar
>>                        org.apache.ibatis.abator.ui_1.1.0.jar
>>                site.xml
>>
>> Again, thanks for you're help.
>>
>> /Axel
>>
>>
>>>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>Von: Jeff Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008 04:38
>>>>An: [email protected]
>>>>Betreff: Re: ibator Eclipse plugin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I got it to work, but it was strange.  I had to unJar the files in the
>>>>feature into a directory like this:
>>>>
>>>>..\eclipse\features\org.apache.ibatis.abator_1.1.0
>>>>
>>>>The three plugins can remain jarred in ..\eclipse\plugins
>>>>
>>>>I followed the error messages shown in the error log to
>>>>figure this out.
>>>>
>>>>When I rebuild the plugin for 3.4, it will have the new structure.
>>>>
>>>>Jeff Butler
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Leucht, Axel
>>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to install the ibator Eclipse plugin.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I don't like the idea to "pollute" the Eclipse folder
>>>>with all ny required plugins. Instead all my plugins are
>>>>stored external ina seperate folder and I do have a links
>>>>folder within Eclipse with files "linking" the required
>>>>plugin. This works fine and let me switch to new plugins
>>>>quite easily without having to delete all files needed by a plugin.
>>>>>
>>>>> This doesn't work with ibator, though. I downloaded the
>>>>plugin from the ibatis website, copied all the files into a
>>>>separate ibator-folder and wrote a link-file to also load the
>>>>plugin for my Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede).
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know why it is not working or how can it be
>>>>accomplisged what I'm trying to do?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>

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