Installation and configuration of Eclipse Plug-ins

There are some minor problems to note during installation:

1. Note that Eclipse and Lomboz version numbers are important when downloading
Generally the same version number is more compatible.
That is: 2.0 of the Eclipse corresponding plug-in installed 2.0 lomboz;eclipse3.01 on the corresponding plug-in lomboz.301, so it is not easy to make mistakes, download the best carefully read the instructions on the Web site, or sometimes the installation always appear inexplicable problems, waste time.

2, install Lomboz need GEF and EMF plug-in support, so light download installation Eclipse3.01, and Lomboz.301.zip is not enough, must download the following four plug-ins:
Eclipse3.01
Lomboz.301.zip
Gef-runtime-3.0.1.zip
Emf-sdo-runtime-2.0.0.zip

This can easily be overlooked, and the result is sometimes a problem when installed:
After the steps have been installed, start eclipse, the result "window"---> "preference" on the left menu with Ben could not find Lomboz.
And in "Help"--> "about Eclipse Platform"---> "Plug-in Details" inside view, but also clearly shows Lomboz Plug-ins have been installed. This problem has been killing me for half a day, some of the Chinese installation tutorials on the internet did not clearly say clearly, in fact, to install a good LOMBOZ,GEF and EMF these two plug-ins also need to install.

3, sometimes launch eclipse does not load plug-ins, a lot of solutions, summed up:

A, delete the entire directory/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.update/, restart eclipse

b, take the-clean parameter when you start eclipse
such as: D:\eclipse\eclipse.exe-clean

C, if eclipse startup cannot find the plugin, workaround: Add a line to the/configuration/config.ini file
Osgi.checkconfiguration=true
So it will look for and install Plug-ins, find the line can be commented out, so that each time you start will not be looking for plug-ins and appear slow.

4, in order to facilitate the management of many plug-ins, it is recommended to use links to install a variety of Eclipse plug-ins

Eclipse Basics-Installing the Eclipse plug-in using the links method
Eclispe Presumably everyone is familiar with, in general, the Eclipse Plug-ins are installed in the plugins directory. However, when many plug-ins are installed, Eclipse becomes very large, and the main thing is that it is not easy to update and manage many plug-ins. You can resolve this problem by installing the Eclipse plug-in in links.
Current configuration XP sp1,eclipse3.0.1

Now let's assume that my Eclipse installation directory is D:\eclipse, and the plugin directory to install is D:\plug-in, and I'm going to install Languagepackfeature (language Pack), EMF-SDO-XSD-SDK, GEF-SDK, Lomboz these four plug-ins.

First of all the four plug-ins are placed in the D:\plug-in directory, respectively decompression. such as Lomboz3.0.1.zip uncompressed into the Lomboz3.0.1 directory, this directory contains a plugins directory, first in the Lomboz3.0.1 directory to create a new subdirectory eclipse, and then move the plugins directory to the newly built eclipse Directory structure that is the case: D:\plug-in\Lomboz3.0.1\eclipse\plugins

Eclipse will go to the specified directory to find the Eclipse\features directory and the Eclipse\plugins directory to see if there are any legitimate features and/or plug-ins. In other words, the target directory must contain a \eclipse directory. If found, additional features and Plug-ins will be available during runtime configuration, and if the linked files are added after the workspace is created, additional features and plug-ins will be processed as new configuration changes.

If you have already included the Eclipse\plugins directory after extracting other compressed files, you do not need to create an Eclipse directory.

Then create a subdirectory links in the Eclipse installation directory D:\eclipse directory, create a link file in the links directory, such as Languagepackfeature.link, and change the file contents to path=d:/plug-in/ Languagepackfeature that this link file should correspond to a newly unpacked directory of Plug-ins.

Description

1. Plug-ins can be installed separately in multiple custom directories.

2. A custom directory can install multiple plug-ins.

3. The filename and extension of the link file can take any name, such as Ddd.txt,myplugin.

4. The path path for the Path= plug-in directory in the link file is delimited by \ or/

5. You can also have multiple link files in the links directory, and the path parameter in each link file will take effect.

6. The plug-in directory can use a relative path.

7. You can create a subdirectory in the links directory, transfer temporarily unused plug-ins to this subdirectory, and speed Eclipse startup.

8. If the plugin is not visible after installation, remove the configuration directory under the Eclipse directory and reboot.