Installation and configuration of Eclipse plug-ins

Some minor problems during installation are worth noting:
1. Note that the eclipse and lomboz versions are important during download.
Generally, only those with the same version number are compatible.
That is, 2.0 of the Eclipse plug-ins will be installed with 2.0 of lomboz; eclipse3.01 will be installed with the plug-in lomboz.301, which is not prone to errors. It is best to carefully read the instructions on the website during download, otherwise, sometimes the installation may be confusing and time-consuming.

2. Installing lomboz requires the support of the GEF and EMF plug-ins. Therefore, downloading and installing eclipse3.01,and lomboz.301.zip is not enough. You 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 is easily overlooked, and sometimes a problem occurs during installation:
After the installation is completed, start eclipse. The lomboz item cannot be found in the left-side menu of window> preference.
In [help] --> [about eclipse platform] ---> [plug-in details], check that the lomboz plug-in has been installed. This problem has plagued me for a long time. Some Chinese installation tutorials on the Internet have not been clearly stated. In fact, we need to install the lomboz, GEF, and EMF plug-ins.

3. Sometimes the Eclipse plug-in is not loaded, and there are many solutions. To sum up:

A. Delete the entire directory/Eclipse/configuration/org. Eclipse. Update/and restart eclipse.

B. Add the-clean parameter when starting eclipse.
For example, D: \ eclipse \ eclipse.exe-clean

C. If the plug-in cannot be found at eclipse startup, solution: add a line to the/configuration/config. ini file.
Osgi. checkconfiguration = true
In this way, it will find and install the plug-in. After finding the plug-in, you can comment out the line, so that the plug-in will not appear slow after each start.

4. To facilitate management of many plug-ins, it is recommended to install various Eclipse plug-ins in links mode.

 

Eclipse basics-install the Eclipse plug-in using links
Eclispe should be familiar to everyone. Generally, Eclipse plug-ins are installed in the Plugins directory. However, after many plug-ins are installed, eclipse becomes very large. The most important thing is that it is not easy to update and manage many plug-ins. Installing the Eclipse plug-in using links can solve this problem.
XP SP1, eclipse3.0.1

Now, assume that my eclipse installation directory is D: \ eclipse and the plug-in directory to be installed is D: \ plug-in. I will install the languagepackfeature (Language Pack) EMF-SDO-XSD-SDK, GEF-SDK, and lomboz.

First put the four plug-insProgramPut all in the D: \ plug-in directory and decompress them separately. For example, if lomboz3.0.1.zip is decompressed to the lomboz3.0.1 Directory, which contains a directory of plugins, you must first create a subdirectory eclipse in the directory of lomboz3.0.1, and then move the directory of plugins to the newly created eclipse directory, that is, the directory structure is D: \ plug-in \ lomboz3.0.1 \ eclipse \ plugins.

Eclipse will go to the specified directory to find the eclipse \ features directory and eclipse \ plugins directory to see if there are legal functional components and (or) plug-ins. That is to say, the target directory must contain a \ eclipse directory. If the attached feature and plug-in are found, the configuration is available during the runtime. If the linked file is added after the workspace is created, the additional feature and plug-in will be processed as new configuration changes.

If the directory of eclipse \ plugins is already included After decompressing other compressed files, you do not need to create an eclipse directory.

Create a subdirectory links in the eclipse Installation Directory D: \ eclipse and a link file in the links directory, for example, languagepackfeature. link: Change the file content to Path = D:/plug-in/languagepackfeature. That is, the link file must correspond to a directory of the plug-in just extracted.

Note:

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

2. Multiple plug-ins can be installed in a custom directory.

3. The file name and extension name of The Link file can be any name, such as ddd.txt and myplugin.

4. In the link file, Path = the path of the plug-in directory must be \ or/

5. There can also be 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 relative paths.

7. You can create a subdirectory in the links directory to transfer unused plug-ins to this subdirectory to accelerate eclipse startup.

8. If you cannot see the plug-in after installation, delete the configuration directory under the eclipse directory and restart.

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