Hi All, I finally could create the mail demo RCP app using p2 to update itself! My environment is Windows Vista, Java 6, Eclipse 3.4 RC4.
Here are the steps that describe how I p2-enabled the mail demo: 1. Created the mail demo (project p2-maildemo) 2. Created a product configuration p2-maildemo.product 3. Added 3 plug-ins to both launcher and product configuration (and added required plug-ins) - org.eclipse.equinox.p2.exemplarysetup - org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk - org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.manipulator To get the final update work in the installed product, it is also necessary to include the following 3 plug-ins with dependencies in the product configuration: - org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer - org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse - org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.natives 4. Exported the product and the metadata/artifact repositories to c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo 5. Used the director app to install the mail demo from the repository, with the following Program arguments: -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app.application -metadataRepository file:c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/repository -artifactRepository file:c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/repository -installIU p2_maildemo.product -version 1.0.0 -destination c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/install -profile MaildemoProfile -bundlepool c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/install -profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true -p2.os win32 -p2.ws win32 -p2.arch x86 -roaming -consoleLog VM arguments: -Declipse.p2.data.area=c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/install/p2 6. Started the installed mail demo in c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/install 7. Selected Help/Software Updates...: Showed the P2 UI with installed Product in version 1.0.0 So far so good! Now I wanted to create a new version 1.0.1 of the product and update the installed version 1.0.0: 8. Updated main mail demo plug-in to version 1.0.1 9. Updated product version to 1.0.1 10. Exported the new product version 1.0.1 in the SAME location, to update the metadata/artifact repositories. The first thing I noticed was that my installed 1.0.0 did not find any update. I thought, when the installation repository contains a new version, this would be seen by my application without any extra configuration. 11. So I added the repository c:/java/RCP/p2-maildemo/repository manually as a new site, and voila, the new version 1.0.1 was displayed and ready for update. 12. When I wanted to install the update, the P2 dialog told me correctly: "RCP Product is already installed, so an update will be performed instead." 13. And now, when I clicked finish, the update was actually happening, the new version was installed properly!!! I am so happy that I finally got this to run :) What would be the best practice to create a list of artifacts/metadata repositories in the configuration/.settings/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.prefs and org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifacts.repository.prefs to include the real update sites for the product? Many thanks to everybody who helped me. Kai --- Kai Tödter Siemens AG Corporate Technology Architecture CT SE 2 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81739 Munich, Germany Phone: +49 89 636-41064 Fax: +49 89 636-45450 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.siemens.com/corporate-technology Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Gerhard Cromme; Managing Board: Peter Loescher, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; Heinrich Hiesinger, Joe Kaeser, Rudi Lamprecht, Eduardo Montes, Juergen Radomski, Erich R. Reinhardt, Hermann Requardt, Uriel J. Sharef, Peter Y. Solmssen, Klaus Wucherer; Registered offices: Berlin and Munich; Commercial registries: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, Munich, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-No. DE 23691322 _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
