Thanks Mengxin. I was able to do that :)

Regards,
Dileepa

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:21 PM, zhu kane <[email protected]> wrote:

> P2 gets those two value from system properties, equinox native launcher
> is responsible for reading config.ini then pass them to jvm.
>
> You can directly launch eclipse via its java launcher with expected
> arguments.
>
> Mengxin Zhu
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Dileepa Jayakody <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> If above approach of substituting values in config.ini is not possible by
>> passing runtime arguments ,can I pass all arguments without reading
>> config.ini?
>> I tried this passing the following arguments at startup;
>>
>>
>> -Dorg.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file:{pathToInstallation}/configuration/ProfileA/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/
>> bundles.info
>> -Declipse.p2.data.area={pathToInstallation}/p2
>> -Declipse.p2.profile=ProfileA
>>
>> With above approach the org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl
>> argument is properly taken and the bundles are loaded as per the pointed
>> bundles.info. But the eclipse.p2.profile argument is not taken properly
>> and the application fails to load the installation details of the profile.
>>
>> Could this because org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core bundle only reads the
>> config.ini to load eclipse.p2.profile and eclipse.p2.data.area values?
>> Appreciate any help on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dileepa
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dileepa Jayakody <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to implement multiple-profile support in our eclipse based
>>> system by pre-provisioning several P2 Profiles and dynamically select the
>>> relevant bundles.info and P2-Profile at startup.
>>>
>>> I have modified the structure of our eclipse-based app as below to
>>> support multiple-profiles;
>>>
>>> *configuration*
>>> |--config.ini
>>> |--ProfileA
>>> |    |--org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info
>>> |--ProfileB
>>> |    |--org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info
>>>
>>> *p2*
>>> |--org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine
>>> |          |--profileRegistry
>>> |                |--ProfileA.profile
>>> |                |--ProfileB.profile
>>>
>>>
>>> If I manually edit the config.ini properties before startup like below I
>>> can load the bundles and profile relevant to ProfileA installation and
>>> everything works fine;
>>> eclipse.p2.profile=ProfileA
>>>
>>> org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file\ProfileA/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/
>>> bundles.info
>>>
>>>  But when I try to automate this by overriding config.ini properties by
>>> passing system.properties like below it doesn't work and application
>>> doesn't startup;
>>> eclipse.p2.profile=${profile}
>>>
>>> org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl=file\:${profile}/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/
>>> bundles.info
>>>
>>> It seems by passing -Dprofile=ProfileA , the config.ini's values are not
>>> substituted by ProfileA.
>>> Is it not possible to substitute config.ini properties by passing system
>>> properties like above?
>>>
>>> Any insight on this will be really helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dileepa
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dileepa Jayakody,
>> Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
>> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>>
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