It would be interesting to note here how long it takes to start your application with the extra overhead that Eclipse obviously contains. For example, dose it start up sub-second? Or does it take 5 seconds to do this?

Note that the answer wouldn't be important in terms of an 'Eclipse is slow' argument, just be interesting to see what the standard overhead is in getting this up and running.

Good point, as that was one of my big questions in doing this exercise. Turns out that on my laptop the hello world does take just about exactly 5 seconds, so the overhead isn't what you'd expect.

Starting such a simple example should not take anywhere near 5 seconds. Are you deploying the plug-in to the same directory as the rest of the IDE plug-ins?

Try deploying it to just the RCP build. Or, use the product editor (File > New > Other... > Plug-in Development > Product Configuration (you'll need to use it to create a product extension, or create the file from a pre-existing product extension).
Ensure that only the RCP plug-ins are included in the Configuration tab, then click on the "Export Product export wizard" from the Exporting tab.

Good to know I could eliminate the overhead if were doing just an RCP build. It makes sense that most of that 5 seconds was loading all those other plug-ins...

"java -jar startup.jar -application org.foo.helloWorld.HelloWorld"

also works on Eclipse 3.1

I had wondered if the launcher.Main was in the manifeest -- good to know that using -jar works. Was it not this way in Eclipse 3.0?

After properly executing your step I could not get the the screen output when I ran
java -jar startup.jar -application org.foo.helloWorld.HelloWorld

Specifically, when I ran it internally off the overview page to test the plugin(Launch an Eclipse Plugin) I was able to see the output. But with a no output with after running the command in at a command prompt.

Any ideas? Thanks.

If I had to guess it would be that you built the plug-in eclipse but didn't deploy the plug-in -- that's the second to last step where I export the plug-in into the eclipse home directory. Only after that is the plug-in installed and runnable from the command-line.

were can I find good examples of use of plugins given:
* I want to run a headless application
* I want the headless application to use 1..n plugins I have

So I need to know how my headless application initializes and calls the plugins that I have. Where are some good examples of this? Thanks.

@joe: I thought I had the same problem, turns out I made a typo in the "application" parameter value and Eclipse silently fails on that...

Hi

How i run the Eclipse Rcp programe.I am using Eclipse 3.2.Plz i hope as soon as possible reple me.

With regards

Murugan

Excellent article. I did something similar in Eclipse 3.2, however everytime I use System.out.println() command, they get written out to a NEW console window. Any idea on how to write them out to the same console used to launch the headless app?

Hi, thanks for this clear HowTo. It saved me a lot of research.
After following the steps in the howto I decided that I would like to be able to reference classes in other plugins from the headless plugin. Is this possible?
In a 'normal' plugin you can just at the dependencies to other plugins, and they are added to the plugin.xml. Howver, when I add dependecies to other plugins from the headless plugin I get a class not found exception on classes defined other plugins when running from the command line. I think this has something to do with the ogsi bundle manifest and/or the manifest in the deployed plugin. Does anybody have more information for me?
Kind regards,
Peter

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