Feature Working Sets

Generates eclipse working sets based on eclipse feature.xml projects

This plugin will add 2 buttons to the Project menu:

  1. Generate Working Set based on Features
    The button will remove all existing working sets that does not end with a dot (.) and then read the features you have in your target platform or as open feature projects and create working sets that match the content (plugins) of those features. This will only happen if at least 1 of the plugins are in your package explorer

  2. Show feature dependency viewer
    This displays dependencies between features (feature.xml), dependencies are read from the feature.xml. Clicking on a feature will highlight the content of the feature, you can open plugins and features

This feature requires: Graphical Editing Framework Zest Visualization Toolkit update site: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/releases/

Please leave a comment if you find it useful.

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  • #1 written by Paul
    about 4 months ago
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    Hello,
    just today I have found this amazing plugin!

    I am just blown away with it! This is exactly what we need and what we were asking for over a year now.

    Finally it is possible to use only and really only the feature as the one and only source of plugin dependency mechanism within eclipse!

    Cheers – thanks for your good works

  • #2 written by Paul
    about 4 months ago
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    Hello,
    just wanted to give feedback that the dependency arrows in the feature dependency view seem not to work with the Galileo SR2 release …
    Any suggestions?

    Cheers

  • #3 written by mikkel
    about 4 months ago
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    Thanks for the feedback, nice to know people are actually finding it useful. It works best with features and plugins in the workspace, have not tested how it reacts to the plugins in the target platform yet.

    We have setup the build process, building features that makes this tool even more interesting, as it can tell you the dependencies between the features.

  • #4 written by mikkel
    about 4 months ago
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    Hi Paul, thanks for the feedback, what is the problem with the arrows? are they not showing up at all?

  • #5 written by Paul
    about 4 months ago
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    Hello Mikkel,
    no the arrows indicating the feature dependencies are not showing up at all. I see the rectangles and the detail info is also correct. I looked for exceptions or so, but I did not find anything.

  • #6 written by db
    about 3 months ago
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    I use working sets every day but…what does this plugin do? I don’t understand the description. Do you think you could add some background and/or more details?

    Thanks

  • #7 written by ekaii
    about 3 months ago
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    I have 61 features in my workspace and only 11 Working sets are created by your plugin, a lot of them are missing ????
    Do you have any idea why ?

  • #8 written by ekaii
    about 3 months ago
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    In the dependency viewer I also do not have any dependency apearing.
    All my 61 features are placed next to each other and no link between them (see http://my.jetscreenshot.com/3027/20100518-ber8-70kb )

  • #9 written by mikkel
    about 2 months ago
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    I have updated the description hope it is provides more information now, the tool is great if you develop eclipse plugins and have your plugins organized in eclipse features, thats the short description.

  • #10 written by mikkel
    about 2 months ago
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    It shows dependencies based on the feature.xml dependencies, so if your 61 features does not have dependencies on each other then it will show a flat list.

  • #11 written by mikkel
    about 2 months ago
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    Good question, have you updated to 1.0.8 ?

    The command only organize a feature in a working set if one of the plugins defined in the feature.xml is available in the package explorer.
    otherwise could you clear your eclipse log view and run the command again and give me the stack trace if there is anything in the log view?
    (and sorry for the late response have been to busy at work)

  • #12 written by mikkel
    about 2 months ago
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    do the arrows appear if you move the features around (D&D)

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