[stokiematt]

I’m trying to get my own plugin to show up in MyEclipse 7.1. I extract the zip to the dropins directory, but its not being recognized. If I do the same in Ganymede the plugin is recognized.

I’m finding in the .log file the following error. I don’t get this in Ganymede.

org.eclipse.osgi.service.pluginconversion.PluginConversionException: Could not find a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, plugin.xml or a fragment.xml

Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

Cheers,
Matt.

[Brian Fernandes]

Matt,

I assume you are using exactly the same source to install into both Ganymede and MyEclipse? Does that error go away if you delete remove your plugin? I ask because I want to make sure that the error is associated with your plugin and not something else.

What requirements does your plugin have – a specific Java or Eclipse version? Some of the dependencies that your plugin has may not be part of MyEclipse. You could find out more by starting MyEclipse with the -debug -console -consolelog switches. Try to start your bundle using “start bundlename” in the console. That should give you more details about the failure.

Hope this helps.

[stokiematt]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for getting back to me. Your help was just what I needed. It turns MyEclipse was starting up with a Java5, but the plugin was specifying Java6. I’ve updated the ini file, so MyEclipse uses Java6.

Thanks for your help in identifying the problem.

Cheers,
Matt.

[Brian Fernandes]

Glad I could help! Thanks for getting back to us.

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