3 Replies Latest reply on Mar 13, 2010 3:11 PM by nickboldt

jbt manual installation in dropins folder

nimo22 Mar 12, 2010 3:59 AM

I have tried to install the jboss tools 3.1 in dropins-folder of eclipse (version 3.5.2). (the eclipse version is a fresh Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers)

My directory structure is:

eclipse/
   dropins/
     jbosstools-3.1/
       eclipse/
         features/
         plugins/
         artifacts.xml
         context.xml



I have unzip the artifacts.jar/content.jar comming from the jbosstools-directory.


Unfortunately, I get the following error:

!SESSION 2010-03-12 09:47:33.843 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.6.0_18
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=de_DE
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2010-03-12 09:47:35.359
!MESSAGE Provisioning exception
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.core.ProvisionException: No repository found at file:/C:/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-win32/eclipse/dropins/JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56/.
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.fail(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:380)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:641)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:92)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.loadRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:88)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.loadMetadataRepository(Activator.java:90)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.getMetadataRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:184)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.addRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:79)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.added(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:57)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.processFile(DirectoryWatcher.java:200)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.scanDirectories(DirectoryWatcher.java:161)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.poll(DirectoryWatcher.java:108)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.watchDropins(Activator.java:491)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.start(Activator.java:167)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:783)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:774)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:755)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:352)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:370)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1068)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:557)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:464)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:248)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:445)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:227)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:337)
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository 4 1000 2010-03-12 09:47:35.359
!MESSAGE No repository found at file:/C:/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-win32/eclipse/dropins/JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56/.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 4 0 2010-03-12 09:47:35.375
!MESSAGE Provisioning exception
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.core.ProvisionException: No repository found at file:/C:/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-win32/eclipse/dropins/JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56/.
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.fail(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:380)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.repository.helpers.AbstractRepositoryManager.loadRepository(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:641)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepositoryManager.loadRepository(ArtifactRepositoryManager.java:93)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepositoryManager.loadRepository(ArtifactRepositoryManager.java:89)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.loadArtifactRepository(Activator.java:128)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.getArtifactRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:200)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.addRepository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:80)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.added(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:57)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.processFile(DirectoryWatcher.java:200)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.scanDirectories(DirectoryWatcher.java:161)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.directorywatcher.DirectoryWatcher.poll(DirectoryWatcher.java:108)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.watchDropins(Activator.java:491)
     at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.Activator.start(Activator.java:167)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:783)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:774)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:755)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:352)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:370)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1068)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:557)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:464)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:248)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:445)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:227)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:337)
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository 4 1000 2010-03-12 09:47:35.375
!MESSAGE No repository found at file:/C:/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-win32/eclipse/dropins/JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56/.


What is wrong?

1. Re: jbt manual installation in dropins folder

maxandersen Mar 12, 2010 8:15 AM (in response to nimo22)

Looks like you downloaded the *updatesite* zip and not the zips of plugins.

See http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation or http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation/update_3_1.html#fromzip

But basically dropins are evil - use p2 update instead if you want your life to be simpler with less errors.
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2. Re: jbt manual installation in dropins folder

nimo22 Mar 12, 2010 11:29 AM (in response to maxandersen)

I have downloaded the zips from http://www.jboss.org/tools/download.html.

My downloaded files is called JBossTools-Update-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56-GA.zip,

I downloaded the zip from

http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/stable/3_1_GA.html
(Description: "All Plugins (repo) - A p2 repo (update site) bundle of all JBoss Tools plugins") - so I guess, you are right - I have the update sites zip.

I need to install via dropins, so where can I find the non-update-bundle? Could you provide the link of the zip which contains all plugins ?

I must be called something like JBossTools-ALL-3.1.0.v201003050540R-H56-GA.zip, but I cannot find it !
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3. SOLVED Re: jbt manual installation in dropins folder

nickboldt Mar 13, 2010 3:11 PM (in response to nimo22)

We no longer provide a "runnable" zip of all of JBoss Tools for install-by-unzip into dropins, because installation that way is error-prone (particularly on Windows) and doesn't bring in third-party dependencies like birt, maven, or svn, so things you've "installed" are not activated and you have no idea why (or how to diagnose why).

There are still some individual components' zips available [1], but they are being phased out too, and are not recommended for use. The p2 repo site or zip is the best approach.

[1] http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/stable/3_1_GA.html

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If you cannot use a p2 repo site or zip to do your installation (because you want to automate it via script or do so via commandline) you can do one of three things:

a) convert the p2 repo site zip into a runnable zip [2], then unpack that into dropins. Not recommended, but doable. (Basically the process involves unzipping all the features and some of the the plugins (those marked unpack="true" in their containing feature's feature.xml). repo2runnable also handles use of unpack200 to unpack packed jars, and therefore requires a 5.0 or 6.0 JDK)

b) mirror the p2 repo site (or zip) into a folder [3] on your disk, then use p2 to install from there (or see (a) above). Not recommended but certainly doable.

c) use a script to run the p2 director [4] to do the install for you headlessly. Recommended, if required.

[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks#Repo2Runnable, http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.dash/athena/org.eclipse.dash.commonbuilder/org.eclipse.dash.common.releng/tools/scripts/p2repoFormatToRunnableSDKFormat.xml?root=Technology_Project&view=markup

[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks/Partial_Mirroring/Example, http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks#Partial_Mirroring

[4] https://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation/update_3_1.html#fromscript
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