EclipseCon 2010 presentation http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1079

1. Simplifying Update and Extension Install for RCP applications Susan McCourt (IBM Rational), Steffen Pingel (Tasktop Technologies)

3. What are we doing about it?

4. How do p2 and p2/Mylyn Discovery fit together?

5. Examples and Demos

7. Configurable policy to control aspects of UI

9. Plug-in developers, update site producers, end users

12. p2 API is too complex

13. Critical pieces (branding) are missing

15. When a product supports add-ons, our users expect the Firefox Install experience

19. 'Install New Software...' is still the default to support plug-in developer use cases

20. API: R3.5 Headless Update

21. API: R3.6 Headless Update

24. Aggregators design catalogs (rankings, search, tags, ...)

26. Update notifications

27. RCP Mail Update Example Snapshot of demo, give demo

28. RCP Example: Good ol' RCP Code Snapshot of demo, give demo Need a status line and progress indicator public void preWindowOpen() { IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer configurer = getWindowConfigurer(); configurer.setInitialSize(new Point(600, 400)); configurer.setShowCoolBar(true); configurer.setShowStatusLine(true); configurer.setShowProgressIndicator(true); } Define menus and locations for additions protected void fillMenuBar(IMenuManager menuBar) { ... MenuManager toolsMenu = new MenuManager("&Tools", M_TOOLS); toolsMenu.add(preferencesAction); toolsMenu.add(new Separator()); toolsMenu.add(new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.MB_ADDITIONS)); }

29. RCP Example: Menu Snapshot of demo, give demo Contribute the menu <extension point=&quot;org.eclipse.ui.menus&quot;> <menuContribution locationURI=&quot;menu:tools?after=additions&quot; > <command commandId= &quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.command.update&quot; mnemonic=&quot;%Update.command.mnemonic&quot; id=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.menu.update&quot;> </command> </menuContribution> </extension>

30. RCP Example: Update Command Snapshot of demo, give demo Contribute the command and handler <extension point=&quot;org.eclipse.ui.commands&quot;> <command name=&quot;%Update.command&quot; id=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.command.update&quot;> </command> </extension> <extension point=&quot;org.eclipse.ui.handlers&quot;> <handler commandId=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.command.update&quot; class=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.p2.UpdateHandler&quot;> </handler> </extension>

32. RCP Example: Update Code Snapshot of demo, give demo The update code // create the update operation. The defaults are fine. UpdateOperation operation = getProvisioningUI().getUpdateOperation( null , null ); // check for updates operation.resolveModal( null ); if (UpdateSingleIUWizard. validFor (operation)) { // Special case for only updating a single root UpdateSingleIUWizard wizard = new UpdateSingleIUWizard(getProvisioningUI(), operation); WizardDialog dialog = new WizardDialog(getShell(), wizard); dialog.create(); dialog.open(); } else { // Open the normal version of the update wizard getProvisioningUI().openUpdateWizard( false , operation, null); }

33. RCP Example: Branding Metadata Snapshot of demo, give demo Define a document suitable for displaying in a browser that describes your update. Refer to it in the metadata. <unit id=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.product&quot; version=&quot;2.0.0.z201003162033&quot;> <update id=&quot;org.eclipse.equinox.p2.examples.rcp.cloud.product&quot; description=&quot;This update contains Mylyn Discovery!&quot; range=&quot;0.0.0&quot; severity=&quot;0&quot; uri=&quot;file:/C:/_projects/eclipsecon2010/updatenotification.png&quot; />

37. User configurability

38. Extension Install

41. The default p2 installer is geared towards advanced users

42. Extension Install in 2008

44. Install embedded into regular workflow

45. Support for product information

46. Extension Install Today

48. Front-end for branded extension catalogs

52. Subversive connector installer

53. SpringSource Tool Suite extensions page

54. Integrating p2 Discovery

55. Remote Catalogs http://.../directory.xml http://eclipse.../catalog.jar http://tasktop.../catalog.jar

56. Catalog Tooling

57. Catalog Item Descriptor

59. Extensible data model

62. Integrate discovery with P2 license and install wizard

63. P2 Project http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_User_Interface http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Discovery Mylyn Discovery http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Discovery Marketplace Client http://eclipse.org/mpc Questions?