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Bug 218650

Summary:	[publisher] Provide a mechanism to publish an existing JRE
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk, curtis.windatt.public, darin.eclipse, Ed.Merks, pascal, simon_kaegi
Version:	3.4	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/117968 https://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git/commit/?id=e92e31abc7ed83117b9cd25b4026531b4ae47064
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Bug Blocks:	218623

Description Andrew Niefer

2008-02-12 11:48:03 EST

The current metadata generator creates an "a.jre" IU when run against an eclipse install containing an eclipse/jre.

The .product file contains a mechanism to bundle a jre with the product.  This is currently supported by PDE/UI but not by PDE/Build.

When generating a Product IU from the .product file, should we be adding the referenced JREs to the metadata/artifact repos?

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2008-02-12 11:52:30 EST

Note that the .product file entry looks something like:

<vm>   <windows>org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/IBM_1.5.0-20070201</windows>
</vm>

This by itself is not sufficient information to bundle the jre, we would require
an actual path on disk.

Comment 2 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-02-12 11:57:58 EST

True, but if you have access to JavRuntime, something like JavaRuntime.getVMInstall(...) should give you access to the path.

Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault

2008-02-12 13:39:27 EST

Until progress are made on the p2 front for handling JREs, I would not go crazy on this and simply generate the "a.jre" IU.

Comment 4 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-09-09 10:54:02 EDT

If the .product file contains a EE (not just a named JRE), this should work nicely. Thinking about it... I'm not sure why we even offer people to select a named JRE in various places in PDE. We should be forcing (I mean suggesting better habits) people to choose an EE.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2018-02-22 12:07:39 EST

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/117968

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2018-02-27 04:42:33 EST

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/117968 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git/commit/?id=e92e31abc7ed83117b9cd25b4026531b4ae47064

Comment 7 Ed Merks

2020-02-21 01:48:08 EST

I don't believe there is anything actionable remaining here.

With the possibility to redistribute JREs, there is other work being done in this area.