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Bug 368990

Summary:	Default value for the applicationXMI parameter
Product:	[Eclipse Project] e4	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	kai.toedter, Lars.Vogel, nepomuk.seiler, nobody, pwebster, tom.schindl
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Lars Vogel

2012-01-18 12:00:21 EST

I'm currently updating my Eclipse 4 RCP Tutorial: http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseE4/article.html

After describing the initial setup I realized that it is relatively complex to set it up.

I think it would be an reasonable enhancement if E4Application could use a default value for the applicationXMI parameter.

Looks to me that in 251 in E4Application we could add something like:

if (xmiURI==null){//Use default; xmiURI=[pluginname]/Application.e4xmi;} 

I think a Convension for this file would help new starters

Comment 1 Thomas Schindl

2012-01-18 12:10:49 EST

Convention over configuration is a good thing i think. I'll try to look into it

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2012-01-18 12:14:00 EST

@Tom: Great! Thanks a lot.

Comment 3 Kai Toedter

2012-01-18 13:15:46 EST

+1

Comment 4 Nepomuk Seiler

2012-01-18 14:06:07 EST

+1

Comment 5 Lars Vogel

2012-05-10 13:56:45 EDT

Solved by a patch in another bug.

Comment 6 Nobody - feel free to take it

2012-05-10 17:15:36 EDT

For reference it was solved in bug 306623.