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Bug 78576 - Bad Dock Integration due to Malformed Application Bundle
Summary: Bad Dock Integration due to Malformed Application Bundle
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 53260
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.1   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2004-11-13 18:02 EST by Alain O'Dea CLA
Modified: 2004-11-14 10:47 EST (History)
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Description Alain O'Dea CLA 2004-11-13 18:02:36 EST 
Within the Eclipse application bundle Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS contains two
separate executables: 'eclipse' and 'java_swt'. For the Eclipse application
bundle to work correctly on the OS X Dock the executable 'eclipse' should be the
one that stays running.

Currently the Application Bundle when opened from the Dock launches the
'eclipse' executable which for some unknown reason launches 'java_swt' instead
of acting on its own. This causes an additional icon to appear on the Dock for
'java_swt'. Unfortunately performing the "Keep in Dock" option on this icon does
not work and leaves a useless link to a UNIX executable on the Dock.

To fix this the 'java_swt' executable should be become part of the 'eclipse'
executable. After this Eclipse's Application Bundle will work correctly with the
Dock.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-11-14 10:47:14 EST 
No, the Application Bundle is not malformed.

Yes, Eclipse 3.0.1 has two executables "eclipse" and "java_swt". "Eclipse" is the application wrapper that 
implements install/update for Eclipse, that is restarts the VM. "java_swt" was required in 3.0.1 since 
Apple's Java implementation runs the Java VM in a non UI thread which makes it impossible to have a 
Java based implementation of an event loop (like SWT). You can find the details in bug #40003.

In the 3.1 stream there is no longer a "java_swt" since the JVM now provides a new option to provide the 
same functionality. However, the functionality provided by the "eclipse" executable is still required, that 
is "eclipse" launches another process (the JVM) to run Eclipse. So in 3.1 there is only a single executable 
in the application bundle, but we still see the same problems.

So the real issue here is that MacOS X provides no support for representing two OS processes by a 
single entry in the Dock.

I'm marking this bug report as a duplicate of
bug #53260: Keeping Eclipse icon in dock does not work
Another related bug #70713: First Launch from Dock fails

Please add any infos you might have there.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53260 ***