How to find out which feature contains a needed plug-in on an Eclipse download site
If you fire up the p2 console, you can use the p2 query language to find all features that depend on a bundle. My example is in Eclipse Juno (4.2):
- switch to the OSGi console in the console view
- ss p2.console # to find the console bundle number
- felix:start -t consoleBundleNumber
Now you can issue p2 queries. To find which features in your current install contain org.eclipse.jface, you can use:
osgi> provlpquery this "select(parent | parent.properties['org.eclipse.equinox.p2.type.group'] == true && parent.requirements.exists(rc | everything.exists(iu | iu.id == 'org.eclipse.jface' && iu ~= rc)))" true
org.eclipse.e4.rcp.feature.group 1.1.0.v20120521-2329-8yFTIGF3GGduEYqkQB9M3DKn
org.eclipse.e4.tools.css.spy.feature.feature.group 0.12.0.v20111206-1509-17B-7w3123161302752
To find out which feature includes org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed you can use:
osgi> provlquery http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno "select(parent | parent.properties['org.eclipse.equinox.p2.type.group'] == true && parent.requirements.exists(rc | everything.exists(iu | iu.id == 'org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed' && iu ~= rc)))" true
org.eclipse.amp.amf.feature.group 0.9.0.v20120528-0244
org.eclipse.bpel.feature.feature.group 1.0.1.v20120606-0845-CI
org.eclipse.jwt.feature.feature.group 1.2.0.v201205310546-7O7i-FK_Qj4QkVn3kW9q
org.eclipse.platform.feature.group 4.2.0.v20120528-1648-9JF7BHV8FyMteji0MoOeOuU6sAnxIeYtKNM1dK
org.eclipse.ptp.etfw.tau.feature.group 6.0.0.201206052145
org.eclipse.tcf.te.feature.feature.group 1.0.0.201206051725
org.eclipse.tcf.te.tcf.feature.feature.group 1.0.0.201206051725
In this case, org.eclipse.platform.feature.group is the most correct one.
The first example is querying profiles in the running eclipse, so it uses provlpquery this. The second example is specifying an external p2 repository, so it uses provlquery repo.
See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Console_Users_Guide for more information on the p2 console. There's a lot of black magic going on :-)
There is also a GUI utility that can answer this question, p2browser:
- Add a relevant P2 repository
- Filter by IU, capability or (Java) package
- Right-click on relevant IU and choose "Open including features"
The utility is also useful for searching for plugins/bundles that provide specific Java package.
Although developing quite a few RCP applications, I've not came across a convenient solution for this problem. A good source of plug-ins is the Eclipse IDE itself. To find out the dependencies I find the Dependency Analysis feature in the Plug-in Manifest Editor quite helpful. Moreover one can validate a product configuration via the Validate... button in the to right corner of the Product Configuration Editor. If plug-ins are missing they are listed as a result.
One possiblity I've not tried so far is to define a target platform by specifying one or more software sites instead of relying on locally downloaded features and plug-ins.
Surely this is not the answer you were looking for but imho there's no real solution for this problem. There are just tools and vehicles (partly described above) which help to ease the pain when constructing the target platform of a RCP application.
Basic idea: Get definitions of all the features and then search through it.
More detailed description: http://divby0.blogspot.com/2010/10/howto-find-feature-that-contains-plugin.html
Doesn't look like an effective solution, but still it's something.
ok after lots of google and above answers , i did following
- create new general project in eclipse
- add features folder in to this project ( as link folder)
- search in this project all feature.xml with my plugin name
I hope this helps for others too