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Virgo/Tooling

Features

The Virgo Tooling/IDE concept concerns the whole Virgo tooling (that was available inside SpringSource Tool Suite) being put in a separate project. The tooling supports the following:

  • Bundle projects
  • PDE Bundle projects
  • Par projects
  • Plan Projects
  • Web Bundles
  • Deployment to a Virgo Server in the server view.

Since version 1.5 Virgo Tools support deploying PDE projects to Virgo. It's possible to develop for Virgo using the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment, provided that PDE Bundle projects are created using the dedicated Virgo Tools wizard. Please refer to the official documentation for further details.

Installation

Install Eclipse

If you're not installing into an existing Eclipse, you'll need one.

The Virgo Tools highly recommend using a recent Eclipse SimRel version. The current version of the Virgo Tools, 1.5.2, requires Eclipse SimRel 2019-06 minimum and has been tested up to Eclipse SimRel 2020-03.

If you are forced to use an older versions of Eclipse, you may try Virgo Tools 1.5.1 which are known to work with:

  • Eclipse Luna 4.4
  • Eclipse Mars 4.5
  • Eclipse Neon 4.6
  • Eclipse Oxygen 4.7

Note that for Eclipse Photon you will have to follow a manual procedure explained in bug 537017.

Install Virgo Tools

  1. Select Help>Install New Software..
  2. Enter one of the Virgo update sites below.
  3. Select "Virgo Tools" feature and click install.

Note: Select only Virgo Tooling. This is a composite site, and the other features are not designed to work within the Eclipse IDE.