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Riena/E4
This page is a start page that describes the current situation of Riena running on E4. This bug is also references by [Bug 370445]
Riena - today
- You can read about the concept of Riena Navigation/Application model/concept on this wiki page Riena/Navigation
- Base UI Concepts are found under Riena/UIConcepts
Setup Targetplatforms
- Start an Eclipse IDE with an empty workspace
- Go to Target Platform in Preferences and setup two Target Platforms
- 3.8.M5
- update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.8milestones/S-3.8M5-201201251800
- switch off "Group by category" and sitch off "Include required Software"
- Select Equinox Target components
- Select Eclipse RCP and Eclipse RCP SDK
- click OK and wait for it to download and install (takes some minutes, I hadd 258 plugins in the target platform after that)
- 4.2.M5 as second target platform
- update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.8milestones
- select Equinox Target components
- click ok and wait for it to resolve and download
- update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.2milestones/S-4.2M5-201201271145
- Select Eclipse RCP / Eclipse RCP SDK and "Eclipse e4 Rich Client Platform" / "Eclipse e4 Rich Client Platform Developer Resources"
- Also select "EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework Core Runtime"
- You need to switch on the "include required Software"
- click OK and wait for it to resolve and download
Setup workspace
- Select 3.8 as your active target platform
- Clone the Riena Repo from Git using the URL git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/riena/org.eclipse.riena.git
- open the org.eclipse.riena.releng projectSet.psf file and checkout the projects that are listed there into your workspace
- all the remaining "compile errors" are because there is no API baseline set, you can change the warning for that to ignore (in the Preferences) and you should have a workspace with no compile errors for 3.8
Start the Riena example based on 3.8
- Target Platform 3.8 is still the activated one (from the setup)
- Start the launcher "SWT Example Application", make sure you switch to the plugins tab and click "Add required plug-ins"
- If all goes well that should bring up a working Riena example client
- You can click in the navigation (left and top) and see the Riena navigation as it is supposed to work
Start the Riena example based on 4.2
- Switch the Target Platform to 4.2
- You get compile errors.
- Open SubApplicationView
- comment out the line in error (we use an internal Workbench method :-) and the if statement around it
- Start SWT Example Application launcher as above (click on Add required plug-ins)
- remove the following plugins from the launcher before you start
- org.eclipse.riena.communication.console
- org.eclipse.equinox.console
The error you get is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.<init>(ModelServiceImpl.java:92) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application.createDefaultContext(E4Application.java:482) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application.createE4Workbench(E4Application.java:172) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:548) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:534) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.riena.navigation.ui.swt.application.SwtApplication.createView(SwtApplication.java:72)