Eclipse Plugin does not work in FlashBuilder/FlexBuilder Standalone

Question

Hi, created an Eclipse plugin that contributes to the UI by

• a new project wizard
• a new menu in the context menu of projects in the Package Explorer
• a new project nature + builder
• a new preference page for the plugin

The plugin works fine when installed in a normal Eclipse instance with Flex/Flashbuilder as plugin.

The problem now is, that the plugin never gets activated when i install it in a Flex/Flashbuilder Standalone instance. Neither of the features described above is available.

I even have no idea how to debug this, error-log (workspace/.metadata/.log) the following message appears, (but i dont think it is related to the problem)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui.workbench 2 0 2009-07-20 17:51:17.984
!MESSAGE A handler conflict occurred.  This may disable some commands.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui.workbench 2 0 2009-07-20 17:51:17.984
!MESSAGE Conflict for 'org.eclipse.ui.navigate.openResource':
HandlerActivation(commandId=org.eclipse.ui.navigate.openResource, handler=ActionDelegateHandlerProxy(null,org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.handlers.OpenResourceHandler),
expression=AndExpression(ActionSetExpression(org.eclipse.ui.NavigateActionSet,org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@1c45731),WorkbenchWindowExpression(org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@1c45731)),sourcePriority=16640)
HandlerActivation(commandId=org.eclipse.ui.navigate.openResource,
handler=ActionDelegateHandlerProxy(null,org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.handlers.OpenResourceHandler),
expression=AndExpression(ActionSetExpression(com.adobe.flexbuilder.standalone.navigate,org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@1c45731),WorkbenchWindowExpression(org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow@1c45731)),sourcePriority=16640)

In the "Configuration Details" my feature doesn't show up in the *** Features: section and my plugin doesn't show up in the *** Plugin-in Registry: section. But they appear under Configured features and Configured plug-ins.

Starting FlashBuilder with -clean didn't solve the problem. (the start command is now "C:\Programme\Adobe\Flash Builder Beta\Gumbo.exe" -clean)

My plugin depends on

org.eclipse.ui,
org.eclipse.core.runtime,
org.eclipse.core.resources,
com.adobe.flexbuilder.project
com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.ui
com.adobe.flexbuilder.ui

All of these should be available, as i see it. (and an error should be generated if they were not, i hope)

Answer 1

It could be a problem of the standalone flexbuilder version. We tried to install subversive in flexbuilder and it also didn't work correct.

Answer 2

I tried to install anoter plugin (Flash Snippets panel for Flash Builder 4, see http://theflashblog.com/?p=1494) and couldn't make it work with the FB standalone version. It appears some people succed with the plugin version.

As suggested, I tried launching standalone FB with admin right with no more success : my plugin that I put in the FB plugins folder is not seen at all. I think it's a shame the standalone version of FB makes it unusable to at least update local plugins (I mean a simple jar on my hard drive, not an http site like the one used for Galileo plugins) as it is for the FB plugin version...

Answer 3

I've solved "!MESSAGE Conflict" in log by editing file:

 Adobe Flash Builder 4\plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.standalone_4.0.1.277662\plugin.xml

In this file next tag is unnecessary:

<actionSet
    description="%standaloneDescriptionNavigationActions"
    id="com.adobe.flexbuilder.standalone.navigate"
    label="%standalone.navigate.flex.navigation"
    visible="true">
     <action
           definitionId="org.eclipse.ui.navigate.openResource"
           label="%OpenWorkspaceFileAction.label"
           helpContextId="org.eclipse.ui.open_workspace_file_action_context"
           class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.handlers.OpenResourceHandler"
           menubarPath="navigate/open.ext2"
           id="com.adobe.flexbuilder.standalone.navigate.OpenWorkspaceFile">
     </action>
  </actionSet>

This tag leads to duplicated "Open resource..." menu item. This duplication raises a conflict. Comment it (or remove) and start flash builder with clean option:

FlashBUilder.exe -clean