Adding Workshop for WebLogic to an Existing Eclipse Installation

You can install Workshop for WebLogic in two ways: You can (1) add it to an existing Eclipse installation or (2) use the Eclipse installation bundled with the installer.

To add Workshop for WebLogic to an existing Eclipse installation, follow these instructions:

In the installer dialog, on the Chose Installer Type screen, select Custom.

On the Install Eclipse Location Options, select Use Existing Eclipse and browse to an existing Eclipse home directory.

Requirements for the Existing Eclipse Installation

The existing Eclipse installation must meet the the following requirements:

• Eclipse 3.2.1
  
• WTP 1.5.2 with patches. To update WTP 1.5.2 with the appropriate patches follow the instructions below.
  
• The Eclipse installation must not already include Workshop Studio.

Updating WTP 1.5.2 with Patches

1. Select Help > Software Updates > Manage Configurations.
2. In the Product Configuration dialog select the node Eclipse SDK > [your target Eclipse home directory] > J2EE Standard Tools (JST) Project and click Scan for Updates.
3. In the Update Site Mirrors dialog, select a download site and click OK.
4. In the Updates dialog unselect J2EE Web Tools Platform (WTP) and select Web Tools Platform (WTP) Patches and click Next.
   
   
5. Select the license agreement and click Next.
6. Click Finish.

Launching Workshop for WebLogic When Installed as a Plugin

If Workshop for WebLogic is added to an existing Eclipse installation, you may choose to launch using the existing eclipse launcher (ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse.exe) instead of the custom launcher (WORKSHOP_HOME/workshop4WP/workshop4WP.exe) provided with the Workshop for WebLogic installation. If you choose to launch Workshop for WebLogic using the existing eclipse launcher, you may need to modify the eclipse.ini file (ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse.ini).

The required and optional additions to eclipse.ini are shown below:

Required

 -vm (a Java 5 VM is required)
 -vmargs
 -Xms384m (or greater)
 -Xmx768m (or greater)
 -XX:MaxPermSize=256m (or greater)

Optional

 -Dweblogic.home
 -Dosgi.instance.area.default
 -Dosgi.configuration.area
 -Declipse.product
 -Dosgi.splashPath

Not applicable

 -Dosgi.install.area

Sample eclipse.ini and workshop4WP.ini files

Sample eclipse.ini

The eclipse.ini file is located at ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse.ini.

-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m

Sample workshop4WP.ini

The workshop4WP.ini file is located at WORKSHOP_HOME/workshop4WP/workshop4WP.ini.

-vm
C:/bea/jdk150_06/jre/bin/javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xms384m
-Xmx768m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Dweblogic.home=C:/bea/wlserver_10.0
-Dosgi.install.area=C:/bea/tools/eclipse32/eclipse
-Dosgi.instance.area.default=C:/bea/user_projects/w4WP_workspaces/Untitled
-Dosgi.configuration.area=C:/bea/workshop_10.0/workshop4WP/eclipse/configuration
-Declipse.product=com.bea.workshop.product.wl.workshop
-Dosgi.splashPath=file:C:/bea/workshop10.0/workshop4WP/eclipse/plugins/com.bea.workshop.product.wl_1.0.0