Adding Workshop to an Existing Eclipse Installation

You can install Workshop 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 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 3.2.2
  
• WTP 1.5.4
  

Launching Workshop When Installed as a Plugin

If Workshop 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 installation. If you choose to launch Workshop 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 in these directories:

• BEA Workshop for WebLogic: WORKSHOP_HOME/workshop4WP/workshop4WP.ini
• BEA Workshop for JSP : WORKSHOP_HOME/workshopJSP/workshopJSP.ini
• BEA Workshop Studio : WORKSHOP_HOME/workshopStudio/workshopStudio.ini

Here is a sample file:

-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/eclipse_pkgs/1.0/eclipse3.2.2/eclipse
-Dosgi.instance.area.default=C:/bea/user_projects/workspaces/workshop
-Dosgi.configuration.area=C:/bea/workshop_10.1/workshop4WP/eclipse/configuration
-Declipse.product=com.bea.workshop.product.wl.workshop
-Dosgi.splashPath=file:C:/bea/workshop_10.1/workshop4WP/eclipse/plugins/com.bea.workshop.product.wl_1.0.0