We have an application on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) that runs well in the Runtime Workbench, but we are having difficulty getting it to start outside of Eclipse. We exported our program as a deployable plug-in and unpacked it in a clean directory, but it will not start. Are there examples of how we can make this work?
An RCP newsgroup (hosted by Eclipse.org) offers a lot of information about overcoming the pitfalls of deploying RCP programs.
There are several items that need to be copied into your deployment directory by hand after you export your plug-in, including the eclipse.exe program launcher and the startup.jar file from your development installation.
You also need to copy all the plug-ins that your program depends on from the eclipse/plug-ins directory to your deployment directory.
Another good source of RCP deployment information is the mailing list at www.eclipsepowered.org, where it was recently announced that an initial version of an RCP application deployment wizard was released into the Eclipse Concurrent Versioning System repository.
