Comments on: Build your own Eclipse Marketplace!

by: Tom Seidel

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:00:49 +0000

@Cole
IMHO it doesn’t matter where the project is hosted. I prefer sourceforge.

@Pascal
Probably you’re right. But the difference in smaller applications is not so relevant IMHO. The marketplace provides several other interesting features, like the reference of a web-interface.

@Richard
Correct.

@Ralf
The metadata is stored in the database. The bundles and images itself will be just referenced by a URL.

@Hannes.
Follow the steps at https://sourceforge.net/p/marketplace-cat/home/

by: Hannes

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:24:52 +0000

I downloaded the war file, but what steps do I have to do to configure the server?

by: rich client 2.0 » Extending the Eclipse RCP Mailtemplate with Marketplace functionality

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:16:48 +0000

[…] Last week I wrote about using the Eclipse marketplace client for your own needs. Today I want to show you based on the RCP Mailtemplate how to integrate your own marketplace into your own RCP application. […]

by: Ralf Zahn

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:50:05 +0000

Nice. For my purposes, I’d like to have the possibility to add/edit/delete bundles using the file system instead of a database. Is there any additional information stored within the database, or could it then run independently from any database?

by: Richard Adams

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:30:41 +0000

Hello,
Nice article! This market place concept is new to me (we’re still using Galileo for our RCP development) but it looks really good! Are you saying that
- you include the eclipse marketplace client in your RCP app
- and your project provides the server-side to supply the content of the marketplace.
- this server-side project can be modified to include one’s own content?
We’re an academic group working on software for the life sciences and this seems a really nice way to deploy functionality to non-IT savvy end users.

Thanks
Richard

by: Pascal Rapicault

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:34:21 +0000

Even though this is a good idea, I think the discovery UI is probably best suited for what you are trying to do: have your users discover about particular extensions to your domain (much like mylyn does).
The market place is something much more global that spans the context of multiple plugins/applications. You can find slides from Steffen Pingel and Susan McCourt on the discovery ui on the eclipsecon 2010 website.

by: Cole Markham

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:50:44 +0000

Any reason why you chose sourceforge over Eclipse Labs[1]? What would be really nice is if there were a way to make it work directly with a project hosted there.

[1] http://eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipselabs/faq.php