Building the update site

The IDE source also contains a project for the update site.

Eclipse Ganymede introduced a new update mechanism, however, so that simply building the update site project is not enough any more.

Here's what you have to do for publishing the update site:

1. make sure the links in the org.mule.ide and udpate-site projects point to the location you want to publish to
2. open the site.xml in the update-site project
3. hit the "Build all" button
4. from the commandline, run the generate-p2-metadata.sh script
5. upload the following files/folders
   • site.xml
   • artifacts.jar
   • content.jar
   • plugins
   • features

Publish a zip for older Eclipse versions

Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) introduced a new update site scheme which is incompatible with older Eclipse versions. Thus, older Eclipse versions cannot use the Ganymede update site. In order to support older Eclipse versions, create a zip file that can be manually installed:

1. open the context menu of the update-site project
2. Choose "Deployable features" from the "Plug-in development" section in the export dialog
3. In the next dialog select the org.mule.ide feature and specify a file name for the zip file
4. press Finish
5. upload the zip file you created to the forge distribution area