[Steve Olson]

I have a local plugin (no update site) from a source control vendor (MKS) that pulse can’t enable in MyEclipse 8.6. It recognizes the plugin when I browse to it in the Software tab in the Configuration Center, but when I then add it to my profile, a message box pops with this error text:

Missing requirement: MyEclipse 8.6 (Profile) 2.0.0.0000000003 (com.poweredbypulse.profile-978123-rmb-972900 2.0.0.0000000003) requires ‘com.mks.integrations.eclipse.bundle.feature.group 0.0.0’ but it could not be found

The plugin does have com.mks.integrations.eclipse.bundle stuff, but I can find nothing like the “.feature.group” suffix that pulse is looking for. Is pulse claiming there is something wrong with this plugin from MKS, and if there is, what do I tell MKS support (assuming they’ll help)? MKS believes this plugin works with standalone eclipse installs, although I have not verified this myself yet. Of course they don’t test with MyEclipse or pulse, and don’t support it formally. So any help you can give me on what pulse is checking/validating and/or requiring before it will install standalone plugins, I’d appreciate it.

In MyEclipse 8.5 and earlier I’ve had luck manually dropping a link file into the dropins folder that points to this plugin, but I can’t seem to get that work-around to succeed in this case.

Thanks in advance for any help…

[Steve Olson]

I did get the plugin to work using the dropins work-around – I had an error in the link file that once fixed allowed the plugin to install. It did pop a message box when 8.6 started up. Evidently the vendor has a dependency on Apache Commons Logging that isn’t satisfied, but whatever that is doesn’t prevent the plugin from functioning.

So I still have the original question in my first post, but wanted to post this additional info in case it helps explain why pulse displayed what it did when I tried to install the exact same plugin the Configuration Center way.

I couldn’t see a way to attach an image to this post, so here’s the text from the message box (sorry if I’ve typo’d anything):

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Pulse has automatically detected dropins added or removed from your configuration. The following is a report of the software detected by pulse.

Some discovered software could not be provisioned:
-com.mks.integrations.eclipse.bundle 4.10.0: dependent on drop-in which is not installable
… (skipped some stuff until root cause at the end)
-com.mks.integrations.eclipse.mksapi 4.10.0: missing bundle org.apache.commons.logging 0.0.0

Software successfully added to your configuration:
– (9 bundles were listed under here)

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