Two RCP Applications in one installation

Question

I recenty developed an Eclipse RCP application based on an existing RCP application. It´s basically used as a url protocol handler which reuses authentication and some services. I´m trying to avoid a second installation and look for a way to integrate the new RCP application into the installation of the existing RCP - is there a way to achieve this?

I´m (still) using Eclipse 3.8 and build with tycho.

Answer 1

Assuming that you have multiple applications within your product, you can launch the desired one using the

-application id

runtime argument.

Answer 2

In our application, which integrates multiple Eclipse RCP applications, we have a custom target platform, which bundles all other application plugins, so everything is shipped together. Also, all artifacts, provided by other applications can be retrieved from the maven repository, so that necessary services may be added as a dependencies to, for instance, server side projects. Hope that helps.