Eclipse plugin management in IBM RAD

Question

I installed RAD 7.5 and found out that IBM is not as good as I thought of it. RAD thing has it's own "install manager" which doesn't seem to resolve any dependencies. Does anyone know how to enable standart eclipse's software installer and/or Eclipse Marketplace?

Answer 1

You should be able to enable "classic install" in the preferences and then use the traditional installer to bring in 3rd party features. Even so, you'll still need to use IBM's installation manager to apply fixes, upgrades and new components from IBM/Rational.

Answer 2

This is how you add Marketplace client plugin to RAD 7.x/8.x:

1. Help / Install New Software
2. Point to Eclipse Helios Site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios in "Available Software Sites"
3. Select the correct release (for RAD 8.0 is Helios)
4. Type "Marketplace" in filter text control
5. Check "General Purpose Tools / Marketplace Client"
6. After install restart RAD

You now should see Eclipse Marketplace in Help menu.

Hint: this is the same procedure as in Eclipse Classic.

Answer 3

For RAD,Version 9.0.0:

Try to install using the

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler/

Select "General Purpose Tools / Marketplace Client"

Then "Next - Finish"

Answer 4

I use IBM's Rational Developer for Power Systems (which shares parentage with RAD, I think) and all the normal Eclipse plug-in & feature install options, as well as the Marketplace, are available.

You might have a corrupt install.

Might also be worth a call to IBM to see if they help identify why the options aren't available for you.