In Aptana Studio (eclipse rcp) is the bundle 'org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins' set to auto start?

Question

In Aptana Studio 3 (An Eclipse RCP) is the bundle org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins is set to auto start?

Aptana Studio 3, build: 3.3.1.201212171919

The plugin is listed in [eclipse]/plugins/org.eclipse....

org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins_1.1.100.v20110815-1419.jar

Aptana 3.3.x is not loading dropin plugins located in the dropins folder.

The P2 information states that "If you are attempting to use dropins, but your bundles are not being found, first ensure org.eclipse.equinox.ds and org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins are marked to auto-start. "

What logfile, or configuration file can confirm that the bundle listed above is running?

Note: This may be a regression, because it happened before to Aptana in 3.1.1

Answer 1

In the configuration of Eclipse (config.ini) you must manually start the dropins because it is not autostarted by the Aptana Studio RCP application definition. Note: In the standard Eclipse Distro it is started.

osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins@2:start

Once added, the configuration file Aptana->About->Installation Details->Configuration should now have this listed plugin as "Active" rather than "Resolved"

org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins (1.1.100.v20110815-1419) "Equinox Provisioning Drop-in" [Active]