IBM Rational Developer for i

Good morning,

We are running RDi in a Citrix environment, and are currently in the process of moving from 9.6 to 9.8.

At RDi 9.8, the default location of configuration files seems to have changed. Where 9.6 defaulted to <user-home-dir>/.eclipse/<product-id>_<product-version>/configuration, 9.8 defaults to <install_area>/configuration. 

I found that I could set osgi.configuration.area in RDi.ini - and that successfully created configuration folders in the location I specify (under @user.home) - but it also has the effect of installing plugins in that location which we don't want. We want plugins to install to a shared location so that we can install/update them for all developers. 

I've found the following topic in Eclipse help... https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fmulti_user_installs.html but I'm not still quite clear on how to configure things to meet our needs (i.e. how 9.6 worked - each user has their own area where configuration settings are stored, but plugins are loaded from the install area/plugins folder etc)

Can anyone point me to a good explainer on this or can advise how to configure RDi to meet our needs please?

Thank you

Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Here are the settings to review:
https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html&cp%3D2_1_6_0 

The setting that seems relevant is "osgi.configuration.cascaded".

Here is a thread from the citrix community:
https://community.citrix.com/forums/topic/243809-problems-of-publishing-eclipse-ide-on-citrix/#_=_

Here is a Windows blog for users of Windows:
https://jeremystein.com/brain/eclipse-with-multiple-users/

Hope this helps!

Good morning,

We are running RDi in a Citrix environment, and are currently in the process of moving from 9.6 to 9.8.

At RDi 9.8, the default location of configuration files seems to have changed. Where 9.6 defaulted to <user-home-dir>/.eclipse/<product-id>_<product-version>/configuration, 9.8 defaults to <install_area>/configuration. 

I found that I could set osgi.configuration.area in RDi.ini - and that successfully created configuration folders in the location I specify (under @user.home) - but it also has the effect of installing plugins in that location which we don't want. We want plugins to install to a shared location so that we can install/update them for all developers. 

I've found the following topic in Eclipse help... https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fmulti_user_installs.html but I'm not still quite clear on how to configure things to meet our needs (i.e. how 9.6 worked - each user has their own area where configuration settings are stored, but plugins are loaded from the install area/plugins folder etc)

Can anyone point me to a good explainer on this or can advise how to configure RDi to meet our needs please?

Thank you

Stuart