I need to create a modified distribution (package?) of Eclipse 4.2 for Java EE Developers. It's going to be distributed to the team with all required plugins (should be ready for development out-of-the-box). I'm trying to use Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers to achieve this, but the documentation is mostly outdated and doesn't help much.
I fetched the original projects for Eclipse packages from http://git.eclipse.org/c/epp/org.eclipse.epp.packages.git/tree/packages. I'm using org.eclipse.epp.packages.jee and org.eclipse.epp.packages.jee.feature. I can launch it and I can export it, but there are two problems I've encountered:
- The launched and exported packages differ from the original Eclipse for Java EE Developers (contains unneeded plugins - e.g. for RCP, and also the hierarchy in Help -> About Eclipse -> Installation details is a little different).
- I can't find any way to automatically resolve dependencies (the product is based on features) - in order to export the package without any "missing import/package" errors I had to add an existing unzipped Eclipse for Java EE Developers package in Window -> Preferences -> Plug-in Development -> Target Platform.
Is there any way to build the package without differences from the original version? And what is the proper way of handling missing plugins/dependencies?