My plugin doesn't show up in Eclipse "Show view"

Question

I created my first Eclipse plugin. Plugin has one view.

When I ran my plugin project(Overview>Testing section>Launch an Eclipse application), it shows in Eclipse workbench and "Show view" menu.

Then I copy & paste exported plugin jar file to Eclipse's plugins folder.

Unfortunately I can't found my plugin view in Show view menu.

I also paste dropins and dropins/plugins folder. But it doesn't works.

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OS : Windows 7

Eclipse : Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers [Kepler Service Release 2]

plugin.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.4"?>
<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views">
      <category
            name="String Table"
            id="com.andcontinue.stringtable">
      </category>
      <view
            name="String Table"
            icon="icons/sample.gif"
            category="com.andcontinue.stringtable"
            class="com.andcontinue.stringtable.views.StringTable"
            id="com.andcontinue.stringtable.views.StringTable">
      </view>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.help.contexts">
      <contexts
            file="contexts.xml">
      </contexts>
   </extension>

</plugin>

I don't know why plugin be not displayed in Show view.

Other references

build.properties

source.. = src/
output.. = bin/
bin.includes = plugin.xml,\
                .,\
                contexts.xml,\
                icons/,\
                META-INF/,\
                .classpath,\
                src/,\

MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: String Table
Bundle-SymbolicName: (MyPackage);singleton:=true
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0
Bundle-Activator: (MyPackage).Activator
Bundle-Vendor: Vendor
Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui,
 org.eclipse.core.runtime,
 org.eclipse.core.resources;bundle-version="3.8.101",
 org.eclipse.jdt.core;bundle-version="3.9.2"
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy
Export-Package: (MyPackage),
 (MyPackage).views
Import-Package: org.eclipse.jface.text
Bundle-ClassPath: .
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6

Please help me.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Some Clues:

1. Check after installation of plugin whether is it appearing in Running Platform. Go to Window > Preferences> Plugin Development > Target Platform select Running Platform click on Edit and check your plugin. The presence shows that Platform detected your plugin but there may be some issues in your code.

   Note: I am assuming you used the Running platform as your target.

2. Instead of directly copying the jar into folder. Install this plugin via GUI. Export your plugin to an external folder or to an archive file. Go to Help > Install New Software... Click on Add button then select a local folder or archive file. If there were some problems exists while exporting then this installer displays this.