I am learning the basics of E4 RCP development. I followed the tutorial below to create a basic application and a plugin. http://www.rcp-vision.com/?p=4972&lang=en
The plugin is included in the dependencies of the .product file. When I right-click the .product file and run as eclipse application, I can see the application and the plugin, which just adds a new menu item labelled "plugin" to the application.
But when I export the application using Eclipse Product Export Wizard, the exported eclipse.exe only launches the main rcp application without the plugin (because the "plugin" menu item is not present in the GUI). The plugin is available as a .jar file in the plugins folder and it is also included in the osgi.bundles section of the config.ini file.
Why is the exported application not able to find the plugin?
Be sure to include the fragment.e4xmi file in the build.properties file.
When you run within Eclipse everything in the plugin project is available, but when you export a RCP only things listed in the build.properties are available.