How to append the osgi.configuration.area parameter to the generated config.ini in Eclipse 3.8.2?

I am desperately trying to configure my Eclipse product to fulfill the advices to achieve an Eclipse Multiuser Install (according to this document). I am following #2 and #3 by specifying a

osgi.instance.area=@user.home/.<productname>

as well as:

osgi.configuration.area=@user.home/.<productname>/configuration

The actual problem is, that the key osgi.configuration.area appears nowhere and therefore the wrong directory will be chosen to write internal osgi fileLocks. I would have expected it in the generated

product_location/configuration/config.ini

file by the org.eclipse.equinox.internal.frameworkadmin.equinox.EquinoxFwConfigFileParser in my build artefact.

I placed the arguments in the "Properties"-section of the "Configuration" tab of the product-editor.

According to the timestamp it seems this config.ini is created during the build process, but I am not sure. Does somebody know when this EquinoxConfigFileParser is activated and from where it obtains the parameters?

Solution

We normally do this by configuring the ProductName.ini file in your application root directory.
For example:

-data
@user.home/AppData/Roaming/PRODUCT/workspace
-configuration
@user.home/AppData/Roaming/PRODUCT/configuration

According to the eclipse runtime options:

osgi.instance.area is equivalent to -data
osgi.configuration.area is equivalent to -configuration

You can specify those arguments in your .product file. Switch to the "Launching" tab, insert into the "Program Arguments" field.