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ATF/XULRunner
< ATF
Mozilla XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that allows to embed and launch a complete Mozilla-based browser into an application.
At ATF we use XULRunner to embed Mozilla browser into Eclipse to provide advanced web development environment with such features as javascript debugging or browser DOM model inspection and more. You can get XULRunner from Mozilla downloads.
Following are the steps to package XULRunner into Eclipse update site so it can be consumed by Eclipse application. This steps require Eclipse 3.5.
- Check-out the org.eclipse.atf.mozilla.xulrunner.releng project from Eclipse CVS
- Paste this to Eclipse CVS Connection wizard :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/tools
- Check out this node from CVS: org.eclipse.atf/components/releng/org.eclipse.atf.mozilla.xulrunner.releng
- Import org.eclipse.pde.build into your workspace
- Click File->Import...,
- choose "Plug-ins and Fragments", press Next
- add "org.eclipse.pde.build" to plug-ins to import and press Finish.
- Launch build
- choose "Run -> Run Configurations...", select "XULRunner Packaging" and press Run.
- Ready!
- Now your XULRunner update site is ready! point your p2 Update Manager at org.eclipse.atf.mozilla.xulrunner.releng\build\result\xulrunner.zip and enjoy!
In case of any trouble please check PDE Help topic or ask at ATF forums.
Please also see Eclipse bug 286207 about automatically building XULRunner and Mozilla bug 507575 about publishing Eclipse update site on Mozilla.org.