eclipse-pde

I am developing Eclipse plugins, and I need to be able to automate the building and execution of the test suite for each plugin. (Using Junit) Test are working within Eclipse, and I can break the plugins into the actual plugin and a fragment plugin for unit testing as described here , here and in a couple places here . However, each of the approaches above results in the same issue: The java ant task/commandline command that issues the build or should trigger the test, generates no observable side effects, and returns the value "13". I've tried everything I can find, and I've learned a fair

I have a plug-in to an Eclipse RCP application that has a view. After an event occurs in the RCP application, the plug-in is instantiated, its methods are called to populate the plug-in's model, but I cannot find how to make the view appear without going to the "Show View..." menu. I would think that there would be something in the workbench singleton that could handle this, but I have not found out how anywhere. You are probably looking for this: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView("viewId"); If called from handler of a command HandlerUtil