Welcome

Welcome to the project site of the marketplace catalog application for Eclipse.

This project aims to provide a server application that can be used in combination with the Eclipse Marketplace client, see http://eclipse.org/mpc/. This project was initiated by the developers of the Eclipse Remus project for hosting bundles on their own marketplace....

Purposes of this project

This project provides an easy way to deliver new software for any Eclipse application through a much better user interface than the core p2 install wizards. You have the possibility to manage your additional components via a web-interface, uploading screenshots and metadata and to track activity statistics like clicks and downloads. We have chosen the marketplace project and not the pure p2 discovery because of the easy categorization of bundles, the statistics, the ability to install solutions directly from an integrated browser and the possibility to visualize mutliple marketplaces in one user interface.

Installation

• Download the WAR Archive
• Customize the application.properties file under /WEB-INF/classes/application.properties - Make sure to create a database and a user which can be used by the application.
• Install it in your Application server.
• Enter http://[yourAppServer]/marketpace
• You'll see a html page with an empty feature-listing

RCP-Integration

• Add the bundle org.eclipse.epp.mpc.ui and its dependend bundles to your RCP Target
• Create an extension of org.eclipse.epp.mpc.ui.catalog
• Example:
  <extension
  

  point="org.eclipse.epp.mpc.ui.catalog">
  

  <catalog
  

  description="Marketplace for installing additional components for my RCP product."
icon="icons/marketplaceIcon.png"
label="MyRCP - Marketplace"
url="http://[yourAppServer]/marketplace/">
</catalog>
</extension>

Want to see the project in action?

Download the demo client (currently only for windows)
- Marketplace Demo Client (Windows 32bit)
- Marketplace Demo Client (Windows 64bit)

Or visit our demo marketplace...