[Cs-studio-users] Question about plugin installation on cs-studio version 3

[Wang, L. <wa...@ih...>]

Hello,

I want to use Data Browser to access Archiver Appliance, but my cs-studio cannot identify the pbraw:// URL prefix and displayed the following error:

Error connecting to archive server
URL:pbraw://10.1.204.41:17668/retrieval
Detail:Unknown archive reader URL pbraw://10.1.204.41:17668/retrieval

Therefore, I probably need to install pbrawclient plugin for my cs-studio, but I am not familiar with eclipse platform and do not know which is the proper way to do that. Specifically, my questions are as follows:

1. I can find jar files like org.csstudio.archive.reader.appliance_1.0.1.201609071627.jar and pbrawclient-0.0.4.jar from other cs-studio products, which is the one I should use? Or neither?

2. Can I install the plugin directly in my cs-studio via "Help->Install New Software" or modifying configuration files? Or I need to rebuild the cs-studio source code to add the new plugin? Actually, I tried to drop above jar files into dropins or plugins folders and then add one-line plugin info to configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator\bundles.info, but it did not work.

My cs-studio version is old, it was built by my colleagues from sns_css_src_3.2.16 two years ago. The eclipse version is 3.7.0

Any suggestion is appreciated.


Thanks,
Lin