CS-Studio ESS Product

ESS-specific configuration for CS-Studio

|----[+] repository:
|     |---- cs-studio-ess.product: The product definition file (.product),
|             this is the file which defines the list of features that are to be included into your project.
|             To inlcude or exclude additional feature simply add or remove them
|   
|----[+]  features: The features module conatins all the site specific features.
|     |----[+] o.c.ess.product.configuration.feature: The feature containing customization and config files.
|     |     |----[+]rootfiles/configuration
|     |           |---- plugin_customization.ini (optional): A config file defining site specific preferences
|                                                       for the various applications included in the product.              
|     |           |---- *.conf (optional): AA configuration files                  
|     |---- (optional) Extra features to be included in your product(To add your own plugins and applications)
|                      from the list of dependencies of this product.
|
|----[+]  (optional) plugins: The plugins module will contain all your site specific plugins.

Building the Product

The cs-studio product can be build using maven tycho. Run maven verify for the top level pom (in org.csstudio.ess.product)

mvn clean verify

Eclipse IDE Integration

Setting up Eclipse IDE to compile, run and debug CS-Studio is explained in Control System Studio Guide, chapter 4: Compiling, Running, Debugging CSS, section: Using the Eclipse IDE. Refer to it for the instructions.

Target Platform on Neon

Using Eclipse Neon and following the Control System Studio Guide will almost certainly produce errors at start-up of CS-Studio, often of such gravity to impede the program to start. Solving the problem requires uncheck duplicates in the current Target Platform:

• Open the Preferences dialog,
• Select the Plug-in Development → Target Platform category,
• Select the currently checked Target definition and press the Edit… button,
• Select the Content tab in the Edit Target Definition dialog, then uncheck the second copy of each duplicated plug-in or the one with a lower version number,
• Press Finish, then Apply and OK.

Note that when a new library/plug-in is added to the application, it will result unchecked in the Target Platform, thus requiring it to me manually checked in the Edit Target Definition dialog.