Robert Munteanu

Robert Munteanu

Software developer, Open Source contributor, occasional blogger and all-round geek. Currently working as a computer scientist for Adobe on the Adobe Experience Manager product.

Latest blog post: Removing leftover bundles from Eclipse

Eclipse has a rich, wonderful, installer named p2. This installer manages your Eclipse plug-ins using a nice UI and allows you to add/remove features easily. Except when it doesn’t.

For the first time in several years, I was stuck with some bundles in my installation and could not get rid of them. Deleting them outright from disk is risky and confuses Equinox ( the OSGi framework powering Eclipse ) as I’m messing with its internal state. That type of operation is also discoraged in the p2 getting started documentation .

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