Deprecated API

Contents

• Deprecated Interfaces
• Deprecated Classes
• Deprecated Fields
• Deprecated Methods
• Deprecated Constructors

Deprecated Interfaces

Interface and Description
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.IPDELauncherConstants use IPDELauncherConstants instead.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.IProvisionerWizard Use org.eclipse.pde.ui.targetLocationProviders extension with ITargetLocationWizard instead

Deprecated Classes

Class and Description
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration use AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration
org.eclipse.pde.ui.templates.ChoiceOption see RadioChoiceOption and ComboChoiceOption
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.EclipseApplicationLaunchConfiguration use EclipseApplicationLaunchConfiguration
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.EquinoxLaunchConfiguration use EquinoxLaunchConfiguration instead.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.EquinoxPluginsTab use BundlesTab
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.EquinoxSettingsTab use OSGiSettingsTab
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.JUnitLaunchConfigurationDelegate use JUnitLaunchConfigurationDelegate instead.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.OSGiLaunchConfigurationDelegate use OSGiLaunchConfigurationDelegate instead.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.OSGiLaunchConfigurationInitializer use OSGiLaunchConfigurationInitializer instead.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.PDESourcePathProvider use PDESourcePathProvider instead.

Deprecated Fields

Field and Description
org.eclipse.pde.core.IModelProviderEvent.ENVIRONMENT_CHANGED Since the 4.4 Luna release, target platform changes are not tracked as model events
org.eclipse.pde.launching.AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration.shouldVMAddModuleSystem This field was wrongly added and is no longer used.
org.eclipse.pde.core.IModelProviderEvent.TARGET_CHANGED Since the 4.4 Luna release, target platform changes are not tracked as model events
org.eclipse.pde.launching.IPDELauncherConstants.TRACING_SELECTED_PLUGIN This option is no longer supported in the launch config. A recent selection is stored in dialog settings.
org.eclipse.pde.launching.IPDELauncherConstants.USEFEATURES As of 3.6 the feature-based self-hosting option is not supported
org.eclipse.pde.launching.IPDELauncherConstants.VMINSTALL use IJavaLaunchConfigurationConstants.ATTR_JRE_CONTAINER_PATH

Deprecated Methods

Method and Description
org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin.TargetPlatform.createPlatformConfiguration(File, IPluginModelBase[], IPluginModelBase) Old Update Manager is planned for removal and so it this API.
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.AbstractLauncherTab.createStartingSpace(Composite, int)
org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin.IPluginModelBase.getBuildModel() This method has always returned null. Since 3.7, use PluginRegistry.createBuildModel(IPluginModelBase) instead.
org.eclipse.pde.launching.JUnitLaunchConfigurationDelegate.getClasspath(ILaunchConfiguration)
org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin.IPluginModelBase.getNLLookupLocation() The URL returned is not encoded. If the file path contains special characters such as # this URL cannot be used for opening streams. Instead use ISharedPluginModel.getInstallLocation() and create the URL using an encoding tool such as URIUtil. Deprecated in 4.3.
org.eclipse.pde.core.project.IBundleProjectDescription.setBundleClassath(IBundleClasspathEntry[]) use IBundleProjectDescription.setBundleClasspath(IBundleClasspathEntry[])
org.eclipse.pde.launching.AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration.updatePDELaunchConfigModuleSystem(boolean) This method was wrongly added and is no longer used. It is a no-op now.

Deprecated Constructors

Constructor and Description
org.eclipse.pde.ui.launcher.PluginsTab(boolean) As of 3.6 the feature-based workspace launch option is no longer available, so there is no need to set this flag