How to make eclipse launch a program in the eclipse workbench from the command line?

How do I make eclipse launch a program in the eclipse workbench from the command line?

Specifically, I would like to run a command from the shell that causes my eclipse instance (which is already open) to run a particular program. If there is no program to do this from the shell, is there some RPC API that eclipse provides to make such a program?

I do not want to make a plugin. It must be a separate process that controls eclip开发者_运维百科se.

Eclipse Remote Control seems that it might do the trick https://github.com/marook/eclipse-remote-control from the Read me file.

Introduction

Eclipse plug-in project which adds remote control features to eclipse. Commands can be sent via the eclipse remote control client to a running eclipse instance.

I have not tried it myslef but I ran into it trying to figure out how to write an ant task that triggers .launch file

First create a batch file and save it in a location.
For example if I want to invoke notepad , I will write in the batch as follows
start notepad
In eclipse, you can configure external tools.
Goto Run -> External Tools -> External Tools Configurations.
You will be presented with a Dialog box.
Now Click on the New Configuration Icon.
In the right pane of Window you can assign a configuration Name.
In the Location Text Box, Click on the "Browse File System" Button, and select the batch file you have created earlier.

In the Common Tab, uncheck "Launch In Background".
You can set this configuration in Favourites menu, by clicking the checkbox "External Tools" under Common Tab.
Click on Apply.

Now you can Run your required application.
This is for Windows only.
I don't have any idea of this for Linux Machines.

Take a look at Product Configuration

1º Create a new Product Configuration (Ctrl+N), and select "Use a launch configuration" (or another option, if it's more convenient) on the first page of the wizard.
2º In the Exporting section you should be able to export your product using the "Eclipse Product export wizard".
3º To run the product, follow this instructions

Hope it helps.

Not a complete answer, but here are some things I've come across with Eclipse:

In general, you can open Eclipse from the command line with something like:

java -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -cp plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main

That Main launcher takes an -application flag where you can pass what I think are plugins (not sure). I've typically used this to run Ant within Eclipse:

java -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -cp plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -buildfile build.xml

I have no idea how to manipulate a running Eclipse instance, and I don't know if you can achieve your goals through an Ant script, but I thought these might be fruitful avenues.

Addition to ams' answer, marook's plugin just support very few commands.

open_file and execute_command with RUN/DEBUG/PROFILE

And marook also have a blog post about how to implement more command http://pielmeier.blogspot.com/2010/07/implementing-new-eclipse-remote-control.html

But as we all know, Eclipse plugin development is quite heavy weight.

So, I suggest just use execute_command with RUN by marook's plugin. The further function to Eclipse IDE, can be done by Eclipse EASE script engine. Write a light weight script and then RUN by marook's plugin, to avoid Eclipse plugin development.

More information about EASE can be found at:

https://opensource.com/life/16/2/how-use-python-hack-your-ide

There is also javascript script support:

https://git.eclipse.org/c/ease/org.eclipse.ease.scripts.git/tree/JavaScript%20Beginner%20Tutorial/02%20File%20IO/05%20Create%20sample%20project%20(using%20modules).js

Here you have a series of examples: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0014.html

Basically, you use:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);