Issues with bndtools Eclipse dev instance on MacOS Sonoma 14.3+ with temurin JDK > 17.0.09+9

[chrisrueger]

Based on eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt#1012 (comment) and comments below.

The problem: new contributors will have a hard time figuring out what's wrong because the dev child eclipse instance shows a broken Ui without buttons etc.

This happens under the following setup:

• MacOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

and any Eclipse Temurin JDK > 17.0.09+9 such as:

• OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-17.0.11+9
• as well as OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-21.0.3+9

Then, when launching bndtools Eclipse dev instance via bndtools.cocoa.macosx.aarch64.bndrun it looks like this:

Workarounds

• it works e.g. with JDK Temurin 17.0.9+9 or other JDKs as pointed out here.

Relates to #5815

[chrisrueger]

@pkriens @bjhargrave @kriegfrj
I read in https://bnd.discourse.group/t/test-bnd-bndtools-bundle-in-eclipse/358/8 that P2 Repo for Eclipse 4.25 https://bndtools.jfrog.io/ui/native/bnd-build/eclipse/4.25/ is hand crafted.

I was wondering how this was done. Any docu links?

Furthermore: in #5815 @peterkir was mentioned, that who is working on some contributions (I guess this refers to the Oomph templates). @peterkir could you share your thoughts on that issue?

Basically what I am asking is:
How can we get from the current Eclipse 4.25 (2022-09) to e.g. the latest Eclipse 4.32 (2024-06)?

[bjhargrave]

I read in https://bnd.discourse.group/t/test-bnd-bndtools-bundle-in-eclipse/358/8 that P2 Repo for Eclipse 4.25 https://bndtools.jfrog.io/ui/native/bnd-build/eclipse/4.25/ is hand crafted.

I was wondering how this was done. Any docu links?

Yes, I did the hand crafting. I don't have any docs on what I did. It happens so infrequently, I had no confidence what I did for 4.25 would even apply to any future eclipse release.

[chrisrueger]

Thanks @bjhargrave

In the meantime I took a shot in the dark and just upgraded Eclipse SWT to the latest version (from 3.121 to 3.126) and I suddenly everything looks fine again.
I created #6186 and will do more testing with out app locally.

[pkriens]

Wasn't @kriegfrj also intending to something with an update for this?