Deploying IMP-based eclipse plugin

Question

I have a plugin for my own programming language for eclipse.
The plugin is based on IMP. When running the project via "Run as eclipse application" everything works as expected: I have an eclipse perspective of the language, I can compile/run files associated with my language. I tried getting the plugin into a clean eclipse install:
- I've created a feature project for my plugin
- I've created an update site project
- I've added my feature, the IMP runtime and the LPG runtime to my update site
- I've made sure to synchronize and build-all in the update site.
- I've tried "install new software" in the clean eclipse - no errors.

When I run my new eclipse, I cannot see the perspective of my language. Eclipse doesn't associate my files with any language / perspective.
Please advise!

Answer 1

I'm guessing that there was some kind of error that prevented your plugin from running. Here are some things you can look at:

1. The error log. Window -> Show view -> Error log
2. The plugin registry view. Look for your plugin and make sure it can be started
3. Start Eclipse with the OSGi console enabled. You can run some diagnostic commands to see what happens when your bundle is started (run eclipse -console to get the OSGi console on the command line)