General How can I configure logging in the editor?

To get log4j to read your own configuration when developing the editor or anything that has to do with cdmLibrary eclipse plugin you have to tell log4j explicitly what configuration it should use. Otherwise it will scan the classpath and use the first log4j.xml/log4j.properties file it finds (which is mostly the log4j.properties in cdmlib-commons as it will be the first one it encounters).

Passing the following argument to the Virtual Machine however does the trick:

-Dlog4j.configuration=file:///<path to your personal>/log4j.properties

If you run into trouble , you can debug log4j's startup sequence by passing another argument to the VM.

-Dlog4j.debug Some of the taxeditor projects have errors

And the errors do look like the cdmlib dependecies can not be resolved, there are two possible solutions for this problem.

  1. cdmlib-plugin does not contain the cdmlib dependencies

    Please follow the instructions on how to initialize the cdmlib-plugin

  2. Your classpath is outdated

    Update your classpath by right-clicking any of the taxeditor-* projects and choose PDE Tools -> Update Classpath.... Click <Select All> in the dialog and confirm.

 Launching the editor from eclipse is simply not working for me.

This could be due to many reasons. Please have a look at the Troubleshooting Editor Launches document on the developers wiki.

 I get a "RuntimeException: No application id has been found." preceded by lots of "Missing required bundle" errors when launching my run/debug configuration

Whenever you change something in the plguin dependency hirarchy, i.e. adding, (re)moving, or renaming a dependant plugin your run configuration does not know about that automatically. To solve this:

  • In eclipse, open the Run Configurations wizard
  • Choose the run configuration in question
  • Select the Plug-ins tab
  • Click Deselect All from the buttons on the right
  • Click Add Required Plug-ins
  • Apply your changes

The editor should launch again.