Correctly Configuring Eclipse for Lotus Notes 8.5 Plugin Development

Question

I've reached an impasse trying to get Eclipse configured for Lotus Notes 8.5 Plug-in Development, and am frantically searching for advice on how to do it correctly.

I've searched the Web and found several articles on how to do it, but none of them seem to be working on my machine. (I have not attempted to do it on another machine.)

The machine's configuration is as follows:

• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
• Intel Core i5 CPU
• 6 GB RAM

To the best of my knowledge, the following are the prerequisites:

• JDK 6 SE (SR 2) (32-bit)
• Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Designer (32-bit)
• Lotus Expeditor Toolkit 6.2.2 (32-bit) <-- WRONG!!! 6.2.1!!
• Eclipse Ganymede (32-bit)

Here are the installation & configuration steps I've taken.

1. Install the JDK and JRE to c:\java
2. Modify the computer's PATH environment variable to include C:\java\jdk6\jre\bin.
3. Extract Eclipse Ganymede to c:\eclipse.
4. Install Notes to c:\lotus\notes
5. Install Expeditor to c:\lotus\expeditor
6. Configure Expeditor as described here.
7. Configure Eclipse for Notes 8.5 development as described here.

The problem arises when I attempt to create a Client Services project (a plug-in). When I create the plug-in project, and Eclipse starts generating the code, the following are found in the Event Log:

• "Unable to satisfy dependency from com.ibm.pvc.tools.composite-feature.feature.group 6.1.2.200801281900 to requiredCapability: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu/org.eclipse.equinox.common/[3.2.0,3.3.0)."
• InvalidRegistryObjectException thrown in org.eclipse.core.resources. (Occurs multiple times.)
• ConcurrentModificationException was thrown in org.eclipse.core resources.
• And my favorite: Cannot nest 'C:Lotus/Notes/framework/rcp/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.esupport.client.product.SSC4TNF_4.0.0.20090925-1604/core' inside library 'C:Lotus/Notes/framework/rcp/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.esupport.client.product.SSC4TNF_4.0.0.20090925-1604' (This occurs for multiple packages.)

The list of exceptions goes on. I'll provide all I can if they're requested.

Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. It cannot be this difficult (or counter-intuitive) to get these technologies to play together.

Can someone please provide me with information about the correct requirements (prerequisites, et. al.) and how to set them up? This is kind of a mission critical thing, and the developer who originally did this work left no spec for his environment configuration. I'm completely in the dark.

HALP!!!!

EDIT

As pointed out, I'm using Expeditor 6.2.1, not 6.2.2. I verified this by viewing the license in the Expeditor folders, and viewing the contents of the site.xml file:

<site>
  <feature id="com.ibm.pvc.tools.composite-feature" patch="false" url="features/com.ibm.pvc.tools.composite-feature_6.2.1.20090918-0145.jar" version="6.2.1.20090918-0145">
    <category name="desktop" />
  </feature>
  <feature id="com.ibm.rcp.win32.devicetools.feature" patch="false" url="features/com.ibm.rcp.win32.devicetools.feature_6.2.1.20090918-0145.jar" version="6.2.1.20090918-0145">
    <category name="desktop" />
  </feature>
  <category-def label="desktop" name="desktop">
    <description>Lotus Expeditor Toolkit</description>
  </category-def>
</site>

Answer 1

You say you're using Lotus Expeditor Toolkit 6.2.2, yet in the first error message I read "6.1.2.200801281900". This seems odd to me. I read the first error message as: "The 6.1.2 group feature requires Equinox Common 3.2.0 or 3.3.0". Equinox Common for Ganymede is 3.4.x

Also, you may find some of the comments in this link useful...

Edit

I just noticed the error message says [3.2.0,3.3.0). I had assumed the closing parentheses was supposed to be a bracket, but I suppose it might be using range notation, in which case I'd guess it actually means it specifically requires 3.2.x.