Additional Extensions JDev 10.1.2

Question

It seems that the whole mechanism of reading in IDE extensions has changed between 9.0.5.2 and 10.1.2.
JUnit extension is provided for JDev 10.1.2 although currently using a link which is slightly incorrect.
Some other extensions that are an absolute necessity are the following:
1. PDK
2. Jalopy
Please provide status feedback on these, especially on the PDK.
Thanks
Itsik Rubin

Answer 1

I also experienced the problem with JDev 10.1.2 and Jalopy-JDevelopre 1.1.4 on startup seeing in the log:
Error: <Line 3, Column 21>: XML-24534: (Error) Element 'feature' not expected.
Error: <Line 11, Column 14>: XML-24521: (Error) Element not completed: 'extensions'I extracted the meta-inf directory inside the 10.1.2 junit_addin.jar and looked at the jdev-ext.xml file. It had an initial element that looked like this:
<extensions xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/jdeveloper/1012/extensions">I compared this with the jdev-ext.xml file that the Jalopy-JDeveloper 1.1.4 jar file has in its META-INF/jdev-ext.xml file, which instead looked like this:
<extensions>without the default namespace.
To avoid the error, I did the following to update the jdeveloper extension manifest file of the 1.1.4 Jalopy extension to match what I found in the 10.1.2 version of the JUnit extension. This seems to make it work for me.
1. Start with jalopy-jdeveloper-1.1.4.zip
2. Extract it into a C:\temp\jalopy directory
3. cd C:\temp\jalopy\lib
4. jar xvf jalopy-jdeveloper-1.1.4.jar META-INF
5. vi META-INF/jdev-ext.xml
6. Change the first line from just <extensions> to be <extensions xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/jdeveloper/1012/extensions"> instead, and save
7. jar uvf jalopy-jdeveloper-1.1.4.jar META-INF/jdev-ext.xml
to update the copy of META-INF/jdev-ext.xml in the jalopy-jdeveloper-1.1.4.jar jar file.
8. Copy all the *.jar files from C:\temp\jalopy\lib to <JDEVELOPER_10_1_2_HOME>\jdev\lib\ext