Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello,

 

I’m trying to write an Eclipse 4 application using EPICS and CSS.

 

From inspection of the code, CSS’s views use the Eclipse 3.x compatibility layer; they inherit from ViewPart and call creatPartControl() to build the view. Elements of the Eclipse 4 application model on the other hand use annotations (i.e. @PostConstruct) to do the same.

 

If I try and use a CSS ViewPart in my Eclipse 4 application, I typically get nullPointerExceptions where the CSS class tries to access the Eclipse  3.x API (e.g. getSite()). Does anyone have any advice on how I can get around this issue to use CSS views in my Eclipse 4 application?

Many thanks,

Adrian Potter

ISIS Computing Group