The Eclipse Runner plugin improves the way of dealing with launch configurations in the Eclipse IDE. The plugin adds a new view called "Runner" to Eclipse. The view allows you to categorize and bookmark launch configurations in groups for example or to run them directly from within the view by double clicking on them.
Feature overview
- Keep your launch configurations organized.
- Categorize your launch configurations in custom groups.
- Browse your launch configurations in the separate Eclipse Runner view.
- Open the associated resource behind the launch configuration in the editor (e.g. the associated Java main class).
- Run or debug launch configurations directly from the view by double clicking on them.
- Last launch mode is remebered (Run, Debug, Coverage, ...)
- Filter launch configurations using the following filters:
- closed projects
- deleted projects
- uncategorized launch configurations
- current project
- bookmarked launch configurations
How to support this plugin project
- Contribute patches and new features. Help is always welcome.
- If you notice any bugs or missing features open an issue over at GitHub.
Further informations
Project Sponsors
- Netcup (english site | german site)
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Categories: Code Management, IDE, Other, Tools
Tags: run, debug, launch configurations
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2021-06 (4.20), 2021-03 (4.19), 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1), 2021-09 (4.21), 2021-12 (4.22), 2022-03 (4.23), 2022-06 (4.24), 2022-09 (4.25), 2022-12 (4.26), 2023-03 (4.27), 2023-06 (4.28), 2023-09 (4.29), 2023-12 (4.30), 2024-03 (4.31), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-09 (4.33)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: Eclipse Runner
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Monday, March 29, 2010 - 17:10
License: Other Open Source
Date Updated: Friday, October 6, 2023 - 10:48
Submitted by: Łukasz Wachowicz
Date | Ranking | Installs | Clickthroughs |
---|---|---|---|
October 2024 | 243/551 | 14 | 1 |
September 2024 | 221/642 | 75 | 13 |
August 2024 | 252/641 | 51 | 11 |
July 2024 | 234/663 | 64 | 16 |
June 2024 | 219/681 | 82 | 18 |
May 2024 | 234/682 | 78 | 18 |
April 2024 | 244/687 | 72 | 13 |
March 2024 | 240/694 | 81 | 10 |
February 2024 | 222/687 | 84 | 281 |
January 2024 | 258/691 | 67 | 10 |
December 2023 | 276/671 | 50 | 13 |
November 2023 | 310/686 | 48 | 17 |
Reviews Add new review
Useful to organize and run configurations!
Submitted by Mauro Marson on Mon, 11/13/2023 - 15:30
Great tool, thank you! It would be nice to add nesting folders (to better organize content) and export/import Runner configurations (when installing newer versions of eclipse).
Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Abhik Dey on Tue, 05/04/2021 - 14:56
Launches play a key role in my workspace and this plugin saves me so much time. Btw since bintray is no longer active currently i am unable to install it manymore. Any plans to publish ths via a replacement update site?
Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 02:10
In reply to Best plugin ever for launch handling by Abhik Dey
Hello Abhik! I was not aware up until now that bintray will change it's service offerings. I will take a closer look at this and certainly update the eclipse runner plugin update site as soon as possible. Thanks for the hint!
Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 10:43
In reply to Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling by Christoph Zauner
Just to let you know that I am currently working on this issue. I am going to setup a new Eclipse P2 update site. The new update site should be online in the next two to three days.
Re: Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 10:15
In reply to Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling by Christoph Zauner
The update site is now located at https://erp.nllk.net/p2/com.eclipserunner.p2_site/latest/. The eclipse-runner-plugin also has it's own website now located at https://erp.nllk.net/. The website is kind of minimalistic though ;-)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Abhik Dey on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 12:58
In reply to Re: Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling by Christoph Zauner
Many thanks for super speedy response. Tried it immediately and works like a charm.
Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by stefan koch on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 12:36
I really love your plugin!
I switched to 2018-12 (4.10) but I cannot install it on this version.
I see that you already support 2018-09 (4.9) and 2019-03 (4.11).
Any chance for 4.10 as well?
Re: Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 03:13
In reply to Plans for 201812 (4.10) support? by stefan koch
Hi Stefan,
I have added v4.10 to the list of supported versions of this plugin. Please try again to install the plugin and let me know if it works now.
Regards,
Chris
Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by stefan koch on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 07:49
I use this plugin on a daily basis. Well done, thank you!
I see 2018-09 (4.9) and 2019-03 (4.11) are already supported, any plans for supporting 2018-12 (4.10) as well?
I cannot install this form the marketplace in my version.
Export to runnable jar or similar output
Submitted by John Hemming on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 11:39
Thank you for writing Eclipse Runner which I wish I had installed before today. I wonder if you might consider adding a facility to export from the launch configuration to a runnable jar file (or some other similar types of export). As the launch configurations are used to specify things like the Main class etc it would seem quite logical.
Re: Export to runnable jar or similar output
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 14:50
In reply to Export to runnable jar or similar output by John Hemming
Hello John,
Thanks a lot for your feedback! Currently there are no plans to add such a feature. The ultimate goal of the eclipserunner plugin is to enable you to quickly execute repetetive and often needed tasks. Tasks which you need very often during development. E.g. starting a specific unit test while you are browsing code in an unrelated source file.
I think that the use case "exporting your program to a runnable jar file" is a task you typically execute far less often than use cases like "executing a specific unit test" or "start one of the programs which you have currently opened in your IDE".
Therefore I am not going to spend my time on implementing such a feature. But, I would happily accept a pull request if you want to contribute code implementing the feature requested by you. If you want I can also help you getting started... Just let me know.
Kind regards,
Chris
Link to P2 update site / repository updated
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 01:49
The Eclipse Marketplace has been updated to contain a valid Eclipse Runner P2 update site. Installing this plugin using the Eclipse Marketplace now works again.
P2 update sites and code repos
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 07:54
Lukasz and I are currently working on to update the Eclipse Marketplace with a valid P2 update site.
In the meantime you can use the update site from my eclipserunner repo (zaunerc/eclipserunnerplugin @ GitHub) or the update site from Michaels eclipserunner repo (scharf/eclipserunnerplugin @ GitHub). Feature-wise both repos currenlty contain the latest plugin version.
Hint: To browse the contents of Michaels P2 update site you need to use a P2 repo browser (e.g. the Repository Browser Plugin from the Eclipse Oomph project). Using a HTTP browser will result in a 400: Invalid request.
Repository not found, too
Submitted by rmotza (not verified) on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 03:27
the code and an installation website can be found (as said previously) on github: scharf/eclipserunnerplugin
Repository not found.
Submitted by Omer Yilmaz on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 00:15
The code.google link no longer has this plugin, I have found a fork of it on github:
scharf/eclipserunnerplugin
Works awesome.
icon of eclipse runner plugin with eclipse dark theme
Submitted by nimo mayr on Wed, 01/20/2016 - 04:23
The icon of eclipse runner plugin does not view well with eclipse when dark theme is enabled. Please update the icon of eclipse runner plugin by having transparent borders (png). Thanks.
Export facility
Submitted by Andy Middleton on Fri, 08/22/2014 - 12:02
Just a quick question - is there a way to export the settings? We have the same launch configurations over a number of laptops and it would save time if the settings are exportable.
thanks
Export settings
Submitted by Łukasz Wa… on Sat, 09/13/2014 - 15:57
In reply to Export facility by Andy Middleton
Hi Andy,
I'm not working on the plugin any more, but today o got an email from Michael who has forked the project in github and we're going to release a new version. So maybe it's a good moment for you to join the project and implement export functionality ? :-) i suppose it's not a big deal. if you're ready to hack, write me an email and i'll give you commiter rights to the plugin.
Lukasz
Awesome
Submitted by Artem N on Thu, 09/06/2012 - 02:50
Very nice feature. Simple and usefull, as it should be ))
Nice feature. Save a lot of
Submitted by kane zhu on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 23:46
Nice feature. Save a lot of time!
very nice, simple and usefull
Submitted by Andrew Kowal on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 06:22
very nice, simple and usefull tool =) if you have dozens of run targets - it's essential plugin for you. thanks a lot guys!