Customized Axon.ivy Designer with my favorite plugins

Since Axon.ivy 7.1.0 we made some core features and SCM third parties uninstallable. All root entries, except the 'Axon.ivy Product' can be removed either manually via the Uninstall button or automated with the P2 Director application.

You can customize your eclipse installation for your needs by using the p2 director application. https://help.eclipse.org/oxygen/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_director.html

For me it makes totally sense to handcraft a Designer for your team. If a script does it and provides the resulting designer zip to a shared location. You can avoid documentation that describes the best setup of a designer.

Here is my script that removes all yet optional features of a Designer, but add the Market Place + Path Tools. The script is designed to run on a debian linux. But you can easily adapt the solution to run on windows...

#!/bin/bash

# download and unpack nightly designer:
UNPACKED=/tmp/designerToModify
MODZIP=/tmp/myCustomDesigner.zip
rm -rf $UNPACKED
URL=https://developer.axonivy.com/download/sprint-release/AxonIvyDesigner-latest_Windows_x64.zip
NEWZIP=`/usr/bin/wget $URL -P /tmp | grep 'saving to:.*'`
/usr/bin/unzip -q $NEWZIP -d $UNPACKED

# modify installation
## removes optional core parts:
## - rule.engine
## - webeditor
## removes optional team providers:
## - EGIT (GIT)
## - Subversion (SVN)
## installs additional bundles:
## - the Eclipse marketplace
## - PathTools
./Axon.ivy\ Designer \
-nosplash \
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
-repository \
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna/,\
http://cdn.rawgit.com/sandipchitale/pathtools/1.0.64/PathToolsUpdateSite/site.xml \
-installIUs \
org.eclipse.epp.mpc.feature.group,\
PathToolsFeature.feature.group \
-uninstallIU \
ch.ivyteam.ivy.designer.rule.engine.feature.feature.group,\
ch.ivyteam.ivy.designer.webeditor.feature.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.egit.feature.group,\
org.tigris.subversion.clientadapter.javahl.feature.feature.group,org.tigris.subversion.clientadapter.svnkit.feature.feature.group,org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.feature.group \
-purgeHistory \
-destination $UNPACKED \
-vmargs -Declipse.p2.mirrors=false -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

# zip to share with my team:
cd $UNPACKED
rm -rf $UNPACKED/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.repository/cache
/usr/bin/zip -0 -r -q $MODZIP $UNPACKED

The result is a lightweight Designer with just what i want. In my case - the Eclipse Marketplace: