Plugin deployment - please help

I’m trying to deploy a plugin via the command line (rcplauncher), but I receive an error in the log:“java.lang.RuntimeException: No application id has been found.”

I use the following command line:

C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework\rcp>rcplauncher -application com.ibm.rcp.provisioning.application.ProvisioningApplication -provisioningOperation provision C:\updates\sidebar.xml

This is very similar to: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ledoc/v6r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.rcp.tools.doc.admin/JVMfeatures.html

Anyone got a clue on what is going on?

Thanks.