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How to add new features MANUALLY? [message #265616]

Thu, 16 October 2008 14:43

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: mstev.ozone.com

Ok I could use the menu help-Software Updates->Find and install...
to add/update new features to an Eclipse installation.

However is there a way to add/update features manually?

Assume I have downloaded a *.zip file with a new feature.
Can I simply extract it to the Eclipse directory tree?
Is the new feature automatically recognized by a running Eclipse
or do I have to re-boot Eclipse?

Do I have (in addition to the copy operation) "register" somewhere the new/update feature
or does Eclipse recognize the add/update feature automatically?

Do I have to extract only the "plugin" sub-folder or the "features" sub-folder as well?

Pia

Re: How to add new features MANUALLY? [message #265618 is a reply to message #265616]

Thu, 16 October 2008 18:13

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: atulwagle.gmail.com

Pia Stevens wrote:
> Ok I could use the menu help-Software Updates->Find and install...
> to add/update new features to an Eclipse installation.
>
> However is there a way to add/update features manually?
>
> Assume I have downloaded a *.zip file with a new feature.
> Can I simply extract it to the Eclipse directory tree?
> Is the new feature automatically recognized by a running Eclipse
> or do I have to re-boot Eclipse?
>
> Do I have (in addition to the copy operation) "register" somewhere the new/update feature
> or does Eclipse recognize the add/update feature automatically?
>
> Do I have to extract only the "plugin" sub-folder or the "features" sub-folder as well?
>
> Pia

Yes you can extract the zip file in the eclipse directory structure.
Once extracted, eclipse doesn't recognize the feature automatically, you
need to reboot it.

Now thats the only thing to do about it.

You need to extract both the directories, plugin and features.

The way I do this, is something like this. I don't want to mess with my
eclipse installation. so i created a directory on C:\MyEclipsePlugins
(or anywhere) and extract my plugin there. Now to link the plugin to the
eclipse installation is via a link file.
So my directory structure looks something like this:

C:\Eclipse3.3
\links
myplugins.lnk
...

The "links" directory is not created by default, you need to create it.
Now the "myplugins.lnk" looks something like this (it would be just a
single line)

c:\MyEclipsePlugins\<your plugin name>

Advantage obviously is u can used this plugin in multiple eclipse
installations at the same time.

Atul

Re: How to add new features MANUALLY? [message #265619 is a reply to message #265618]

Thu, 16 October 2008 20:14

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

For Eclipse 3.4:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins

Atul Wagle wrote:
> Pia Stevens wrote:
>> Ok I could use the menu help-Software Updates->Find and install...
>> to add/update new features to an Eclipse installation.
>>
>> However is there a way to add/update features manually?
>>
>> Assume I have downloaded a *.zip file with a new feature.
>> Can I simply extract it to the Eclipse directory tree?
>> Is the new feature automatically recognized by a running Eclipse
>> or do I have to re-boot Eclipse?
>>
>> Do I have (in addition to the copy operation) "register" somewhere the
>> new/update feature
>> or does Eclipse recognize the add/update feature automatically?
>>
>> Do I have to extract only the "plugin" sub-folder or the "features"
>> sub-folder as well?
>>
>> Pia
>
> Yes you can extract the zip file in the eclipse directory structure.
> Once extracted, eclipse doesn't recognize the feature automatically, you
> need to reboot it.
>
> Now thats the only thing to do about it.
>
> You need to extract both the directories, plugin and features.
>
> The way I do this, is something like this. I don't want to mess with my
> eclipse installation. so i created a directory on C:\MyEclipsePlugins
> (or anywhere) and extract my plugin there. Now to link the plugin to the
> eclipse installation is via a link file.
> So my directory structure looks something like this:
>
> C:\Eclipse3.3
> \links
> myplugins.lnk
> ...
>
> The "links" directory is not created by default, you need to create it.
> Now the "myplugins.lnk" looks something like this (it would be just a
> single line)
>
> c:\MyEclipsePlugins\<your plugin name>
>
> Advantage obviously is u can used this plugin in multiple eclipse
> installations at the same time.
>
> Atul

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