June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
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12.1. Installing a Plug-in
Problem
You want to install an Eclipse plug-in.
Solution
Download the plug-in, and expand it in
the Eclipse
plugins directory.
Discussion
Numerous plug-ins are available already, and many are free for the
downloading. To install a plug-in, stop Eclipse if
it’s running, and download the plug-in to the
eclipse directory, the
directory that contains the workspace and
plugins directories.
Tip
You can find more than 450 Eclipse plug-ins at http://www.eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/, and most of them are free. About 7,000 plug-ins are downloaded everyday from this site. Many of them support what Eclipse left out—especially drag-and-drop development for environments such as Swing, Struts, and SWT.
Eclipse plug-ins come zipped
or tarred, and you typically
uncompress them in the eclipse
directory. When uncompressed, the files for the plug-ins
are stored automatically in the
plugins and
features directories.
Each plug-in gets its own folder in the Eclipse
plugins directory.
Typically, you’ll find the following files in every
plug-in’s folder:
-
*.jar The code for the plug-in, stored in a
.jarfile-
about.html Shown when the user requests information about the plug-in
-
icons Directory for icons (the standard is GIF format)
-
lib Holds library
.jarfiles-
plugin.xml The plug-in manifest, which is what describes the plug-in to Eclipse
-
plugin.properties Holds text data used by
plugin.xml
Tip
Although you usually uncompress plug-ins in the
eclipse directory, some plug-ins ...
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