Chapter 10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products

Features, Update Sites, Applications and Products – putting it together

Eclipse is much more than just an application; its plug-in architecture allows additional functionality to be installed. Plug-ins can be grouped into features, and both can be hosted on an update site. These allow functionality to be installed into an existing application, but it's also possible to build your own applications and products.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Create a feature that combines plug-ins
  • Generate an update site containing features and plug-ins
  • Categorize the update site
  • Create an application
  • Create and export a product
  • Use a target platform to compile against a specific version of Eclipse ...

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