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Eclipse Plugins - How To Keep Up To Date

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Thu, 08/28/2003 - 13:00 — Christoph C. Cemper

IBM folks Mr Dejan Glozic and Dorian Birsan show how to create and publish bundles of plug-ins (called features) to an update site so that users can then download and install them directly into Eclipse using the Eclipse update manager. This has many advantages over the low tech way of delivering new or updated plug-ins in a zip file that someone manually unzips into the directory where Eclipse is installed… I hope very much, that a lot of Eclipse plugin developers will read and adapt it, because my set of plugins and the work with manual installation/update costs me minutes I would like to spend on more productive things (like finding this article :-)

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Thu, 08/28/2003 - 17:38 — Matthew Payne (not verified)

Eclipse Plugins - How To Keep Up To Date

One should be able to "Discover" new plugins(not just updates) without leaving eclipse.
Someone needs to step up to the plate and establish a central repository of open source plugins (as 1 feature/update site?). Discovering and maintaining bunch of sites is a hasle. I am okay with having a couple sites (2 central respositorys and an extra vendor), but not a site for every vendor and plugin author. A central repository would allow it to discover plugins like jedit( or feature discoveries like JPackage)..

Mon, 11/24/2003 - 17:31 — Patrick Schriner (not verified)

Eclipse Plugins - How To Keep Up To Date

@Matthew:
I asked the maintainer of http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/index.jsp , if there were any plans to include an rdf feed in the future. That would make it simpler, especially as there is a RSS plugin for Eclipse ("All the News"). The answer was that the original creator of the site (Urbaan) was currently too busy for adding any features, and someone else is just maintaining the site. But he seemed to like the idea.

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