Eclispe should be very familiar, in general, the Eclipse plugin is installed in the Plugins directory. But then, after many plugins have been installed, Eclipse has changed, the most important thing is not to make updates and manage numerous plugins. Install the Eclipse plugin by links to solve this problem.
Current configuration XP SP1, Eclipse3.0.1
Now, my Eclipse installation directory is d: / eclipse, to be installed, the plugin directory is d: / plug-in, I will have to install LanguagePackFeature (language package), EMF-SDO-XSD-SDK, GEF-SDK, LOMBOZ four Plugin.
First put all the four plugins in the D: / plug-in directory, decompressed separately. If Lomboz3.0.1.zip is decompressed into a Lomboz3.0.1 directory, this directory contains a Plugins directory, first create a subdirectory Eclipse in the Lomboz3.0.1 directory, then move the plugins directory to the original Eclipse directory, that is, the directory structure This: d: /plug-in/lomboz3.0.1/eclipse/plugins
Eclipse will find the Eclipse / Features directory and the Eclipse / PLUGINS directory to see if there is a legal feature and / or plugin. That is, the target directory must contain a / eclipse directory. If found, the additional feature and plugin will be available in the runtime configuration, if the link file is added after the workspace is created, the additional functional part and the plugin will be processed as a new configuration change.
If other compressed files are decompressed, if the Eclipse / Plugins directory already contains, the Eclipse directory is not required.
Then establish a subdirectory Links in the Eclipse installation directory D: / Eclipse directory, create a link file in the links directory, such as languagePackfeature.LINK, change the file content for path = d: / plug-in / languagePackfeature, this LINK file Corresponding to a plugin directory that just decompressed.
Description:
1. The plugin can be installed in multiple custom directory separately.
2. A custom directory can install multiple plugins.
3. The file name and extension of the LINK file can take any name, such as ddd.txt, and myplugin.
4. The path path of the PATH = plugin directory in the link file is separated // or /
5. There are also multiple link files in the Links directory, and the PATH parameters in each Link file will take effect.
6. The plugin directory can use a relative path.
7. A subdirectory can be created in the Links directory, transfer to the plugin that is temporarily unused to this subdirectory, speeding Eclipse boot.
8. If you can't see the plugin after installation, delete the Configuration directory under the Eclipse directory and restart.
Note: About installing the LOMBOZ plug-in with a LINKS, you may have problems when editing EJB, which will be discussed in the article about the Lomboz plugin.
