Plugin - Link Files

Managing Plugins and Features with Link Files and Extension Locations

…you can have lots of .link files and lots of install locations…

Check this out… Managing Installed Eclipse Plug-ins

Setup

I have installed Eclipse to:

C:\tools\eclipse

Plugin Folder

Create a folder which will contain your plugin:

C:\repository\eclipse\plugins\checkstyle_4.3.2

Inside this folder create an eclipse subfolder:

C:\repository\eclipse\plugins\checkstyle_4.3.2\eclipse\

Install any plugins you want to use into this eclipse sub-folder. Your folder structure should look like this:

C:\repository\eclipse\plugins\checkstyle_4.3.2\eclipse\features\
C:\repository\eclipse\plugins\checkstyle_4.3.2\eclipse\plugins\

Eclipse Configuration

Create a links folder inside Eclipse:

C:\tools\eclipse\links\

In this folder create a .link file which points to your plugin folder:

e.g.

C:\tools\eclipse\links\checkstyle_4.3.2.link

In this file, create a path property pointing to your plugin folder e.g.

path=/repository/eclipse/plugins/checkstyle_4.3.2

Note:

This file:

• Must end with a new line.

• Must not end with a trailing slash.

• Can be called anything ending in .link.

• should only contain forward slashes in the path.

Start Eclipse with the -clean flag:

eclipse -clean