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With the Tycho taking over the Eclipse world, majority of Eclipse products are built in a form of update sites or repositories. All features and plugins are present in the form of jars, which might be not sufficient to install them using Eclipse dropins. The feclipse-maven-installer takes such a repository and performs necessary p2 operations (simulate installation of features and plugins, during which necessary jars are unpacked). | |||
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Revision as of 07:06, 9 May 2013
Purpose
With the Tycho taking over the Eclipse world, majority of Eclipse products are built in a form of update sites or repositories. All features and plugins are present in the form of jars, which might be not sufficient to install them using Eclipse dropins. The feclipse-maven-installer takes such a repository and performs necessary p2 operations (simulate installation of features and plugins, during which necessary jars are unpacked).