Equinox p2 director application/Examples/Install into dropins

To install the GMF SDK and all its prereqs from the Ganymede Update site directly into the dropins folder, run this:

#!/bin/bash
############### start of configuration block ###############
workspace=/tmp/workspace-clean-34
eclipseroot=~/eclipse/34clean/p2director
installTargetFeatureGroup=org.eclipse.gmf.sdk.feature.group
bundlepoolDir=$eclipseroot/eclipse/dropins/${installTargetFeatureGroup}/eclipse
arc=`uname -m`
eclipseFancyName=helios
metadataRepository=http://download.eclipse.org/releases/$eclipseFancyName
artifactRepository=$metadataRepository

#eclipseTarGz=eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
# this one isn't the smallest for testing though:
# http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/heliossr1
eclipseTarGz=/tmp/eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

#vm=/opt/sun-java2-5.0/bin/java
#vm=/opt/ibm-java2-5.0/bin/java

# let's use default Java (explicit path)
vm=`which java`

############## end of configuration block ###############


pushd $eclipseroot >/dev/null
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
	rm -fr eclipse $workspace $bundlepoolDir	
	echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Unpack $eclipseTarGz ...";
	tar xzf $eclipseTarGz
fi


echo ""
echo "Using:       vm=$vm and workspace=$workspace";
echo "Installing:  ${installTargetFeatureGroup}";
echo "Destination: $bundlepoolDir";
echo ""

echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Running p2.director ... ";
#  -console -noexit -debug
./eclipse/eclipse -vm $vm -nosplash \
  -data $workspace -consolelog -clean \
  -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
  -metadataRepository $metadataRepository \
  -artifactRepository $artifactRepository \
  -installIU ${installTargetFeatureGroup} \
  -destination $eclipseroot \
  -bundlepool $bundlepoolDir \
  -profile ${installTargetFeatureGroup}.profile \
  -profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true \
  -p2.os linux -p2.ws gtk -p2.arch $arc \
  -vmargs \
    -Declipse.p2.data.area=$eclipseroot/eclipse/p2 \
    -Xms128M -Xmx256M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M 
echo "Installed sizes: "; du -shc $eclipseroot/eclipse $bundlepoolDir

echo "";
echo -n "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Starting Eclipse workbench (to verify installation) ...";
#  -console -noexit -debug
./eclipse/eclipse -vm $vm \
  -data $workspace -consolelog -clean \
  -vmargs \
    -Xms128M -Xmx256M -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M 

popd >/dev/null
echo " done."

If you need to translate this to Windows command syntax or wrap it with an Ant script, see Starting Eclipse Commandline With Equinox Launcher.