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FAQ How do I create an update site (site.xml)?

Revision as of 19:05, 26 July 2007 by Codeslave.ca.ibm.com (Talk | contribs) (add FAQ category)

First create a new plugin project

New -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-in Project

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You can select a template for creating your project or even just create a blank one in case you know how things work.

Now you have to create your feature project.

New -> Plug-in Development -> Feature Project

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Here is the point where you link your Plugin project with your Feature Project.

Open the feature.xml file on your Feature project.

On plugins tab click on add and select your project then save the file.

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The last piece is the Update site project. To create it go to

New -> Plug-in Development -> Update Site Project

Site.jpg

Now we just have to link the Feature project with the Update site, and you're good to go.

To do that, open the site.xml file on your Site project.

Add Feature -> Select your project.

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In case you want to add a category for your feature, just click on New Category,

name it as you want then drag the feature site over the category.

The category is the name displayed when a eclipse client is installing your plugin by update-site.

Save it then click on Build All to build all features and plug-ins recursively required for this update site.

You can simply drag the contents of your Update Site project to an file transfer protocol (FTP) client to publish at a Web site.

Alternatively, you can even test out the update site directly by selecting Help > Software Updates > Find and Install... > Search for new features to install > Add Local Site...

and finding the workspace project on your local file system.




This FAQ was originally published in Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs. Copyright 2004, Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. This text is made available here under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0.

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