Installing a plain plugin jar in Eclipse 3 5

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Since Eclipse 3 5 there seems to be no option to have drop a plugin jar   not a feature   in the Eclipse base directory and have it picked up at next startup   Is there any possiblity to have plain plugins jars installed in Eclipse 3 5

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in Eclipse 4 4 1   copy jar in  C  eclipse plugins  edit file  C  eclipse configuration org eclipse equinox simpleconfigurator bundles info  add jar info  example  com soft4soft resort jdt 2 4 4 file plugins com soft4soft resort jdt 2 4 4 jar 4 false restart Eclipse

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go to Help -  Install New Software    -  Add -  Archive     Done

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Simplest way - just put in the Eclipse plugins folder  You can start Eclipse with the -clean option to make sure Eclipse cleans its  plugins cache and sees the new plugin   In general  it is far more recommended to install plugins using proper update sites

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This is how you can go about it    Close Eclipse Download a jar plugin  let s assume its testNG jar  Copy testNG jar to a certain folder  say C  Project resources plugins  In your Eclipse installation folder  there is a folder named dropins  could be C  eclipse dropins   create a  link file in that folder   like plugins link  Open this file with any text editor and enter this one line                  path C  Project resources plugins Save the file and start Eclipse    And you are good to go    Please do not forget to change your backward slashes in your plugins folder path to forward slashes on step 5  I used to forget and it would take my time unnecessarily

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For Eclipse Mars  I ve just verified that  you to do this  assuming that C  eclipseMarsEE is root folder of your Eclipse     Add plugins folder to C  eclipseMarsEE dropins so that it looks like  C  eclipseMarsEE dropins plugins Then add plugin you want to install into that folder  C  eclipseMarsEE dropins plugins someplugin jar Start Eclipse with clean option   If you are using shortcut on desktop then just right click on Eclipse icon   Properties and in Target     field add  -clean like this  C  eclipseMarsEE eclipse exe -clean      Start Eclipse and verify that your plugin works  Remove -clean option from Target field

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Since the advent of p2  you should be using the dropins directory instead      To be completely clear create  plugins  under   dropins    and make sure to restart eclipse with the  -clean  option

[eclipse] Installing a plain plugin jar in Eclipse 3.5

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