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Hi,
We are looking to develop an internal IDE comprised of a JDK, Eclipse, MyEclipse and JBoss in single directory structure, stored as a simple zip file on a server. The zip file would be downloaded by other developers and unzipped into their local windows machine.
A centralized group would provide the care and feeding for all four tools. The centralized group would be repsonsible to ensure that the MyEclipse licenses are put in prior to distribution (we have 10-15 currently) and that they are updated accordingly.
Therefore, do we have to run the MyEclipse installer when putting this on a new machine? What does the installer do — does it put any the local registery? Are there other issues that we might be overlooking?
Thank you for the help,
James
James,
No the installer is not necessary. Actually you most likely want the Manual Installer (it’s just a zip file). The only step you need to do when using the manual install (after unzipping MyEclipse) is to just be sure to add it as a product extension to Eclipse from the Help > Software Update > Manage Configuration menu.@support-rkalla wrote:
James,
No the installer is not necessary. Actually you most likely want the Manual Installer (it’s just a zip file). The only step you need to do when using the manual install (after unzipping MyEclipse) is to just be sure to add it as a product extension to Eclipse from the Help > Software Update > Manage Configuration menu.Thank you for the quick feedback. This is great news.
But I am still confused about MyEclipse – isn’t MyEclipse just” a bunch of plugins? (Please note that the word just was is quotes as I think that this is the best tool that Java developers have today – along with Eclipse, of course). This is the only plug-in with its own directory! And what is the value of the MyEclipse directory? Why is MyEclipse set up differently?
If this is explained elsewhere, please just re-direct me.
Thanks,
JamesYou are right, it is a set of plugins. But there are so many plugins that it is suggested by the platform docs to package them all into a product “Extension” and install them as such. This is all covered here: http://help.eclipse.org/help31/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/product_extension.htm
This is so instead of going and dropping 180+ plugins into your Eclipse/plugins dir and having all your plugins stomped all over, you keep things cleanly separated.
