Use link file to install eclipse plugin

User can put a link file in eclipse dropins folder, so that it is easy to share plugins between different copies of eclipse, like I am using CDT and WTP. Here is an example link file:

create a file /d4/ux/j2ee/eclipse/dropins/sqlexplorer.link  with the following contents:

path=/d4/bin/eclipse/sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1

 

Note: on Windows you also need to use "/" instead of "/".

 

most people believe above folder should contain child folders so that it has the following on file system:

/d4/bin/eclipse/sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1/eclipse

/d4/bin/eclipse/sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1/eclipse/features

/d4/bin/eclipse/sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1/eclipse/plugins

 

Actually it is not mandatory to create folder sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1/eclipse. The folder on my file system is:

onega@ub-laptop:/d4/bin/eclipse/sqlexplorer_plugin-3.6.1$ ls
change_log.txt  features  plugins

 

This is convenient since many plugins does not contain "eclipse" as root folder in their zip package.