Eclispe should be familiar to everyone. Generally, Eclipse plug-ins are installed in the Plugins directory. However, after many plug-ins are installed, eclipse becomes very large. The most important thing is that it is not easy to update and manage many plug-ins. Installing the Eclipse plug-in using links can solve this problem.
Currently, Win2000 SP4 and eclipse3.1 are configured.
Now, assume that my eclipse installation directory is D:/eclipse and the plug-in directory to be installed is D:/plug-in. I will install Tomcat plugin (Tomcat plug-in) and xmlbuddy (XML edit plug-in) and lomboz.
Put all the four plug-ins in the D:/plug-in directory and decompress them separately. For example, if lomboz3.0.1.zip is decompressed to the lomboz3.0.1 Directory, which contains a directory of plugins, you must first create a subdirectory eclipse in the directory of lomboz3.0.1, and then move the directory of plugins to the newly created eclipse directory, that is, the directory structure is D:/plug-in/lomboz3.0.1/Eclipse/plugins.
Eclipse will go to the specified directory to find the eclipse/features directory and Eclipse/Plugins directory to see if there are legal functional components and (or) plug-ins. That is to say, the target directory must contain a/eclipse directory. If the attached feature and plug-in are found, the configuration is available during the runtime. If the linked file is added after the workspace is created, the additional feature and plug-in will be processed as new configuration changes.
If the eclipse/Plugins directory is already included in other compressed files after decompression, you do not need to create an eclipse directory.
Then create a subdirectory links in the eclipse Installation Directory D:/eclipse directory, and create a link file in the links directory, such as languagepackfeature. link: Change the file content to Path = D:/plug-in/languagepackfeature. That is, the link file must correspond to a directory of the plug-in just extracted.
Note:
1. Plug-ins can be installed in multiple custom directories.
2. Multiple plug-ins can be installed in a custom directory.
3. The file name and extension name of The Link file can be any name, such as ddd.txt and myplugin.
4. In the link file, Path = the path of the plug-in directory must be separated by // or/
5. There can also be multiple link files in the links directory, and the path parameter in each link file will take effect.
6. The plug-in directory can use relative paths.
7. You can create a subdirectory in the links directory to transfer unused plug-ins to this subdirectory to accelerate eclipse startup.
8. If you cannot see the plug-in after installation, delete the configuration directory under the eclipse directory and restart.
9. I have installed all the required plug-ins in this way, totaling 26. If you have any trouble during the installation process, contact me!