Export multiple projects as one Eclipse plugin JAR

Question

I have a multiple plugin projects :

• 4 for my SDL editor.
• 2 for the model-to-text integration
• and one for creating an Eclipse wizard to my editor.

I can export the projects as plugin jars via Eclipse (Deployable Plugins and Fragments), and everything works when i restart Eclipse to integrate these plugins.

What i want to do is to group all these projects in one jar file, that i can install on other Eclipse machines. Is there a simple way to do it ? (i am not a maven user :/ ).

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you have several related and inter-dependent plug-ins, they should be collected under a Feature . A Feature is a unit of separately downloadable and installable functionality. You can then create an Update Site to make installation of that Feature (and its plug-ins) easy.

See also this answer .

Answer 2

You can use a Feature project. In the feature you add all your plugins to the feature contents.

You then use 'Export > Deployable Features' to create an archive or repository containing all the plugin jars.