Json Editor Plugin installation?

Question

I feel really stupid by asking this question, but how can I install Json Editor Plugin in my Eclipse Helios? I looked at the Forum in sourceforge, but I can't install it neither through .zip or by adding a web site. And will I need to change the execution environment to Java 1.6?

Answer 1

Here is what I did to get the Json Editor Plugin to show up in the Install Dialog.

By doing a little Google-ing, I found this page which describes the steps to install JsonEditorPlugin on 3.4.

After you have followed the first 6 steps, make sure that Group items by category is un-ticked. After that, you can then choose Json Editor Plugin to be installed from the local Zip archive that you have downloaded from the net.

Edit: as a side note, you must not have the unzipped contents of the zip archive in the dropins/ folder, otherwise it will appear as if the plugin is already installed.

Simply dropping the zip contents into the dropins folder however did work also.

Note: You must right click your .json file and choose 'Open with' -> 'Json Editor'

Answer 2

You can install plugins by just unzipping them into the dropins folder. It does not matter if the zip file contains the parent folders "plugins" and/or "eclipse".

I would recommend Java 1.6 as it brings a better performance and the plugin might require Java 1.6. On your desktop shortcut you use following execution arguments:

eclipse -vm <path to jre 1.6 installation folder>\bin\javaw