Making it simpler to install multiple plugins from Eclipse Marketplace?

Question

We have found that we need to have multiple plugins (at least egit and m2e-wtp) installed from Eclipse Marketplace every time we unpack a fresh copy of Eclipse Juno SR1.

Is there a simple way to tell Eclipse to do this? Perhaps an umbrella plugin available inhouse which depends on the marketplace or a magic file to copy into the unpacked distribution?

Windows-only will be fine.

Answer 1

I can think of two easy ways:

1. Package your own Eclipse version that have all the plugins and configuration you would want and use that instead of downloading. Programs exists that helps out with this if you want more control of the installations; SDC and Yoxos

2. Use the Eclipse director. You would create a script that starts upp Eclipse Director and it would download and install the plugins of your choice. Read more about it here

3. Create a shared installation. Just download and set up Eclipse once and then everyone can use the same installation. Read more here.