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I am trying to create a default Eclipse , with all the plugins installed. So that my team always the same eclipse version , and don't have to installed any extra plugins.

Any idea , where I would have to make changes in order to default eclipse with such settings.

Thanks !!!

user1993412
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  • Well, you could install the plugins and zip again. What I do not know is how to prevent additional plugins if you want that too. – ronnyfm Jun 17 '13 at 21:18

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Assumig "with all the plugins" you mean all of eclipses official plugins: Go To Help->Install New Software, select the Eclipse Update Site (for example http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno) and install the plugins you need.

If you need other non-official plugins, just install them.

After that you can just zip the eclipse install folder again and distribute it

Simiil
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You can look at creating a "Shared install". This means that you create an Eclipse installation in a read-only location on a shared drive that all devs have executable and read access to. Then, when a dev launches the Eclipse instance, a custom configuration area is created in the user's ~/.eclipse folder.

This works fairly well. And end users can install their own plugins on top of the base install without affecting others. The only limitation that I am aware of is that some plugins cannot be installed unless the user has write access to the target install folder (Groovy-Eclipse is one example of this because of its use of a feature patch).

More information on shared installs can be found in Eclipse help.

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