Installing New Plug-Ins
The Eclipse Update Manager works by keeping track of the home update site of each plug-in. Eclipse aggregates this information in a file named platform.xml
in the /configuration/ org.eclipse.update
directory. To install a new plug-in, we need to tell the Update Manager where to grab it. We will walk through this process using the installation of PHPEclipse as an example.
Launch the Eclipse Update Manager. Select Search for new features to install and then click on the Next button. We will be presented with a list of software site bookmarks.
By default, Eclipse.org update site is pre-loaded so that Eclipse can update itself. This is a graphical, bookmark representation of the information stored in the features
directory. You can edit and manage all your update sites by returning to this screen. Each bookmark in this list will be checked in the future when Eclipse searches for updates. When we add a bookmark for PHPEclipse, we are not only installing the plug-in, we...