Example Eclipse Installers

Last modified 17:45 Friday June 21, 2002

These example Eclipse installers demonstrate how Eclipse-based products and extensions are constructed and installed. These examples are made available by IBM under the accompanying license (license.html).

The examples consists of the following files.

  readme.html        
  license.html       (Example Eclipse Installers License Agreement)
  cpl-v10.html       (Common Public License v1.0)
  eclipse-product-1.0.0.exe    (pre-built product installer - Windows executable)
  eclipse-product-1.0.1.exe    (pre-built product installer - Windows executable)
  eclipse-extension-1.0.0.exe  (pre-built extension installer - Windows executable)
  eclipse-extension-1.0.1.exe  (pre-built extension installer - Windows executable)
  install-project/   (InstallShield project files)
    code/   
      ...
    data/
      ...
    resources/
      ...
  sample-site/       (example update site)
    site.xml         (site manifest file)
    ...

Native Install Scenarios

The following steps cover the bases with native product and extension installers (4 of 6). After each step we run the product to demonstrate that it is functioning correctly. This walk covers:

Raw materials: 2 example product installers (v 1.0.0 and 1.0.1);  2 example extension installers (v 1.0.0 and 1.0.1); JRE

  1. install product 1.0.0
  2. install extension 1.0.0 and link to product
  3. install product 1.0.1 over top product
  4. install extension 1.0.1 over top extension
  5. uninstall extension
  6. uninstall product

Detailed steps

Update Manager scenarios

The above scenarios do not involve the Eclipse update manager directly. 

The following steps cover the bases with updating natively installed products and extensions with the update manager. After each step we run the product to demonstrate that it is functioning correctly. This walk covers:

Raw materials: example product installer (v 1.0.0);  example extension installer (v 1.0.0); JRE; update site with product (v1.0.1); update site with extension (v1.0.1); access to Eclipse Nevada test site.

  1. install product 1.0.0
  2. install extension 1.0.0 and link to product
  3. update product 1.0.1 via update manager
  4. update extension 1.0.1 via update manager
  5. update eclipse platform via update manager
  6. uninstall extension
  7. uninstall product

Detailed steps