How to automate the installation of Eclipse plugins with ant task
In this blog post I suggest a simple way to automate the installation of Eclipse plugins with ant task and maven-antrun-plugin. ${project.basedir}/target/eclipse = eclipse dir (extract using maven dependency plugin) ${project.basedir}/target/p2-repo = p2 dir of plugins (extract using maven dependency plugin) sample1.feature.group, sample2.feature.group,.... = sample feature group names a snippet of my code follows. <plugin> <artifactid>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactid> <executions> <execution> <id>install-eclipse</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> <configuration> <tasks> <java classname="org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main" failonerror="true" fork="true" maxmemory="1024m" spawn="false"> <classpath> <fileset dir="${project.ba