Question

I have a number of Eclipse versions installed. I noticed they have different icons in my task bar. The reason for this are different lines in the eclipse.ini files:

-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

versus

-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product

My question is now: What is the relevance of this? What does it affect? Anything besides the icon? What other products are there hidden in a normal Eclipse download?

I understand this comes from different downloads, but in the end it does not matter much which version you start with when you can add all the plugins.

EDIT: Assume I download the Java EE version, but like the icon of the standard Java version better. What ill effects can be expceted if I change the -product line in eclipse.ini?

Answer 1

I have now used an Eclipse download that was labelled as JEE (and used the jee product) for quite a while as a Java product and was not able to notice any difference except for the icon. Therefore, I have come to believe this is indeed the only effect.