Question

Is it possible to download Glass-fish adapter plug-in for eclipse(Helios) separately not with ‘Install New Software feature in eclipse’?

Because I want to archive this plug-in and use it on another eclipse instances.

Regards

Answer 1

I prefer:

• install it through “Install new feature” (see How to install the GlassFish 3 server adapter with Eclipse Helios 3.6)
• and then move all its plugin and features .jar files into a shared dropins directory.

    /path/to/mydropins/
       glassfish
         eclipse
            plugins
              <= move the glassfish plugins.jar files here 
            features
              <= move the glassfish features.jar files here 

(see eclipse.ini to reference a shared dropins)

That way, any Eclipse installation which