Time for action – installing a feature

Now that the feature has been exported, it can be installed into Eclipse. Either the current Eclipse instance can be used for this, or a new instance of Eclipse can be created by running the eclipse executable with a different workspace. (On macOS, double-clicking on the Eclipse.app will show the current Eclipse instance again. To run a second instance on macOS, open up the application in the terminal and run eclipse from the home of the application folder.)

  1. To install the feature into Eclipse, go to Help | Install New Software....
  2. In the dialog that is prompted, type the directory's URL in the work with field. If the feature was exported on Linux into /tmp/exported, then enter file:///tmp/exported into the ...

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