Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – serving an update site

Now that the update site has been developed, tested and automatically built, the final stage is to upload the contents of the update site (under com.packtpub.e4.update/target/repository) and make it available on a website or FTP server so that others can install it. If Python 2.7+ is installed, run a simple web server as follows.

1. Change to the directory com.packtpub.e4.update/target/repository.
2. Run the Python SimpleHTTPServer module (for Python 2) or the http.server module (for Python 3):

   python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
   Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...
   
   python3 -m http.server 8080
   Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...
   

3. Verify the update site by adding http://localhost:8080/ as a remote update site in Eclipse. ...