Chapter 25. The Last Mile
We are now down to what telephone companies call “the last mile”—actually delivering the product to the end-users. There are, of course, many different ways that you can deliver Hyperbola and other Eclipse-based products. Here we cover some of these options and detail other issues related to installing and configuring Eclipse-based products on the user’s machine. In particular, we cover:
delivery techniques such as archives, native installers, update sites, and JNLP
initializing an install before first use
delivering pre-configured installs
setting up shared installs
Archives
The simplest and most widely supported delivery mechanism is using standard zip and tar archive files. As you have seen, the Eclipse tooling directly ...
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