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<h2>Exporting a Feature</h2> | |
<p>First you have to set up the build configuration. The build | |
configuration includes information about the files and directories that should | |
be included in the feature for each individual plug-in and fragment. There | |
may be some design-time files and directories that should not be shipped. | |
See <a href="pde_feature_generating_build.htm">Build Configuration</a> for | |
details.</p> | |
Then you can use PDE's Export Deployable Features wizard to build and export the | |
feature. This way you are shielded from Ant scripts and your workspace is | |
never polluted with build by-products. | |
<p>Select <b>File > Export... > Deployable Features</b>.</p> | |
<p>Select the feature(s) you want to export. </p> | |
<p>A feature can be exported to an archive or a directory.</p> | |
<p>To publish a feature to an update site, the feature and its includes plug-ins | |
must be packaged as individual JAR archives.</p> | |
<p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/feature-export.png" alt="Export Features wizard" ></p> | |
<p align="left">Press <strong>Next</strong>.</p> | |
<p align="center"><img src="images/jnlp.PNG" alt="JNLP manifest generation"></p> | |
<p>You have the option to sign the JARs for added security. You also have the | |
option to generate JNLP manifests for <a href="../../org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/java_web_start.htm">Java | |
Web Start deployment</a>.</p> | |
<p>The wizard will build all the features selected and their included plug-ins | |
and fragments. Features go into a features/ subdirectory and plug-ins | |
go into a plugins/ subdirectory.</p> | |
<p> </p> | |
<p>The alternative would be to build features manually:</p> | |
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<li>Right-click on the feature.xml file for your feature project and choose '<b>Create | |
Ant Build File</b>'. This will generate a build.xml file.</li> | |
<li>Select the build.xml file and choose '<b>Run Ant...</b>' </li> | |
<li>In the Ant build script wizard, select the target(s) you want to run. | |
See <a href="pde_feature_generating_ant.htm">Generating Ant Scripts</a> for | |
details.</li> | |
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