Do several eclipses for different sets of functions or one eclipse contain all plugins?

Question

Eclipse can contain many different features installed through plugins. Do you install all plugins in one eclipse? or do you install STS from spring, Flex eclipse from adobe or even the RCP development kit from eclipse.org, does each eclipse variant handle its task accordingly?

Which direction do you prefer and why? quick response? to avoid problems with updating / installing plugins?

thanks

Answer 1

In eclipse, I prefer to install them separately, because it seems that everything works smoothly, without updating things as they become available, only in general, this leads to a lot of duplication, though ... With Netbeans (which I prefer) I usually install everything in one place, and it also works smoothly, even when I update various plugins and add and remove others.

Answer 2

If you have enough power on your workstation (and eclipse.ini on the right ), you can:

• install all the main plugins in one operation (choosing the most complete distribution , for example, J2EE)

• install any other external plugins in the shared directory (this means that these plugins will continue to reference any new version of eclipse distro that you can install in the future)

Answer 3

I separate groups of related plugins / functions by defining individual installation locations (you used to be able to do this through the IDE, you cannot find the button you need at the moment, see here for some recommendations on how to do this manually). This way you can enable / disable groups if you need to. Installation positions can also be shared between different Eclipse installations (with caution!), And if you completely destroy or want to upgrade Eclipse, you can redefine the eternal places in the new installation, without the need to download.