Eclipse related tricks

Read instructions on http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Installer.

Get the installer from http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/. The file we need is called equinox.p2.installer-3.x….

To install a specific version of Eclipse, edit the file eclipse/installer.properties.

Find the update site of the release to be installed from http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites.

Insert the correct eclipse.p2.metadata and eclipse.p2.artifacts URL. For an Eclipse 3.6 milestone, one would enter:

eclipse.p2.metadata=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6milestones
eclipse.p2.artifacts=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.6milestones

Start the installer and install to a custom location.

Subversion client: Either Subclipse or Subversive. Included in Eclipse.

Texlipse, Update site.

Bytecode Outline http://asm.objectweb.org/ Update site

XML editors

EMF

Code Coverage: EclEmma Java Code Coverage, Update site

Web Page Editor