I have been using ECLIPSE now for almost 2 years and still have not
figured out how to do this. Our company has a bunch of plug-ins that make
up our app. We have a complete ant-build system that can build the
plugins outside of ECLIPSE. All I want to do is load the plugins "AS IS"
using our MANIFEST.inf and plugin.xml files and use the ECLIPSE dev
environment without compiling any files within ECLIPSE.
When I load in a plugin now as a Plug-in Project, I go through the wizard
by filling out the first page and then unchecking the two check boxes in
the Plug-in Options box in the second page. ECLISPE then proceeds to load
my plugin project but then deletes my plugin.xml and then overwrites my
MANIFEST.inf. Bummer. I have tried to import the plugin, but that has
too many options for me and seems to complicated.