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13  <h1> Eclipse-based Products and Extensions</h1>  <h1> Eclipse-based Products and Extensions</h1>
14  <p>Last modified 15:00 Thursday May 9, 2002</p>  <p>Last modified 14:00 Friday June 21, 2002</p>
15  <p>Eclipse technology is the foundation of, and provides building blocks for,  <p>Eclipse technology is the foundation of, and provides building blocks for,
16  products aimed at the software development tools market. Commercial software  products aimed at the software development tools market. Commercial software
17  vendors are expected to build, brand, and package products using the Eclipse  vendors are expected to build, brand, and package products using the Eclipse
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144  overall personality of the Eclipse platform. This is the called the product's <b>primary  overall personality of the Eclipse platform. This is the called the product's <b>primary
145  feature</b>, and it controls highly visible things including the splash screen,  feature</b>, and it controls highly visible things including the splash screen,
146  window branding images, the about box, the welcome page, the default  window branding images, the about box, the welcome page, the default
147  perspective, and customization of the default settings of plug-in preferences.  perspective, and customization of the default settings of plug-in preferences. The typical product has
148  Strictly speaking, a product could have more than one primary feature; the  just one eligible primary feature, and it is determined by the &quot;<code>feature.default.id</code>&quot;
149  selection of which primary feature gets control is done via the <code>-feature</code>  property of the product's <code>install.ini</code> file. If there are multiple
150  command line option to&nbsp; <code>eclipse.exe</code>. The typical product has  eligible primary features, the <code>-feature</code>
151  just one eligible primary feature.</p>  command line option to <code>eclipse.exe</code> overrides the choice made in the
152    <code>install.ini</code>.&nbsp;</p>
153  <p>Summary of characteristics of products:</p>  <p>Summary of characteristics of products:</p>
154  <ul>  <ul>
155    <li>a product is installed in a single directory tree</li>    <li>a product is installed in a single directory tree</li>
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166      features</li>      features</li>
167    <li>a primary feature determines the Eclipse workbench overall appearance and    <li>a primary feature determines the Eclipse workbench overall appearance and
168      personality</li>      personality</li>
169    <li>a dominant primary feature must be selected for each run</li>    <li>the default primary feature is specified in the product-specific
170        install.ini file</li>
171    <li>the update manager can update the features and plug-ins installed with the    <li>the update manager can update the features and plug-ins installed with the
172      product</li>      product</li>
173    <li>the update manager can install and configure additional features and    <li>the update manager can install and configure additional features and
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