18.5. Summary

Once you have created your product's plug-ins, features provide a mechanism for adding structure and branding. Branding elements, such as About pages are tied to the feature. The Eclipse Update Manager can load and unload a group of plug-ins packaged as a feature and can search Web-based update sites for new versions.

References

Chapter source (www.qualityeclipse.com/projects/source-ch-18.zip).

Eidsness, Andrew, and Pascal Rapicault, "Branding Your Application," OTI, September 16, 2004 (www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Branding/branding-your-application.html).

Adams, Greg, "Creating Product Branding," OTI, November 27, 2001 (www.eclipse.org/articles/product-guide/guide.html).

Glozic, Dejan, and Dorian Birsan, "How to Keep Up to Date," IBM, August 27, 2003 (www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Update/keeping-up-to-date.html).

McCarthy, Pat, "Put Eclipse Features to Work for You," IBM, October 14, 2003 (www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecfeat/).

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