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Accept customizations for deployment in Rational Application Developer
All of the recommended mechanisms suitable for custom IBM Sales Center extension deployment and service depend on packaging those extensions as Eclipse update sites.
An Update Site consists at minimum of a plug-ins directory containing the Eclipse plugin and fragment JARs to be distributed, a features directory containing corresponding Eclipse feature JARs, and a site map file site.xml that describes the site and its contents. Additional optional content, such as HTML documents, can also be provided.
Rational Application Developer provides tools to create and test Update Sites. The Rational Application Developer Information Center describes these tools and how to use them at http://help.eclipse.org/help30/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/pde_sites.htm, and provides details about the site.xml file format at http://help.eclipse.org/help30/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/update_sitemap.html.
An Update Site can be used to install Eclipse features, and the plugins contained in those features, but it cannot be used to install "orphaned"plugins that are not contained in any feature. For this reason, before you can create an Update Site project in RAD first create one or more feature projects that will refer to all of the plugins to deploy.
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Automate builds in Rational Application Developer
Deploy customizations to the IBM Sales Center
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Related tasks
Create a feature project in Rational Application Developer
Create an update site in Rational Application Developer