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• Plugins

Plugins

IDEasy supports to automatically install plugins for your IDE(s). For each plugin you want to configure, simply create a properties file in your settings at the following path:

$IDE_HOME/settings/«ide»/plugins/«plugin».properties

For example the Anyedit plugin for Eclipse is configured here.

Please consider that plugins will be created in alphabetical order. Therefore, if you want to install a plugin that depends on another plugin, ensure the filenames will be listed in the proper order.

The properties that can be configured per plugin can be found in the following table.

Table 1. Variables of repository import

Variable	Value	Meaning
id	e.g. AnyEditTools.feature.group	(required) This is the unique identifier of the plugin. For all JetBrains based IDEs like IntelliJ simply open Settings, navigate to Plugins, Select your desired plugin, click on Plugin homepage and scroll to the bottom of the page where you find it as Plugin ID (for example see org.asciidoctor.intellij.asciidoc). For Eclipse this is the technical ID of the plugin(s) and/or feature(s) to install as comma separated list. You still need to configure an url for Eclipse. For VisualStudio Code, this is the extension ID you can directly get from the URL parameter of the marketplace such as vscjava.vscode-java-pack.
url	Eclipse Update-Site URL	(optional) Only required for Eclipse to specify the URL of the update-site where the metadata and plugin can be downloaded from.
active	true	(optional) true to tell IDEasy that this plugin shall be installed automatically for everybody in your team. Default is false. If not auto-installed, it can still be installed via ide install-plugin «ide» «plugin».
tags	e.g. java,spring,ai	(optional) Tags to classify the plugin. Will be used by the GUI of IDEasy for selection by tag.