Creating an Eclipse "Distribution"?

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Published on 2008-12-08T23:57:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 1:17 UTC
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In the context of creating a custom Eclipse distribution for a development team.

How would I go about building a custom Eclipse distribution containing a specific set of plugins? Would it be difficult to also add a kind of update site to put specific versions of the plug-ins from which the customized eclipse would update?

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