Eclipse PDE/Build

PDE/Build is a Apache Ant based build system for Eclipse RCP application and Eclipse plugins. This build system is also called "headless" build because it does not require a running Eclipse UI to create your product.

The PDE build system is part of the Eclipse plugin org.eclipse.pde.build.

Tip

This tutorial will use the Ant functionality inside Eclipse and does not require a separate Ant installation. To run PDE/Build outside Eclipse you need to have Ant separately installed (see Apache Ant for details.

This tutorial uses PDE build to create a executable application for an Eclipse RCP project.

Tip

Check also the PDE build help in the Eclipse help under Help -> Help Contents -> Plug-in Development Environment Guide -> Tasks