exporting installed plugins from eclipse to another

Question

How to export installed plugins from eclipse?

I want to use some of my installed plugins in another eclipse machine.

I don\'t want to download those again.

Answer 1

You can export the list of the features and plugins by going to File->Export->Install.

Answer 2

P2 (the bundle provisioning system) provides functionalities for shared bundle pooling, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Getting_Started#Bundle_pooling

Answer 3

Along with update sites, p2 can treat existing Eclipse installations as a source for the plugins to be installed.

If you access the Eclipse folder in another machine (which has the plugins installed) via shared folder in the network , then in your new Eclipse, open Preferences->Install/Update->Available Software Sites->Add->Local-> browse to the Eclipse->p2->org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine->profileRegistry and select the profile.

Now in the target Eclipse you can install those plugins as if you are installing from an update site.