Installing a plain plugin jar in Eclipse 3.5

Question

Since Eclipse 3.5 there seems to be no option to have drop a plugin jar ( not a feature ) in the Eclipse base directory and have it picked up at next startup.

Is the

Answer 1

Since the advent of p2, you should be using the dropins directory instead.

To be completely clear create "plugins" under "/dropins" and make sure to restart eclipse with the "-clean" option.