INSTALLING
You can customize the Notes® install kit relative to supplied Eclipse features.
While you continue to have the ability to customize Notes install using tuner capabilities, the addition of Eclipse features and plug-ins has broadened your Notes install capabilities.
When customizing the Notes install kit, you work primarily in two directories, deploy and updateSite, in the supplied Notes install kit. The updateSite directory is supplied in zipped form.
Note: See the related topics for instructions on customizing the Notes install kit.
You can optionally edit the install manifest (install.xml) to specify how features, such as the Composite Applications Editor, appear on the Notes feature installation panel. For example, a feature can appear selected for install by default or not. You can also edit the install manifest to remove features from the installation panel, either to force installation or prevent that feature from being selected during install. You can also optionally remove a feature from the installation kit itself. Finally, you can customize installation to add custom or third-party features by editing the install manifest to add features for Notes install, adding related feature and plug-in JAR files to the correct features and plugins subdirectories in a customized update site, and updating the site manifest to correctly list the features in a customized update site.
The Notes installation kit's deploy directory includes the following:
You can customize the install manifest to specify which features to install. You can use the install manifest to allow the user to choose installation of a given feature. You can also specify features to install, update, or remove after the initial Notes installation.
The install manifest uses Eclipse standards, but is a file unique to the Notes installation. An installfeature attribute reflects the feature name users see on the Notes feature installation panel. Lower-level feature statements are grouped together at a level subordinate to the higher-orderinstallfeature attribute.
The zipped updateSite directory includes the following:
-- site.xml -- This is a registry of the features to expose for install. The site registry lists the Eclipse features available for install. It uses a unique Document Type Definition (DTD) or set of XML file conventions.
-- features subdirectory -- This contains the (signed) feature JAR files. Features are used to organize plug-ins.
-- plugins subdirectory -- This contains the (signed) plug-in JAR files. Plug-ins hold runtime code.
By default, the following features are included on the Notes features installation panel. You can suppress their display, and establish installation program defaults, using the install manifest and optionally the install .MSI file.
Parent topic: Customizing Notes install for features and plug-ins on Windows and Mac
Related concepts Understanding the Eclipse update site Customizing the Notes install manifest for supplied Eclipse features Customizing the Notes install manifest for new or third-party Eclipse features Customizing Notes using plugin_customization.ini
Related tasks Customizing Notes install for features and plug-ins on Windows and Mac Signing custom or third-party features and plug-ins for install and update Adding and removing components from the Notes install kit using UpdateSiteMgr
Related reference Reducing Notes install kit size