Upgrade your Eclipse to Photon

Don’t setup everything from scratch, just upgrade your existing Eclipse configuration

Since the end of June 2018 Eclipse Photon is out, and it has brought us awesome performance improvements and some great new features. If you want to deep dive into the new and noteworthy of the Eclipse Photon Release, follow one of these links

In the past you had to download the new Eclipse version from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and painstakingly recreate your installation by hunting down the right update sites for all your additional plug-ins and then installing them all again one by one, hoping that the upgrade would work with your workspace without breaking anything.

Upgrade

To skip all this monkey work you can use your Eclipse as a Profile and upload it to the profiles hub.

Upload your Eclipse profile to the hub

Once the profile is uploaded, just trigger Upgrade to Eclipse Photon and install your upgraded profile afterwards.

Your whole setup (including Repositories, Projects, WorkingSets, Servers plug-ins, Preferences, WorkbenchLaout, …) will be upgraded to the newest Eclipse version. And if you choose, you can even have it as a complete separate copy, keeping your old Eclipse and workspace unchanged and safe while you check out the new release’s features.

Upgrade your Eclipse to Eclipse Photon

Requirements

Your Eclipse release must be Mars, Neon or Oxygen.

Install Eclipse Profiles

The easiest way to install Eclipse Profiles is by downloading the Eclipse Launcher from https://www.yatta.de/profiles/download and starting your Eclipse with the Launcher; or install the Profiles plug-in from https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/yatta-profiles directly into your Eclipse.

Find out more at https://www.yatta.de/profiles/help and get in touch with us at profiles@yatta.de or @YattaSolutions.