Eclipse Equinox ECF Unpack *pack.gz

If you downloading Eclipse ECF as a ZIP file, the plugins folder in the ZIP contains pack200 compressed JAR files. The pack200 compressed files ends with *.pack.gz. The ECF ZIP distribution contains the same content like a normal Eclipse P2 update site.

If you like to use Eclipse Equinix ECF bundles without P2 or Eclipse you must unpack the pack200 OSGi bundels. For that eclipse provides a tool called "org.eclipse.equinox.p2.jarprocessor". Here a small bash script to show how to extract the OSGi bundles from the pack200 files.

	for file in *.gz; do
	${JAVA_HOME}/java -jar ${ECLIPSE_HOME}/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.jarprocessor_1.0.200.v20110502-1955.jar -unpack "${file}";
	done

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Links

• Eclipse Pack200 Documentation - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Pack200
• Eclipse ECF Download Page - http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php