title: Deploying a newly developed Eclipse Plugin
body: <p>I have written an Eclpise plugin (an Error Parser for the CDT), and it works just fine in the debugger version of eclipse.  However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install the plugin into eclipse.  I can export the plugin as a jar file, and it seems to export without errors.  I put the plugin jar file into eclipse\dropins and it is not loaded by eclipse.  If I add it to the plugins directory, no luck.  The features directory also seems to ignore my plugin.</p>
  
  <p>So I thought, OK, I'll try installing it through the GUI.  So I browse to where the plugin archive is and add it as a local update site, but eclipse complains there is no plugin there.</p>
  
  <p>I'm frustrated.  Please help.</p>