How to enable the Eclipse "Update Manager UI" in Notes 8

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For those of you writing new plugins for Notes 8 Standard, here is the one way to install your plugin into the runtime environment:

First enable the standard Eclipse Update Manager UI, which allows you to input the URL for any Update site.

Here is how to enable the Update manager UI:

To install Eclipse features in hannover you must first enable the update/install UI using this preference:

Edit <install_dir>/framework/rcp/plugin_customization.ini and add the following entry:

com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true

Once this is done, you can access the Update Manager UI from the " Application->Install " menu…

Jay R.
IBM Software Group
Lotus Software
Notes Client Infrastructure and Security
Workplace Portal and Collaboration(WPLC)

“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own” - Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia

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Subject: enabling the Eclipse Update Manager UI

I attemtped to enable the Eclispe Update Manager UI via the plugin_customization.ini file without sucess … I entered this argument verbatim:

com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true

restarted the 8.0 standard client and the Install option was not found under File \ Application menu option …

it simply did not work with the above ini entry.

On the other hand, enabling the Eclipse Update Manger UI via the Desktop Settings policy document works just fine …

Ideas anybody why this ini entry failed?