title: Portable Eclipse Juno with plugins
body: <p>I am currently trying to make an Eclipse istallation with installed plugins portable, so that you only have to copy the whole "eclipse"-folder to another system and have the same setup as on the original system.</p>
  
  <p>My problem now is, that since eclipse 4.2 (?) when using <b>Help > Install new Software...</b> plugins are installed externally into the folder<br>
  <code>C:/Users/<i>Username</i>/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.0_<i>identifier</i></code><br>
  and not into the folder where the "eclipse.exe" is located:<br>
  <code>C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse</code></p>
  
  <p>Now my question is if it is possible to make eclipse install additional plugins into the plugins/features-folder of eclipse's home folder (<code>C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse</code>).</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, it isn't possible to use the dropins-folder, because one plugin that shall be installed only exists as an update site.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using<br>
  Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 64bit<br>
  with<br>
  Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers<br>
  Version: Juno Service Release 2<br>
  32-bit (to provide portability).</p>
  
  <p>Greets :)</p>