Eclipse caches Jars

For some time I had this impression that sometimes just copying over stuff to the plugins folder doesn’t necessarily do the trick. So today I found out that there is a cache of jars in eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles. It seems like this is updated when doing an installation from an update site. At some point I have got to find out how this really works…


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  1. Ketan Padegaonkar Avatar

    The cache is used to speed up the startup time by caching the registry (and not the jars as you mention).

    In case you installed/updates/removed plugins — just start eclipse with -clean argument. That would flush the cache, and recreate it again.

    Moreover the folder you mention contains stuff used by OSGi, and not eclipse itself 🙂

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