Run as Eclipse Application

Question

I am following an Eclipse Modeling Framework tutorial (and also this one). At one of the steps, I need to run a project (the .editor project according to the tutorial) by right clicking on it and selecting Run As -> Eclipse Application. But there is no such item in my eclipse!. I can only see "Java Application" and "Java Applet" in Run sub-menu.

(I am using eclipse-java-kepler-R-win32-x86_64.)

Answer 1

I installed Eclipse Plugin Development Tools (from Help -> Install New Software...) and now, Can run as Eclipse application :)

Running as Eclipse application starts a new instance of Eclipse with the plugin projects installed (the generated projects in my case). So, it takes a lot of memory and can slow down the system. You can export the projects as a plugin for a better performance. you can use lots of available tutorials like this vogella tutorial for Eclipse plug-in development.