All uploaded profiles are set to private by default. No one but you can see them or download them. To help you decide whether to upload or share your profile (be it with a group or publicly), have look at the contents included in a profile in the table below. It shows what exactly is uploaded to the Profiles Hub and what you share with others if you decide to change your profile's visibility from private to group or public.

If you are looking for a way to host your profiles in a private cloud or on premise, please contact us!

To help you decide whether to share your profile publically, the table below shows what exactly you will share with others when you send your profile out into the world.

Shared	Not Shared
Working sets Plug-Ins (Links to update sites) Servers (like Tomcat and WildFly) added with WST	Plug-ins are not shared if no longer available no update site available
Source code repositories (links): Git SVN CVS Mercurial
Projects (project-metadata and -preferences included in SCM)	Local projects (if not shared in SCM like Git, SVN, etc.)
Task Repositories (Mylyn) (links) Bug Tracker (Bugzilla, Trac … ) Ticket lists including queries (links)	Source code
Build server configuration (Mylyn) Target platform definitions. Preferences (recorded with Preference Recorder) Views / Workspace layout (if enabled)
Eclipse.ini memory settings: Maximum Heap size (-Xmx) Initial Heap size (-Xms) Maximum PermGen Space size (-XX:MaxPermSize)

Yes. When you upload your profile, the visibility will be set to private by default. Once your profile is online, you can change it’s visibility settings.

You have three different visibility options: private, group and public. You can define a group to allow a limited number of people access to your profile, or set visibility to public to make it available to anyone.

Learn more about visibility settings.

Every profile contains a list of links to update sites for the plug-ins used to build your Eclipse installation. Given that your teammates can access the internal update site via the link you share with them, they definitely can install and work with your profile.

Absolutely. If your profile contains a commercial solution that needs some kind of licensing, the license key is not shared with your profile. You will need to insert it when deploying the profile again.

Yes. You can install any profile on Windows, Linux or Mac operating systems. No matter on which operating system they were first authored.

We are also working on profiles for Eclipse-based Cloud IDEs.

Yes. You can define a target platform either in your projects or in the workspace preferences.

Define a target platform as part of your project so that the *.target file is committed to version control alongside your projects. Your target platform will be checked out and activated during workspace setup. In case you have defined a local target platform in the workspace preferences, your profile will contain the full target definition. It will be imported into the workspace preferences and activated during workspace setup.

1. In the Eclipse toolbar, open the the context menu of the Yatta Plug-In.
2. Select Record preferences.

Any preferences you change from now on will be included in your profile's setup information

We are currently working on solutions for enterprise hosting and private sharing. Please contact us for more information.

No, you can export it via the Yatta Plug-In locally and share the file with your team.

To install the profile locally, just drop the exported file onto the Launcher window, or import it via "Create Profile" in the side menu.

Yes, any authored Oomph setup can be imported as a profile. We are already working on importing Oomph setups via the Yatta Launcher for Eclipse. For the time being, please contact us to migrate and upload your Oomph file.

Some content-filtering firewalls don't allow the download of certain files like executables. This might cause your profile installations to fail.

We are currently working on solutions for on-premise enterprise hosting options. Please contact us for more information.

You can also ask your network administrators to white-list the following URLs:

• http://cdn.yatta.de/update/profiles/yatta-eclipse-launcher-*
• http://cdn.yatta.de/eclipse-mirror/releases/*/*/binary/*
• http://cdn.yatta.de/eclipse-mirror/eclipse/updates/*/*/binary/*
• http://cdn.yatta.de/eclipse-mirror/technology/epp/packages/*/binary/*

This will help with the installation of most profiles, although some might still fail if they require executables from 3rd-party sites. Contact us if you need to assemble a whitelist for your profile.

Yes. Profiles is free and always will be. Why? Because we work with Eclipse ourselves every day, and because our own software products are based on Eclipse. We think Eclipse and the Eclipse community are great. We built Profiles to improve ergonomics and usability of Eclipse when it comes to installation and distribution. Profiles is our contribution to making Eclipse an even better IDE.

Profiles is based on the Oomph framework, which means that at least some parts of Profiles are already open source (e.g. the Oomph Eclipse Installer’s UI). Parts of Profiles will, however, remain closed source.

There are two reasons for this: First, we’d like to make it as easy as possible for you to find what you are looking for. A scenario where dozens of different websites host hundreds of different profiles goes against the initial idea behind Profiles: to keep the community together and strengthen its’ centripetal force. That’s why we hope you will help us turn the Profiles Hub into a place for the community - by the community.

Second, if Profiles was to get open-sourced, we believe Profiles and the Profiles Hub should be hosted at eclipse.org. We are trying to find a solution with the Eclipse Foundation. If there is a possibility to host Profiles at eclipse.org and to integrate the Profiles Hub into the Eclipse Marketplace website, the complete Profiles UI – including the Profiles Launcher – could in fact become open source.

No, not necessarily. You can install profiles or use the Launcher without registration (e.g. students installing a profile for their class or similar).

You do have to create an account if you want to upload and / or share a profile to the Profiles Hub, or if you want to access a group profile. If you upload a profile to the Profiles Hub you may want to update or delete it afterwards. Without an account linked to your profiles, you wouldn't be able to do that. If you want to access a group profile, the profile author needs to authorize you first. Without an account, it would be hard to determine if you are allowed to access a profile.

Learn more about uploading and sharing .

No. Your profile does not contain any user credentials or passwords. Learn more about what data a profile contains.

For the moment, please send an email to profiles@yatta.de . We will make the changes for you.

We are working on a number of community features to create more possibilities to make the Profiles Hub a real community platform driven by Eclipse developers. As this is a work in progress, your account only consists of a username and an email address. In the future we will provide you with more features, like links to your homepage, project or corporate website, a system for commenting and rating profiles, personal notifications and many others.

For the moment, please send an email to profiles@yatta.de . We will delete your account for you.

Before you leave: Profiles is a free project for the community. We are actively working on improving the Eclipse IDE. Tell us what you think and help making Eclipse an even better IDE.

When you visit our websites, the webserver stores certain data in log files, for example the times when you start and cease visiting our websites or the subpages you called up.

Furthermore, our website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies (text files which are placed on your computer). For more information on log files and cookies, please refer to our Privacy Policy , specifically sections:

2.2 Provision of “Yatta Profiles”

2.4 Use of our website

2.5 Google Analytics and Cookies

Usually, proxy detection works automatically. If this isn’t the case and you’re unable to install an Eclipse profile, you can configure the proxy manually in the Launcher Settings.

1. Open the Launcher's side menu and choose Edit Launcher Settings .
2. Go to Edit Proxy Settings .
3. Activate Manual Configuration.
4. Enter proxy information and your credentials.
5. Save your changes.

That's it. You're ready to install your first profile.

Try checking your Java Version. Please install JRE 1.7 or above. Also check if you have the right version for your operating system installed (32bit or 64bit).

If the problem persist, please contact our support.

If the Launcher does not detect all of your profiles, try to manually install the Yatta Plug-In into Eclipse via the Eclipse Marketplace. You can also create a profile manually .

When you first start the Launcher, you will see a small download bar saying Downloading Eclipse setup tools. The Eclipse setup tools are important during the installation process of a profile: Whenever you install a profile, you also download Eclipse. The Eclipse setup tools are responsible for the actual provisioning of your Eclipse installation – meaning they make the installation work automatically. Every once in a while the Eclipse setup tools will get an update, and you will see the same download bar again. (The files make up for roughly 50 MB.)

The exporter plug-in (or Yatta Plug-In) is necessary to export your profile's setup data so you can share it and push updates. Due to incompatibilities with existing plug-ins, the exporter plug-in sometimes fails to install when you launch a local profile for the first time.

To resolve the issue, try to install the plug-in manually from the Eclipse Marketplace.

Open the main menu and select Edit Launcher Settings. Select Uninstall the Launcher.

Uninstalling will remove all files associated with the Launcher - but your Eclipse installations or workspaces won't be affected by uninstalling the Launcher. They will remain in their installation directory. The Yatta Plug-In will remain in the Eclipse toolbar. You can remove it separately like any other Eclipse plug-in.

To uninstall the Launcher follow the steps listed below.

If you have never changed the default installation directory, you can find your Eclipse installations here:

Windows:

%localappdata%\Yatta\Launcher\installations

Linux:

/home/USER/.local/share/Yatta/Launcher

Mac:

/Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Yatta/Launcher

There are two ways to resize the Launcher window:

• Hover the mouse over any edge of the window until the pointer changes to a ⇿ symbol, then left click and drag the mouse either inwards or outwards.
• Alternatively, hold the CTRL key and press either + or - to incrementally increase or reduce the window size.