The plugin allows using Autojar's capabilities in an Eclipse project environment. It needs Ecplise 3.2.x or better. All options and parameters can be entered interactively through a wizard. The plugin combines these settings into a "configuration". Configurations are independent of specific Eclipse projects and are saved in the file autojar.config in the user's home directory. Configurations may be created, copied, edited, and deleted freely. To recreate an output archive, selecting the correspondig configuration and clicking on "Finish" is sufficient.

To install the plugin, unzip the file autojar-plugin.zip in the Eclipse installation directory. This will add the file org.sourceforge.autojar.plugin_version to the plugin subdirectory.

With the next start of Eclipse, the plugin should be available. If it is not, start Eclipse with parameter -clean once.

To open Eclipse help, choose Help / Help Contents from the main menu. The help page is displayed in the browser. On the left side you'll see an item "Autojar help", including some sub-items. Choose "Plugin" to get a step-by-step instruction about creating an Autojar configuration.