Small example which builds the org.eclipse.jdt.core plug-in from the command line using a PDE Build mechanism. To run the example: 1. Install eclipse, build 3.1M7 or later 2. Check out the "scripts" directory from platform-releng-home/examples/build_jdtcore i.e. cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse co -d scripts platform-releng-home/examples/build_jdtcore/scripts 3. To run build: -cd to /plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.1.0/scripts -execute: java -jar /startup.jar -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -f build.xml -Dbuilder= 4. Result from build "a.feature-build.zip" should be located in "scripts/src/I.build"