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# Export your Plug-in to AWB

Runtime-Export: Export an Eclipse Plug-in to an AWB project

## Export the Plug-in

This tutorial shows you how to include and use your plug-ins (OSGI bundels) in an Agent.Workbench - project outside of the Eclipse IDE. This will allow you to start an AWB-project from an AWB-installation that uses your agents or your application extensions. This is done by exporting the Eclipse plug-in into a projects subdirectory (e.g. *./myProject/plugins*). Opening a project, Agent.Workbench will search in the project directory for OSGI-bundles and will load them automatically.

In your Eclipse IDE, right-click the Eclipse project you want to export and choose *Export*.

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Under *Plug-in Development* choose *Deployable plug-ins and fragments*, then click *Next*.

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Now select the plug-in and specify the directory you want to export to. Note, when exporting to a directory, the plug-ins will be placed in a *plugins/* subdirectory of the chosen directory. As the directory, simply choose your Agent.Workbench project-folder, even it contains a *plugins/* subdirectory already.

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As a last step, go to the *Options* tab. Select the checkbox "*use class files compiled in the workspace".* Then click *Finish*.

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## Check if the export was successful

To check if the export was successful, open (or re-open) your AWB-project and go to the *Resources* tab in the project window.

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Your plug-in should appear in the list of *Project OSGI-Bundles*. If it does, the export was successful.

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