Loading Eclipse plug-ins from source .jar without project file

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Published on 2010-04-27T14:19:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 14:23 UTC
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I have a number of plug-ins meant for the OSGi framework. They have been bundled in individual .jars containing the source .java files as well as the needed MANIFEST.MF and plugin.properties files.

The problem is, I wish to edit these. What is the best/easiest way to import them as plug-ins into Eclipse so that I can continue as if I had been handed an eclipse project with source files (instead of the .jar files).

For those interested, the files can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/domoticdog/files/ (Dog2.0.8_source).

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