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The software folder contains the third party tools for your IDE such as maven, npm, java, dotnet, etc. However, IDEasy only maintains symbolic links here that point to a local Repository.

Repository

Technically we "install" (extract) all tools into a local repository (in $IDE_ROOT/_ide/software) and just place symbolic links to such physical tool version inside the local repository. This has the following benefits:

  • Switching a tool version forth and back is lightning fast since only a symbolic link needs to be updated.

  • We avoid severe issues with Windows file-locking.

  • Multiple IDEasy projects can share the same physical tool versions to save disc-space. However, we keep previous tool version on updates what can also waste disc-space. Therefore, you can run ide cleanup to find and release old tool versions and free disc-space.

Custom Tools

In some cases, a project might need a (proprietary) tools that are not directly supported by IDEasy. As a solution for this need, IDEasy let’s you configure custom tools via settings/ide-custom-tools.json. The following example illustrates how to configure custom tools:

{
  "url": "https://some-file-server.company.com/projects/my-project",
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "jboss-eap",
      "version": "7.1.4.GA",
      "os-agnostic": true,
      "arch-agnostic": true
    },
    {
      "name": "firefox",
      "version": "70.0.1",
      "os-agnostic": false,
      "arch-agnostic": false
    }
  ]
}

This will download and extract the following content to your software folder:

Please note that if you are not using windows, the -windows suffix will be -mac or -linux and instead of x64 you could get arm (e.g. for Mac M1+ CPU).