Tikal Update Manager (TUM) is a YUM-like graphical user interface that
wraps Eclipse and Callisto-like update sites, adding intuitive
discover/install/update/remove functionality for Eclipse plug-ins,
features, and other bundled packages.
As said above, TUM provides faster, more intuitive, developer-friendly
interface for discovering, installing, upgrading and removing eclipse
plug-ins and other software packages (like JBoss AS runtime, MySQL
runtime, Hibernate, Maven runtime etc.) of the development
environment.
TUM saves you time and effort by eliminating the need to search the
web for the right plug-in, the right version, with the right dependencies,
and then to download and install manually.
Since TUM extends Callisto repository metadata structure, it's easy to
"shop for a plug-in" according to the desired functionality or category.
TUM selects in its initial setup Tikal's enhanced Eclipse Platform rather then the common Eclipse Platform.
We use the Tikal splash screen to distinguish between the two.
You can remove the splash screen
by un-installing the Tikal Eclipse Platform feature patch.
Future versions of TUM will allow you to choose the Eclipse Platform upon initial setup.
Every operation marked for execution by TUM is not carried out
immediately, rather, it is inserted into an ordered queue you can later
process manually.
All install, update and remove operations are aggregated into the queue,
so you can later pick them out one-by-one, as you wish. The Queue also
enables automatic dependency handling, for situations where selected
features require additional features that do not exist in your current
Eclipse environment.
