Browsing and Modifying Archive Structure

You can navigate archives in the Archives Browser either by opening them from the Navigator or by using the integration with the Eclipse File System. For the EFS (Eclipse File System) integration you must right click the archive in the Navigator and choose Expand Zip Archive. All the standard Eclipse Navigator actions are available on the mounted archive. If you decide to close the archive you can use the Collapse ZIP Archive action located in the contextual menu for the expanded archive. Any file opened from the archive expanded in the EFS will be closed when the archive in unmounted.

Attention: The ZIP support needs the IBM437 character set to be properly installed in the Java Runtime Environment in order to be able to navigate / open ZIP archives. If you encounter an error message when expanding a ZIP archive about the JVM that is missing a charset then the JVM used to run Eclipse does not have the character set library properly installed.

If you open an archive as an Eclipse editor, the archive will be unmounted when the editor is closed.

Important: If a file is not recognized by Oxygen XML Author plugin as a supported archive type, you can add it from the Archive preferences page.

Browsing an Archive

The following operations are available on the Archive Browser toolbar:

The following additional operations are available from the Archive Browser contextual menu: