You don't need 'a' zip tool on the command line or 'a' cvs client, but the exact same zip tool and cvs client as specified by the Eclipse PDE build guidelines. So I think we should collectively booh the Eclipse PDE team on this one indeed... Nevertheless, I have some good news that Tom will like a lot. I have worked my way around the requirement to checkout the plugin and feature projects during the Eclipse build. If you checkout the entire jbpm.3 tree and invoke the build.xml in the build project, no cvs checkout will happen during the GPD build. So it becomes faster and faster. What currently takes most of the time is the Eclipse installation. I will see what I can do to work around this too so that it only happens when the Eclipse configuration has changed. Regards, Koen View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960482#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...