Feature the eclipse term for bundle of Plug-ins you can "download" (and manage) to aquire a new capabilites.

It amounts to a bundle of Plug-ins (and Plug-in Fragments) and a xml file that describes enough metadata (like version information) that the Software Update wizard can latch onto and work magic with.

Eclipse Features follow a format set by the Eclipse Framework.

Naming of Feature Projects

Features do not appear to have a strict naming convention. At this time our published Feature names are uDig, uDig.Libs and uDig.Eclipse.

Links:

• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Update/keeping-up-to-date.html
• http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/html/plugins/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/doc/reference/misc/naming.html