This is the JDeveloper extension drop-in directory. To easily add a new OSGi bundle to JDeveloper, simply place the relevant JAR in this directory. It will be picked up automatically next time you start JDeveloper. If multiple bundles with the same name are present in various dropins directories and/or the main JDeveloper distribution, the bundles will be picked up in the following order of preference: 1. extension-dt dropins 2. jdeveloper/dropins directory (if not explicitly specified via ide.bundle.search.path) 3. ide.bundle.search.path property entries (in the order specified) 4. check-for-updates dropins 5. core bundles included in JDeveloper Please note that a reference to the jdeveloper/dropins directory can be included in the ide.bundle.search.path property, in which case it will not automatically be preferred over the rest of the user-specified dropins directories.