I've proposed a tutorial for EclipseCon 2006 dealing with the problems of automated builds and plugins. It will look at three different ways of solving the problem:

• Using Eclipse's PDE tools to do a headless build
• Using a series of Ant files to do the work
• Using maven to manage and build the process

If you're interested in seeing this, head over to the proposal page and add your thoughts, or add comments here.