As you develop a pattern in a pattern project in your workspace, that pattern is automatically available to be applied to an appropriate Eclipse resource. If you want to quickly deploy that pattern to other users (or other workspaces) you can export the pattern to a patzip file.
A patzip file is a zip file that contains all of the templates for a pattern as well as a .pattern file that hold metadata for the pattern. A popup action (in the resources perspective) on pattern projects will create a patzip file from the project's contents.
Once the patzip file has been created, you can send the file by any means to other developers for immediate use (see Using Exported Patterns).
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