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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783980697
Length 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First Plug-in 2. Creating Views with SWT FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating JFace Viewers 4. Interacting with the User 5. Working with Preferences 6. Working with Resources 7. Creating Eclipse 4 Applications 8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x 9. Styling Eclipse 4 Applications 10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins 12. Automated Builds with Tycho 13. Contributing to Eclipse A. Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications B. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating a feature

A feature project is used in Eclipse to create, test, and export features. Features are used to group many plug-ins together into a coherent unit. For example, the JDT feature consists of 25 separate plug-ins. Features are also used in the construction of update sites, which are covered later in this chapter.

  1. Create a feature project by going to File | New | Project... and then selecting Feature Project.
  2. Name the project com.packtpub.e4.feature, which will also be used as the default name for the Feature ID. As with plug-ins, they are named in reverse domain name format, though typically they end with feature to distinguish them from the plug-in that they represent. The version number defaults to 1.0.0.qualifier. The feature name is used for the text name shown to the user when it's installed, and will default to the last segment of the project name:
    Time for action – creating a feature
  3. Click on Next and it will prompt to choose plug-ins. Choose com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui from the...
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