Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development: Build modular applications on Eclipse by defining custom extension points and using OSGi services

Alex Blewitt

Bandlem Limited

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4 (1 Ratings)

eBook Aug 2014 362 pages 1st Edition

Alex Blewitt

Bandlem Limited

€8.99 ~~€32.99~~

4 (1 Ratings)

eBook Aug 2014 362 pages 1st Edition

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Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development shows you how to build an extensible application using custom extension points and dynamic OSGi services in Eclipse. Dynamic design patterns such as whiteboard and extender are covered along with specific techniques to deal with native and legacy code. This book dives right into the details and teaches you how to define new JFace wizards and extend Eclipse with custom extension points. Then the book moves quickly on to the details of how to define new commands for the Eclipse console and how to include native code in a plug-in. You will engage with modular application design patterns and Thread Context ClassLoaders before getting the details on how to create as well as manage P2 sites and write help documentation for an Eclipse plug-in.

What you will learn

Create a custom extension point to allow other plugins to contribute
Employ Declarative Services and Blueprint for dynamic OSGi contributions
Extend the Common Navigator Framework to provide nested content
Build commands to extend the builtin Gogo shell
Use fragments to contribute native code to plugins
Fix code using the service loader and wrap nonOSGifriendly JARs
Discover how to build modular applications with decoupled design patterns

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W Boudville Dec 07, 2014

Hmm. The book came out in August 2014. Strange that no reviews have been posted by now (Dec 2014), so I will try to remedy the situation.Eclipse is perhaps the most common development environment for java programming. Blewitt shows the latest developments in its support for adding plug-ins. A good aspect of the book is that it jumps right in. You are expected to be already using Eclipse and hopefully have written some prior plug-ins.Chapter 2 has a long discussion about how the classpath is used. As a practical matter, complexity and bugs can arise from problems with the elements (jar files) listed in the classpath. This is not restricted to programming with Eclipse. But the chapter delves into the details of, for example, the loading of all extensions via the classpath. To this ends, you might also check out chapter 6, which is a companion description of class loaders. Historically, this was the crucial idea that drove the very successful use of java inside enterprise computing on the Internet in the dot com years. You can now see here what the latest features of the class loader can do for your code.The text also goes into OSGi services and runtime. For dynamically hooking up your executable to existing services.Another useful feature is the Gogo shell and a console view, where the latter comes with Eclipse. Likely, you have run the console to see output from your programs. But the text shows how other consoles can be invoked, with various advantages for each.Throughout the book are many code snippets and examples of running programs from a console or terminal window. Useful guidance.

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