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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 product

An Eclipse product is a branding and a reference to an application. The product also has control over what features or plug-ins will be available, and whether those plug-ins will be started or not (and if so, in what order).

Chapter 7, Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model and RCP Applications, created a product to bootstrap the E4 application (provided by the org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt.E4Application class), but this section will create a product that binds to the headless application created previously to demonstrate how the linkage works.

  1. Use File | New | Other | Plug-in Development | Product Configuration to bring up the product wizard.
  2. Select the com.packtpub.e4.headless.application project and put headless as the file name.
  3. Leave the Create a configuration file with the basic settings selected.
  4. Click on Finish and it will open up the headless.product file in an editor.
  5. Fill in the details as follows:
    1. ID: com.packtpub.e4.headless.application.product...
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