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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

Why Eclipse 4.x?

The first question that needs to be asked when migrating an application from the Eclipse 3.x APIs is "Why migrate to Eclipse 4.x at all?" If the goal is to provide plug-ins for an Eclipse IDE, then there may be little benefit from migrating existing plug-ins to the new APIs. Under the covers, Eclipse provides a compatibility layer that implements the Eclipse 3.x APIs, which will continue to work for some time; this allows plug-ins developed and tested against previous versions of Eclipse to work as before.

There are significant benefits from a rich client platform perspective; there really is little need to build Eclipse 3.x-based RCP applications any more. Since RCP applications tend to be self-contained units (and often do not support the same extensibility that the IDE does), it should be easy to move over to using it. This can be done piece by piece as the views or other functionality is migrated. The reasons for migrating to the Eclipse 4.x model for plug...

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