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Eclipse Plug-ins: A Comprehensive Guide for Eclipse Developers
Eclipse is a powerful open source platform for creating extensible integrated tools and rich client applications of all kinds. Using plug-ins, anyone can build tools that integrate seamlessly with the Eclipse environment and leverage its immense power. However, developing plug-ins can be challenging and requires a good understanding of the Eclipse architecture, APIs, and best practices.
If you are looking for a comprehensive guide to Eclipse plug-in development, you may want to check out the book Eclipse Plug-ins by Eric Clayberg, Dan Rubel, and Jaime Wren[^4^] [^1^]. This book introduces and illuminates the entire process of plug-in development, presenting all best practices needed to achieve high-quality results. It covers the entire plug-in development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and deployment.
The book has been fully revised to reflect the latest features and capabilities of Eclipse 4.0, a milestone release that introduced significant changes to the Eclipse platform. The authors have substantially revised more than 80% of their content, revamped and retested all sample code to reflect Eclipse 4.0 API and modern Java syntax, and completely reworked their popular Favorites View case study to reflect today's most effective techniques.
The book provides detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, such as:
Creating user interfaces with SWT, JFace, and e4
Working with commands, handlers, menus, toolbars, perspectives, and editors
Using extension points and extensions to extend the Eclipse functionality
Building plug-ins with OSGi bundles and PDE tools
Using GEF to create graphical editors and views
Testing plug-ins with JUnit and SWTBot
Deploying plug-ins with features, update sites, and p2 repositories
The book also contains cookbook-style code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, screen shots, tips, tricks, and more. It is suitable for Eclipse developers at all levels of experience, from beginners to experts. Whether you want to create your own plug-ins or understand how existing plug-ins work, this book will help you master the art and science of Eclipse plug-in development.One of the main strengths of Eclipse is its extensibility. Eclipse provides a rich set of extension points and extensions that allow plug-in developers to contribute new functionality to the platform and to other plug-ins. Extension points are well-defined interfaces that specify the contract between the plug-in that provides the extension point and the plug-ins that extend it. Extensions are implementations of the extension point interface that provide the actual functionality. For example, the org.eclipse.ui.views extension point allows plug-ins to contribute new views to the Eclipse workbench, and the org.eclipse.ui.editors extension point allows plug-ins to contribute new editors.
Another key concept in Eclipse plug-in development is the OSGi bundle. An OSGi bundle is a modular unit of code that can be deployed, started, stopped, updated, and uninstalled without affecting other bundles. A bundle can declare dependencies on other bundles, export packages for other bundles to use, and register services for other bundles to consume. Every Eclipse plug-in is an OSGi bundle, but not every OSGi bundle is an Eclipse plug-in. A plug-in is a bundle that has a special manifest file (plugin.xml) that declares its extension points and extensions.
To create and manage Eclipse plug-ins, you need to use the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) tools. PDE provides wizards, editors, validators, builders, launchers, debuggers, and testers for developing plug-ins. PDE also helps you create features and update sites for deploying your plug-ins. A feature is a group of plug-ins and/or other features that can be installed or uninstalled as a unit. An update site is a web site that hosts features and plug-ins for distribution. PDE supports p2, the Eclipse provisioning system that handles the installation and update of Eclipse software. aa16f39245