Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example : Beginner's Guide
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Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example : Beginner's Guide
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Overview of this book
<p>As a highly extensible platform, Eclipse is used by everyone from independent software developers to NASA. Key to this is Eclipse’s plug-in ecosystem, which allows applications to be developed in a modular architecture and extended through its use of plug-ins and features.<br /><br />"Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide" takes the reader through the full journey of plug-in development, starting with an introduction to Eclipse plug-ins, continued through packaging and culminating in automated testing and deployment. The example code provides simple snippets which can be developed and extended to get you going quickly.</p>
<p>This book covers basics of plug-in development, creating user interfaces with both SWT and JFace, and interacting with the user and execution of long-running tasks in the background.</p>
<p>Example-based tasks such as creating and working with preferences and advanced tasks such as well as working with Eclipse’s files and resources. A specific chapter on the differences between Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x presents a detailed view of the changes needed by applications and plug-ins upgrading to the new model. Finally, the book concludes on how to package plug-ins into update sites, and build and test them automatically.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Creating Your First Plug-in
Creating Views with SWT
Creating JFace Viewers
Interacting with the User
Storing Preferences and Settings
Working with Resources
Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model
Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products
Automated Testing of Plug-ins
Automated Builds with Tycho
Pop Quiz Answers
Index
Customer Reviews