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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Alex Blewitt
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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Eclipse is used by everyone from indie devs to NASA engineers. Its popularity is underpinned by its impressive plug-in ecosystem, which allows it to be extended to meet the needs of whoever is using it. This book shows you how to take full advantage of the Eclipse IDE by building your own useful plug-ins from start to finish. Taking you through the complete process of plug-in development, from packaging to automated testing and deployment, this book is a direct route to quicker, cleaner Java development. It may be for beginners, but we're confident that you'll develop new skills quickly. Pretty soon you'll feel like an expert, in complete control of your IDE. Don't let Eclipse define you - extend it with the plug-ins you need today for smarter, happier, and more effective development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – branding features


Features generally don't show up in the About dialog of Eclipse, as there is only space for a handful of features to show there. Only top-level features which have branding information associated with them are shown in the dialog.

  1. Go to Help | About (or Eclipse | About Eclipse on macOS) and there will be a number of icons present, consisting of the top-level branded features that have been installed. These features have an associated branding plug-in, which contains a file called about.ini that supplies the information:

  2. First, set up an association between the feature and its branding plug-in, by re-using the com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui plug-in from before. Open the feature.xml file, go to the Overview tab, and add the name of the branding plug-in as com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui:

  3. Now, create a file in the com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui plug-in called about.ini with the following content:

    featureImage=icons/sample.gif
    aboutText=\
    Clock UI plug-in\n\
    \n\
    Example of how to...