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

By : Alex Blewitt
Book Image

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 – migrating the commands and handlers


Menu items are typically decoupled from the code that is executed to promote flexibility and re-use. In both Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x, commands are used to represent logical operations whilst handlers are used to execute the code. In order to create menus, the handlers and commands must be defined in the fragment.

  1. Open the fragment.e4xmi file and go to the Model Fragments element in the tree. Click on Add to add a new Model Fragment, and then use org.eclipse.e4.legacy.ide.application as the Extended Element ID and commands as the Feature Name.

  2. Select Command from the drop-down menu and click on Add to add new commands. Create a command with the ID com.packtpub.e4.migration.command.one and a Name of Action 1; then do the same with com.packtpub.e4.migration.command.two and com.packtpub.e4.migration.command.double. It should now look like:

  3. Click on Model Fragments and then Add to create a new Model Fragment, this time using a Feature Name...