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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 – installing E4 tooling


To work with Eclipse 4 application models, it is necessary to install the E4 tools to allow the application XML to be edited through an editor. These are not shipped with all the Eclipse packages, and must be installed separately.

  1. Add the following update site by going to the Preferences menu (from the Eclipse menu on macOS or the Window menu on other operating systems), followed by navigating to Install/Update | Available Software Sites, then clicking on Add..., and entering http://download.eclipse.org/e4/updates/0.17.

    Note

    Some of the E4 tools are available in the Eclipse Mars update site, but not all of them. There may be updates available or additional releases of the E4 tools site; check out http://download.eclipse.org/e4/updates/ and look at the directory contents to find a later release for later versions of Eclipse.

  2. Click on OK on the Add Site dialog and OK on the Preferences page to add it. Once added, navigate to the Help | Install New Software...