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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

Chapter 8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x

In the last chapter, we looked at the way Eclipse 4 RCP applications are built. We'll now look at how to migrate an existing solution based on Eclipse 3.x APIs to Eclipse 4.x, and the pros and cons of migrating to the new infrastructure.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Migrate an existing Eclipse 3.x view to an Eclipse 4.x view using the e4view extension

  • Replace deprecated Action classes with generic classes

  • Create code to show a toolbar, view menu, and pop-up menu

  • Create an e4xmi fragment to migrate to Eclipse 4.x models

  • Define commands, handlers, toolbars, view menus, and pop-up menus in the model

  • Do forward selection between Eclipse 3.x views and Eclipse 4.x parts