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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 6 – Working with Resources


Understanding resources, builders, and markers

1. If an editor complains of a missing document provider, install an instance of TextFileDocumentProvider with the setDocumentProvider() method on the editor.

2. An IResourceProxy is used by a builder to provide a wrapper around an IResource, but which doesn't require the construction of an IResource image.

3. An IPath is a generic file component that is used to navigate files in folders and projects.

4. A nature is a flavor of a project that enables certain behaviors. It is installed with an update to the project descriptor for the given project.

5. Markers are generally created by a builder—though they can be created by any plug-in on a resource. There is a specific function on the resource that can be used to create a marker of a specific type.