Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide

<p><b>In Detail</b></p><p>As a highly extensible platform, Eclipse is used by everyone from independent software developers to NASA. Key to this is Eclipse€s plug-in ecosystem, which allows applications to be developed in a modular architecture and extended through its use of plug-ins and features.</p><p>"Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide" takes the reader through the full journey of plug-in development, starting with an introduction to Eclipse plug-ins, continued through packaging and culminating in automated testing and deployment. The example code provides simple snippets which can be developed and extended to get you going quickly.</p><p>This book covers basics of plug-in development, creating user interfaces with both SWT and JFace, and interacting with the user and execution of long-running tasks in the background.</p><p>Example-based tasks such as creating and working with preferences and advanced tasks such as well as working with Eclipse€s files and resources. A specific chapter on the differences between Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x presents a detailed view of the changes needed by applications and plug-ins upgrading to the new model. Finally, the book concludes on how to package plug-ins into update sites, and build and test them automatically.</p><p><b>Approach</b></p><p>A Beginner's Guide following the "by Example" approach. There will be 5-8 major examples that will be used in the book to develop advanced plugins with the Eclipse IDE.</p><p><b>Who this book is for</b></p><p>This book is for Java developers who are familiar with Eclipse as a Java IDE and are interested in learning how to develop plug-ins for Eclipse. No prior knowledge of Eclipse plug-in development or OSGi is necessary, although you are expected to know how to create, run, and debug Java programs in Eclipse.</p>