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Building Eclipse plug-ins using templates

Christopher Judd (cjudd@juddsolutions.com), Freelance Writer, Judd Solutions, LLC
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC, international speaker, open source evangelist, Central Ohio Java Users Group coordinator, and co-author of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget and Pro Eclipse JST. He has spent eight years developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation industries. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, J2EE, J2ME, Web services and related technologies.

Summary:  You may know that Eclipse is a framework meant for building other tools. You may also know that you can build your own plug-ins for Eclipse. But did you know that Eclipse comes with seven plug-in templates to get you started? This tutorial gives you a start-to-finish look at building a plug-in using the Hello World template, then introduces you to the other templates.

Date:  28 Jun 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1317 KB | 74 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial just scratched the surface of Eclipse plug-in development. It demonstrated how to create, test, debug, and package a basic plug-in. Then it showed how to start developing your own plug-ins using the seven plug-in templates as a starting point:

  • Hello World
  • Popup Menu
  • Property Page
  • View
  • Perspective Extension
  • Editor
  • Multi-page Editor

You should now have a good understanding of how to take advantage of the plug-in templates in Eclipse to reduce the coding and learning curve of generating your own custom plug-ins.

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