The main resource and starting point for developing a Eclipse plug-in is the Eclipse Platform Plug-in Developer Guide available in the help of the Eclipse SDK. This guide is specific to the CICS Explorer® SDK and is intended to provide some simple starting points for developing Eclipse plug-ins that use the CICS Explorer functionality.
Assumptions
This guide assumes that you are familiar with Eclipse, and plug-in development, and that the target Eclipse environment for which you are developing is the same as your development environment in which the CICS Explorer SDK is installed.
TipAs an alternative to manually entering the code and executing the steps described in the demonstration, you can import the final demonstration projects included with this guide.
Procedure
To import a demonstration project, perform the following steps:
- The samples are downloaded by clicking the following links. Click the compressed file link, and save the file on your local machine. Each compressed file contains one project that can be imported into the workspace. Do not unpack the files:
- Select File > Import from the Eclipse workbench menu.
- Expand the General tab and click Existing Projects
into Workspace. Click Next.
- Click the Select archive file check box and browse the location
where you saved the compressed demonstration file on your local machine.
- Select the demonstration file you want to import and click Finish.
The project is imported into Eclipse.
You can create a new run configuration to test the plug-in in the CICS Explorer by clicking Window > Preferences > Target Platform, and browsing for the CICS Explorer product that is installed on your computer. That will create a run configuration that will run the product com.ibm.cics.explorer.product
When you run the configuration, CICS Explorer starts with the additional plug-ins included.
