System Summary Sections

Identifier:

org.eclipse.ui.systemSummarySections

Since:

3.0

Description:

The Eclipse UI provides an AboutDialog that can be branded and reused by client product plugins. This dialog includes SystemSummary information that contains configuration details. By extending the org.eclipse.ui.systemSummarySections extension point clients are able to put their own information into the log.

Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (section+)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id CDATA #IMPLIED

name CDATA #IMPLIED>

point - a fully qualified identifier of the target extension point
id - an optional identifier of the extension instance
name - an optional name of the extension instance

<!ELEMENT section EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST section

id CDATA #IMPLIED

sectionTitle CDATA #REQUIRED

class CDATA #REQUIRED>

id - an optional, unique name that will be used to identify this system summary section
sectionTitle - a translatable name that will be displayed as the title of this section in the system summary
class - The fully qualified name of a class that implements org.eclipse.ui.about.ISystemSummarySection. The class must provide a default constructor.

Examples:

Following is an example of a systemSummarySections extension:


<extension
 point="org.eclipse.ui.systemSummarySections">
 <section
  id="RCPBrowser.CookieDetails"
  sectionTitle="Browser Cookies"
  class="org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser.CookieConfigDetails"/>
</extension>

API Information:

The class specified in the section element must be a concrete subclass of org.eclipse.ui.about.ISystemSummarySection.

Supplied Implementation:

The Workbench uses this extension point to provide the following sections in the system summary dialog:

System properties: The properties returned by java.lang.System.getProperties().
Features: The installed features.
Plug-in Registry: The installed plug-ins and their status.
User Preferences: The preferences that have been modified from their default values.

Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html/ SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0