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Eclipse Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide. Extend and customize Eclipse - Second Edition

Eclipse Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide. Extend and customize Eclipse - Second Edition

Alex Blewitt

Ebook
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.
  • 1. Creating Your First Plug-in
  • 2. Creating Views with SWT
  • 3. Creating JFace Viewers
  • 4. Interacting with the User
  • 5. Storing Preferences and Settings
  • 6. Working with Resources
  • 7. Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model and RCP applications
  • 8. Migrating views to Eclipse 4 IDE
  • 9. Styling and custom hooks in E4
  • 10. Creating Features Update Sites Applications and Products
  • 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins
  • 12. Automated Builds with Tycho
  • 13. Contributing to Eclipse
  • 14. Appendix A: Using OSGi Services to dynamically wire applications
  • 15. Appendix B: Pop Quiz Answers
  • Title: Eclipse Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide. Extend and customize Eclipse - Second Edition
  • Author: Alex Blewitt
  • Original title: Eclipse Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide. Extend and customize Eclipse - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781785285011, 9781785285011
  • Date of issue: 2016-08-04
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3cy2
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing