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A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0321553462 ISBN-13: 9780321553461     "I'm often asked, 'What are the best books about Eclipse?' Number one on my list, every time, is Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins. I find it to be the clearest and most relevant book about Eclipse for the real-world software developer. Other Eclipse books focus on the internal Eclipse architecture or on repeating the Eclipse documentation, whereas this book is laser focused on the issues and concepts that matter when you're trying to build a product." -- Bjorn Freeman-Benson Director, Open Source Process, Eclipse Foundation "As the title suggests, this massive tome is intended as a guide to best practices for writing Eclipse plug-ins. I think in that respect it succeeds handily. Before you even think about distributing a plug-in you've written, read this book." -- Ernest Friedman-Hill Sheriff, JavaRanch.com "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins was an invaluable training aid for all of our team members. In fact, training our team without the use of this book as a base would have been virtually impossible. It is now required reading for all our developers and helped us deliver a brand-new, very complex product on time and on budget thanks to the great job this book does of explaining the process of building plug-ins for Eclipse." -- Bruce Gruenbaum "This is easily one of the most useful books I own. If you are new to developing Eclipse plug-ins, it is a 'must-have' that will save you lots of time and effort. You will find lots of good advice in here, especially things that will help add a whole layer of professionalism and completeness to any plug-in. The book is very focused, well-structured, thorough, clearly written, and doesn't contain a single page of 'waffly page filler.' The diagrams explaining the relationships between the different components and manifest sections are excellent and aid in understanding how everything fits together. This book goes well beyond Actions, Views, and Editors, and I think everyone will benefit from the authors' experience. I certainly have." -- Tony Saveski "The authors of this seminal book have decades of proven experience with the most productive and robust software engineering technologies ever developed. Their experiences have now been well applied to the use of Eclipse for more effective Java development. A must-have for any serious software engineering professional!" -- Ed Klimas "Just wanted to also let you know this is an excellent book! Thanks for putting forth the effort to create a book that is easy to read and technical at the same time!" -- Brooke Hedrick "The key to developing great plug-ins for Eclipse is understanding where and how to extend the IDE, and that's what this book gives you. It is a must for serious plug-in developers, especially those building commercial applications. I wouldn't be without it." -- Brian Wilkerson "If you're looking for just one Eclipse plug-in development book that will be your guide, this is the one. While there are other books available on Eclipse, few dive as deep as Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins." -- Simon Archer Eclipse has established itself as a dominant force in the application-development space. Key to the success of Eclipse is the ability of developers to extend its functionality using plug-ins. This new edition of Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins is the definitive, start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality Eclipse plug-ins, with an emphasis on adding the sophistication and polish that paying customers demand. The book provides both a quick introduction to using Eclipse for new users and a reference for experienced Eclipse users wishing to expand their knowledge and improve the quality of their Eclipse-based products. Revised to take advantage of pure Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2 APIs, this widely praised bestseller presents detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development and specific solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter. All code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, and screen captures have been updated. Some Eclipse concepts--such as actions, views, and editors--have not changed radically, but now have additional functionality and capabilities. Other areas, such as the Eclipse plug-in infrastructure, have changed drastically due to the Eclipse shift towards an OSGi-based infrastructure. This edition is fully updated to address these new advances for Eclipse developers. Includes a quick introduction to Eclipse for experienced Java programmers Serves as a systematic reference for experienced Eclipse users Introduces all the tools you need to build Eclipse and Rational plug-ins Explains the Eclipse architecture and the structure of plug-ins and extension points Offers practical guidance on building Eclipse user interfaces with SWT and JFace Shows how to use change tracking, perspectives, builders, markers, natures, and more Covers internationalization, help systems, features, and branding This book is designed for anyone who wants a deep understanding of Eclipse, and every experienced developer interested in extending Eclipse or the Rational Software Development Platform.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Skip McGaughey xxxi Foreword by Simon Archer xxxiii Preface xxxvChapter 1: Using Eclipse Tools 1 1.1  Getting Started 1 1.2  The Eclipse Workbench 3 1.3  Setting Up Your Environment 14 1.4  Creating a Project 19 1.5  Navigating 26 1.6  Searching 28 1.7  Writing Code 34 1.8  Team Development Using CVS 48 1.9  Running Applications 54 1.10 Introduction to Debugging 58 1.11 Introduction to Testing 61 1.12 Summary 63 Chapter 2: A Simple Plug-in Example 65 2.1  The Favorites Plug-in 65 2.2  Creating a Plug-in Project 66 2.3  Reviewing the Generated Code 71 2.4  Building a Product 81 2.5  Installing and Running the Product 86 2.6  Debugging the Product 88 2.7  PDE Views 90 2.8  Writing Plug-in Tests 92 2.9  Summary 98 Chapter 3: Eclipse Infrastructure 101 3.1  Structural Overview 101 3.2  Plug-in Directory or JAR file 104 3.3  Plug-in Manifest 107 3.4  Plug-in Class 114 3.5  Plug-in Model 119 3.6  Logging 122 3.7  Eclipse Plug-ins 124 3.8  Summary 125 Chapter 4: The Standard Widget Toolkit 127 4.1  SWT History and Goals 127 4.2  SWT Widgets 130 4.3  Layout Management 170 4.4  Resource Management 180 4.5  Summary 181 Chapter 5: JFace Viewers 185 5.1  List-Oriented Viewers 185 5.2  Text Viewers 203 5.3  Summary 206 Chapter 6: Actions 207 6.1  IAction versus IActionDelegate 207 6.2  Workbench Window Actions 209 6.3  Object Actions 224 6.4  View Actions 237 6.5  Editor Actions 244 6.6  Key Bindings 251 6.7  RFRS Considerations 256 6.8  Summary 257 Chapter 7: Views 259 7.1  View Declaration 261 7.2  View Part 263 7.3  View Actions 283 7.4  Linking the View 305 7.5  Saving View State 308 7.6  Testing 314 7.7  Image Caching 315 7.8  Auto-sizing Table Columns 316 7.9  RFRS Considerations 319 7.10  Summary 323 Chapter 8: Editors 325 8.1  Editor Declaration 326 8.2  Editor Part 330 8.3  Editing 344 8.4  Editor Lifecycle 350 8.5  Editor Actions 354 8.6  Linking the Editor 369 8.7  RFRS Considerations 369 8.8  Summary 374 Chapter 9: Resource Change Tracking 375 9.1  IResourceChangeListener 375 9.2  Processing Change Events 379 9.3  Batching Change Events 382 9.4  Progress Monitor 383 9.5  Delayed Changed Events 387 9.6  Summary 388 Chapter 10: Perspectives 389 10.1  Creating a Perspective 389 10.2  Enhancing an Existing Perspective 396 10.3  RFRS Considerations 403 10.4  Summary 404 Chapter 11: Dialogs and Wizards 40511.1  Dialogs 405 11.2  Wizards 430 11.3  RFRS Considerations 449 11.4  Summary 450 Chapter 12: Preference Pages 451 12.1 Creating a Preference Page 451 12.2 Preference Page APIs 453 12.3 Preference APIs 467 12.4 RFRS Considerations 474 12.5 Summary 475 Chapter 13: Properties 477 13.1  Creating Properties 477 13.2  Displaying Properties in the Properties Dialog 481 13.3  Displaying Properties in the Properties View 489 13.4  Property Pages Reused as Preference Pages 493 13.5  RFRS Considerations 495 13.6  Summary 495 Chapter 14: Builders, Markers, and Natures 497 14.1  Builders 499 14.2  Markers 512 14.3  Natures 525 14.4  RFRS Considerations 535 14.5  Summary 537 Chapter 15: Implementing Help 539 15.1  Using Help 539 15.2  Implementing Help 542 15.3  Context-Sensitive Help (F1) 552 15.4  Accessing Help Programmatically 560 15.5  Cheat Sheets 563 15.6  RFRS Considerations 570 15.7  Summary 574 Chapter 16: Internationalization 575 16.1  Externalizing the Plug-in Manifest 576 16.2  Externalizing Plug-in Strings 578 16.3  Using Fragments 587 16.4  Summary 594 Chapter 17: Creating New Extension Points 595 17.1  The Extension Point Mechanism 595 17.2  Defining an Extension Point 597 17.3  Code Behind an Extension Point 607 17.4  Extension Point Documentation 614 17.5  Using the Extension Point 615 17.6  RFRS Considerations 617 17.7  Summary 618 Chapter 18: Features, Branding, and Updates 619 18.1  Feature Projects 620 18.2  Branding 631 18.3  Update Sites 637 18.4  RFRS Considerations 647 18.5  Summary 648 Chapter 19: Building a Product 651 19.1  A Brief Introduction to Ant 651 19.2  Building the Favorites Product 671 19.3  Summary 707 Chapter 20: Advanced Topics 709 20.1  Advanced Search--Reference Projects 710 20.2  Accessing Internal Code 711 20.3  Adapters 714 20.4  Opening a Browser or Creating an Email 718 20.5  Types Specified in an Extension Point 723 20.6  Modifying Eclipse to Find Part Identifiers 727 20.7  Label Decorators 732 20.8  Background Tasks--Jobs API 739 20.9  Plug-in ClassLoaders 742 20.10  Early Startup 747 20.11  Rich Client Platform 748 20.12  Conclusion 749 Appendix A: Eclipse Plug-ins and Resources 751 A.1  Plug-ins 751 A.2  Resources 760 Appendix B: Ready for Rational Software  765 Index 767

About the Author :
Eric Clayberg is Senior Vice President for Product Development for Instantiations, Inc. Eric is a easoned software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager. He has a B.S. from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and has cofounded two successful software companies, ObjectShare and Instantiations. Dan Rubel is Chief Technology Officer for Instantiations, Inc. He is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of OO technologies. Dan is the primary architect and product manager for several successful commercial products. He has a B.S. from Bucknell and is a cofounder of Instantiations.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780321467829
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison-Wesley Professional
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321467825
  • Publisher Date: 27 Apr 2021
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Sub Title: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins


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