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How to develop, build, test, package, and release Eclipse plug-ins with features for Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x
Overview
- Create plug-ins to extend the Eclipse runtime covering Eclipse 3.x and the changes required for Eclipse 4.x
- Plug-ins from design to distribution wide coverage of the entire process
- No prior OSGi or Eclipse plug-in development experience necessary
In Detail
As a highly extensible platform, Eclipse is used by everyone from independent software developers to NASA. Key to this is Eclipses plug-in ecosystem, which allows applications to be developed in a modular architecture and extended through its use of plug-ins and features.
Eclipse Plugin Development by Example: Beginners Guide takes the reader through the full journey of plug-in development, starting with an introduction to Eclipse plug-ins, continued through packaging and culminating in automated testing and deployment. The example code provides simple snippets which can be developed and extended to get you going quickly.
This book covers basics of plug-in development, creating user interfaces with both SWT and JFace, and interacting with the user and execution of long-running tasks in the background.
Example-based tasks such as creating and working with preferences and advanced tasks such as well as working with Eclipses files and resources. A specific chapter on the differences between Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x presents a detailed view of the changes needed by applications and plug-ins upgrading to the new model. Finally, the book concludes on how to package plug-ins into update sites, and build and test them automatically.
What you will learn from this book
- How to create plug-ins for Eclipse 3.x and 4.x and automatically test plug-ins with JUnit
- How to display tree and table information in views
- What are the specific differences between the Eclipse 3.x model and the Eclipse 4.x model
- How and when to build user interfaces from SWT and JFace
- How to run tasks in the background and update the user interface asynchronously
- How to build plug-ins, features and update sites with Maven Tycho and automate user interface tests with SWTBot
- How to store and obtain preferences, and how to integrate with the Preferences panel
- How to work with the Eclipse resources model for creating and updating files and reporting errors to the user
Approach
A Beginners Guide following the by Example approach. There will be 5-8 major examples that will be used in the book to develop advanced plugins with the Eclipse IDE.
Who this book is written for
This book is for Java developers who are familiar with Eclipse as a Java IDE and are interested in learning how to develop plug-ins for Eclipse. No prior knowledge of Eclipse plug-in development or OSGi is necessary, although you are expected to know how to create, run, and debug Java programs in Eclipse.
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Dr Alex Blewitt has been developing Java applications since Version 1.0 was released in 1996, and has been using the Eclipse platform since its first release as part of the IBM WebSphere Studio product suite. He even migrated some plugins from Visual Age for Java to WebSphere Studio/Eclipse as part of his PhD on Automated Verification of Design Patterns. He got involved in the open source community as a tester when Eclipse 2.1 was being released for Mac OS X, and then subsequently as an editor for EclipseZone, including being a finalist for Eclipse Ambassador in 2007.
More recently, Alex has been writing for InfoQ, covering generic Java and specifically, Eclipse and OSGi subjects. He keynoted the 2011 OSGi Community Event on the past, present, and future of OSGi. The coverage of both new releases of the Eclipse platform and its projects, as well as video interviews with some of the Eclipse project leads can be found via the InfoQ home page, for which he was nominated and won the Eclipse Top Contributor 2012 award.
Alex currently works for an investment bank in London. He also has a number of apps on the Apple AppStore through Bandlem Limited. When he's not working on technology, and if the weather is nice, he likes to go flying from the nearby Cranfield airport.
Alex writes regularly at his blog, http://alblue.bandlem.com, as well as tweets regularly from Twitter and App.Net as @alblue.
I'd like to thank my wife Amy for supporting me during the development of this book, (particularly the late nights and weekends that were spent completing it), and indeed throughout our decade plus marriage. I'd also like to thank my parents, Derek and Ann, for installing a sense of independence and self-belief which has taken me many places in my lifetime. I hope that I can encourage a similar level of confidence and self-belief in my children, Sam and Holly.
Special thanks are due to Ann Ford, who provided detailed feedback about every chapter and the exercises therein. Without her diligence and attention, this book would contain many more errors than I would like. Any remaining errors are my own. My thanks also go to the other reviewers of earlier draft chapters: Thomas Fletcher and Jeff Maury, for their comments and suggestions.
During the later stages of the book, I was also fortunate enough to receive some good feedback and advice from Paul Webster and Lars Vogel, both of whom are heavily involved in the Eclipse 4 platform. Their comments on the chapter on Eclipse 4 have measurably improved the content.
Finally, I'd like to thank OD, DJ, and JC for their support in making this book possible.
Ann Ford is an experienced Eclipse plugin developer who has contributed significant portions of the Eclipse Technology Accessibility Tools Framework incubator project as a former committer. Having over 30 years of programming experience with IBM, she has worked on tools and components of OS/2, DB2, and the IBM JDK, with extensive experience in issues of usability, accessibility, and translation. Currently, she specializes in the design and development of GUIs for desktop applications and tools using Java Swing, Eclipse SWT, and JFace, with an eye towards mobile applications in the future.
Thomas Fletcher has worked in the field of real-time and embedded software development for more than 10 years and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. He is a Technical Subject Matter Expert and Thought Leader on Embedded System Architecture and Design, Real-time Performance Analysis, Power Management, and High Availability.
Prior to Crank Software, Thomas directed QNX Software Systems' Tools Development Team. He was the Lead Architect for Multimedia, Team Leader of Core OS, and regularly engaged with sales and marketing as a result of his ability to bridge technology and customer needs.
Thomas is an active participant within the Eclipse Community. He was a committer with the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project and represented QNX on the Eclipse Architecture and the Multicore Association review boards.
Thomas holds a degree in Master of Computer Engineering from Carleton University, focusing on instrumentation and performance analysis of embedded systems, and a degree in Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria.
Jeff MAURY is currently working as the technical lead for the Java team at SYSPERTEC, a French ISV offering mainframe integration tools.
Prior to SYSPERTEC, he co-founded in 1996 a French ISV called SCORT, precursor of the application server concept and offering J2EE-based integration tools.
He started his career in 1988 at MARBEN, a French integration company specialized in telecommunication protocols. At MARBEN, he started as a software developer and finished as X.400 team technical lead and Internet division strategist.
I would like to dedicate my work to Jean-Pierre ANSART, my mentor, and thank my wife Julia for her patience and my three sons Robinson, Paul, and Ugo.
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