Chapter 1. Creating Your First Plug-in
Eclipse – an IDE for everything and nothing in particular.
Eclipse is a highly modular application consisting of hundreds of plug-ins, and can be extended by installing additional plug-ins. Plug-ins are developed and debugged with the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE).
In this chapter we will:
- Set up an Eclipse environment for doing plug-in development
- Create a plug-in with the new plug-in wizard
- Launch a new Eclipse instance with the plug-in enabled
- Debug the Eclipse plug-in
Getting started
Developing plug-ins requires an Eclipse development environment. This book has been developed and tested on Eclipse Mars 4.5 and Eclipse Neon 4.6, which was released in June 2016. Use the most recent version available. ...
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