Contents

Foreword by Skip McGaughey

Foreword by Simon Archer

Preface

Chapter 1: Using Eclipse Tools

1.1 Getting Started

1.2 The Eclipse Workbench

1.3 Setting Up Your Environment

1.4 Creating a Project

1.5 Navigating

1.6 Searching

1.7 Writing Code

1.8 Team Development Using CVS

1.9 Running Applications

1.10 Introduction to Debugging

1.11 Introduction to Testing

1.12 Introduction to Mylyn

1.13 Summary

Chapter 2: A Simple Plug-in Example

2.1 The Favorites Plug-in

2.2 Creating a Plug-in Project

2.3 Reviewing the Generated Code

2.4 Building a Product

2.5 Installing and Running the Product

2.6 Debugging the Product

2.7 PDE Views

2.8 Writing Plug-in Tests

2.9 Book Samples

2.10 Summary

Chapter 3: Eclipse Infrastructure

3.1 Structural Overview

3.2 Plug-in Directory or JAR file

3.3 Plug-in Manifest

3.4 Activator or Plug-in Class

3.5 Plug-in Model

3.6 Logging

3.7 Eclipse Plug-ins

3.8 Summary

Chapter 4: The Standard Widget Toolkit

4.1 SWT History and Goals

4.2 SWT Widgets

4.3 Layout Management

4.4 Resource Management

4.5 GUI Builders

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5: JFace Viewers

5.1 List-Oriented Viewers

5.2 Text Viewers

5.3 Summary

Chapter 6: Commands and Actions

6.1 Commands

6.2 Menu and Toolbar Contributions

6.3 Handlers

6.4 Key Bindings

6.5 IAction versus IActionDelegate

6.6 Workbench Window Actions

6.7 Object Actions

6.8 View Actions

6.9 Editor Actions

6.10 Actions and Key Bindings

6.11 RFRS Considerations

6.12 Summary

Chapter 7: Views

7.1 View Declaration

7.2 View Part

7.3 View Commands

7.4 Linking the View

7.5 Saving View State

7.6 Testing

7.7 Image Caching

7.8 Auto-sizing Table Columns

7.9 RFRS Considerations

7.10 Summary

Chapter 8: Editors

8.1 Editor Declaration

8.2 Editor Part

8.3 Editing

8.4 Editor Lifecycle

8.5 Editor Commands

8.6 Linking the Editor

8.7 RFRS Considerations

8.8 Summary

Chapter 9: Resource Change Tracking

9.1 IResourceChangeListener

9.2 Processing Change Events

9.3 Batching Change Events

9.4 Progress Monitor

9.5 Delayed Changed Events

9.6 Summary

Chapter 10: Perspectives

10.1 Creating a Perspective

10.2 Enhancing an Existing Perspective

10.3 RFRS Considerations

10.4 Summary

Chapter 11: Dialogs and Wizards

11.1 Dialogs

11.2 Wizards

11.3 RFRS Considerations

11.4 Summary

Chapter 12: Preference Pages

12.1 Creating a Preference Page

12.2 Preference Page APIs

12.3 Preference APIs

12.4 RFRS Considerations

12.5 Summary

Chapter 13: Properties

13.1 Creating Properties

13.2 Displaying Properties in the Properties Dialog

13.3 Displaying Properties in the Properties View

13.4 Property Pages Reused as Preference Pages

13.5 RFRS Considerations

13.6 Summary

Chapter 14: Builders, Markers, and Natures

14.1 Builders

14.2 Markers

14.3 Natures

14.4 RFRS Considerations

14.5 Summary

Chapter 15: Implementing Help

15.1 Using Help

15.2 Implementing Help

15.3 Context-Sensitive Help (F1)

15.4 Accessing Help Programmatically9

15.5 Cheat Sheets

15.6 RFRS Considerations

15.7 Summary

Chapter 16: Internationalization

16.1 Externalizing the Plug-in Manifest

16.2 Externalizing Plug-in Strings

16.3 Using Fragments

16.4 Manual Testing

16.5 Summary

Chapter 17: Creating New Extension Points

17.1 The Extension Point Mechanism

17.2 Defining an Extension Point

17.3 Code Behind an Extension Point

17.4 Extension Point Documentation

17.5 Using the Extension Point

17.6 RFRS Considerations

17.7 Summary

Chapter 18: Features, Branding, and Updates

18.1 Feature Projects

18.2 Branding

18.3 Update Sites

18.4 RFRS Considerations

18.5 Summary

Chapter 19: Building a Product

19.1 A Brief Introduction to Ant

19.2 Building with PDE

19.3 Debugging the PDE Build process

19.4 Summary

Chapter 20: GEF: Graphical Editing Framework

20.1 GEF Architecture

20.2 GEF Model

20.3 GEF Controller

20.4 GEF Figures

20.5 GEF in an Eclipse View

20.6 GEF in an Eclipse Editor

20.7 Palette

20.8 Summary

Chapter 21: Advanced Topics

21.1 Advanced Search Reference Projects

21.2 Accessing Internal Code

21.3 Adapters

21.4 Opening a Browser or Creating an Email

21.5 Types Specified in an Extension Point

21.6 Modifying Eclipse to Find Part Identifiers

21.7 Label Decorators

21.8 Background Tasks Jobs API

21.9 Plug-in ClassLoaders

21.10 Early Startup

21.11 Rich Client Platform

21.12 Conclusion

Appendix A: Eclipse Plug-ins and Resources

A.1 Plug-ins

Appendix B: Ready for Rational Software

Index