Errata

Eclipse Plugins Book - Errata

(originally "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plugins")

A few corrections as noted below...

Section 1.2 The Eclipse Workbench

The URL ... www.qualityeclipse.com/doc/memory.html ... is no longer valid.

Section 2.8 Writing plug-in tests

The correct waitForJobs method (which is in the downloaded code) is:

public void waitForJobs() {

while (Job.getJobManager().currentJob() != null)

delay(1000);

}

This appears to be due to a known issue with Mylyn

See http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mylyn-dev/msg00072.html

Section 2.9 Book Samples

The update site http://www.qualityeclipse.com/update is now provided as a downloadable zip file instead and is intended for Eclipse 3.6+ as described on the Source Code page.

Section 6.2.5.1 Limiting context menu item visibility

On page 225 at the end of section 6.2.5.1, you need to add org.eclipse.core.resources in addition to the other required plug-in mentioned.

Section 15.1 Using Help

The URL metioned... http://downloads.instantiations.com/HelpComposerDoc/integration/latest/docs/html/gettingstarted/linkhelptomenu.html ... is no longer valid.

Section 19.4 Summary

The URL mentioned... www.qualityeclipse.com/ant ... is no longer valid.

Appendix A: Eclipse Plugins and Resources

Instantiations was acquired by Google and the Instantiations developer tools are now available for free and are now available here. In addition, the WindowBuilder Pro product was donated to Eclipse and is now part of Eclipse 3.7