Re: Large Eclipse plugin projects.

From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Large Eclipse plugin projects.
Date	2015-04-21 12:32 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 04/21/2015 09:31 AM, Steve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently working with a project written with the Eclipse GUI library/API.  It consists of literally dozens of Eclipse plugins unified together into one application via a master XML.
>
> Each "plugin" is seen in Eclipse as a "project" or "package" and seems to be really a library, a module.
>
> I would like to understand Eclipse plugin and take that knowledge to understand how this application is wired together.
>
> I went to Amazon and searched for books about Eclipse plugin development.  As always with tech book reviews there were some detractors.
>
> I would be grateful if anyone could recommend a book or other resource for my goal of understanding how a large Eclipse application consisting of many plugins could work.
>
If you haven't looked at (worked your way through)
<http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/eclipse.html>
I would recommend you do so before buying a book.

Between that and <http://help.eclipse.org> you
can go a very long way toward understanding the
big picture. Then come the devilish details.

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