 Eclipse Plugins Book - Table of Contents
(originally "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plugins")
Below is the table of contents as it appears in the book plus links to some sample chapters. Foreword by Skip McGaughey Foreword by Simon Archer 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 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 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 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 |
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