- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (17 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321228472
- ISBN-13: 978-0321228475
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 17.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,335,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The book is focused on providing developers with the definitive resource to
which they can turn for in-depth knowledge and practical solutions to
challenges encountered when extending the Eclipse environment for
commercial use. The authors use a very practical approach to teaching Eclipse.
They begin by introducing the Eclipse development environment, and
outlining the process of building a simple plugin. The rest of the book is
focused on describing each of the various aspects of plugin development and
furnishes in-depth knowledge of how to solve the various challenges involved.
Sometimes a developer needs a quick solution, while at other times that same
developer needs to gain deeper knowledge of a particular aspect of Eclipse
development. The intent is to provide several different ways for the reader to
absorb and use the information so that both needs can be addressed.
From the Back Cover
Build commercial-grade extensions to Eclipse and WebSphere Studio Workbench
This is the first definitive, start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality extensions for both Eclipse and IBM's WebSphere Studio Workbench. Leading Eclipse developers Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel don't merely introduce the basics: they show how to add the sophistication and "polish" that paying customers demand.
This book presents detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development--with specific solutions for the challenges you're most likely to encounter. It contains everything you need to gain mastery and achieve results: cookbook-style code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, screen shots, and much more.
- Includes a quick introduction to Eclipse for experienced Java programmers
- Serves as a systematic reference for experienced Eclipse users
- Introduces all the tools you need to build Eclipse and WebSphere plug-ins
- Explains the Eclipse architecture and the structure of plug-ins and extension points
- Walks step-by-step through building complete Eclipse plug-ins
- Offers practical guidance on building Eclipse user interfaces with SWT and JFace
- Shows how to use change tracking, perspectives, builders, markers, natures, and more
- Covers internationalization, Help systems, feature planning--even branding
This book is designed for anyone who wants a deep understanding of Eclipse, and every experienced developer interested in extending Eclipse or WebSphere Studio Workbench. Whether you're a tool developer building new commercial products, or a user customizing your environment, you'll find it indispensable.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as some background reading for my masters project - which as you can possibly guess was to build an Eclipse plug-in.
I thought the book was very useful, it takes a kind of step by step guide into creating a plug-in with different features and there is a full worked example they progress through the book with (which I find quite useful). What is missing is more advanced things that we required, such as the Graphical Editing Framework and Eclipse Modelling Framework, which were only covered in brief (I suppose this I can only expect).
The reason I highly recommend this book to new Eclipse developers is that there isn't a huge number of good sources out there, and this book also provides a reference list at the end of each chapter; which makes it good for students who need to cross reference.
I thought the book was very useful, it takes a kind of step by step guide into creating a plug-in with different features and there is a full worked example they progress through the book with (which I find quite useful). What is missing is more advanced things that we required, such as the Graphical Editing Framework and Eclipse Modelling Framework, which were only covered in brief (I suppose this I can only expect).
The reason I highly recommend this book to new Eclipse developers is that there isn't a huge number of good sources out there, and this book also provides a reference list at the end of each chapter; which makes it good for students who need to cross reference.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great book. Congrats. I don't consider myself an eclipse plug-in expert but the chapters 1 trough 5 are quite basic eclipse usability (206 pages). After performing a crash course in eclipse osgi the first chapters are only for beginners. I don't know they put those into this book, I mean you don't start coding on osgi, rcp without any eclipse background. And having such a huge say about rcp in general, it's spoil somehow the book. Anyway... great book!
thanks,
--adi
thanks,
--adi
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We bought this book in my company to extend Eclipse with our own plugins to support our own software framework.
To use it, you really have to sit down and work through every chapter, but sometimes you have to skip a lot of certainly useful, but not relevant at that point, information.
This way it falls between the chairs of being a tutorial and a reference.
Eclipse is developing fast, and of course this only covers 3.3 and 3.4, where Eclipse is currently at 3.5. The information is still usefull, but you have to make allowance for the differences.
Also, a few things are missing. E.g. to layout things properly, you have to call layout() or pack() on your SWT composite graphical objects, when you change it. This took me a long time to figure out, as it not mentioned, not even in the sample code.
Also, the downloadable code is updated to support the newest Eclipse version, but still even the original code is not in sync with the text.
On the other hand, we have been helped along tremendously, the Eclipse plug-in developement environment may be documented well at the API level, but we have not found any tutorial introduction other than this.
To use it, you really have to sit down and work through every chapter, but sometimes you have to skip a lot of certainly useful, but not relevant at that point, information.
This way it falls between the chairs of being a tutorial and a reference.
Eclipse is developing fast, and of course this only covers 3.3 and 3.4, where Eclipse is currently at 3.5. The information is still usefull, but you have to make allowance for the differences.
Also, a few things are missing. E.g. to layout things properly, you have to call layout() or pack() on your SWT composite graphical objects, when you change it. This took me a long time to figure out, as it not mentioned, not even in the sample code.
Also, the downloadable code is updated to support the newest Eclipse version, but still even the original code is not in sync with the text.
On the other hand, we have been helped along tremendously, the Eclipse plug-in developement environment may be documented well at the API level, but we have not found any tutorial introduction other than this.
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