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— Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Director, Open Source Process, Eclipse Foundation
“As the title suggests, this massive tome is intended as a guide to best practices for writing Eclipse plug-ins. I think in that respect it succeeds handily. Before you even think about distributing a plug-in you’ve written, read this book.”
— Ernest Friedman-Hill
Sheriff, JavaRanch.com
“If you’re looking for just one Eclipse plug-in development book that will be your guide, this is the one. While there are other books available on Eclipse, few dive as deep as
Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins.”
— Simon Archer
“Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins was an invaluable training aid for all of our team members. In fact, training our team without the use of this book as a base would have been virtually impossible. It is now required reading for all our developers and helped us deliver a brand-new, very complex product on time and on budget thanks to the great job this book does of explaining the process of building plug-ins for Eclipse.”
— Bruce Gruenbaum
“This is easily one of the most useful books I own. If you are new to developing Eclipse plug-ins, it is a ‘must-have’ that will save you lots of time and effort. You will find lots of good advice in here, especially things that will help add a whole layer of professionalism and completeness to any plug-in. The book is very focused, well-structured, thorough, clearly written, and doesn’t contain a single page of ‘waffly page filler.’ The diagrams explaining the relationships between the different components and manifest sections are excellent and aid in understanding how everything fits together. This book goes well beyond Actions, Views, and Editors, and I think everyone will benefit from the authors’ experience. I certainly have.”
— Tony Saveski
“The authors of this seminal book have decades of proven experience with the most productive and robust software engineering technologies ever developed. Their experiences have now been well applied to the use of Eclipse for more effective Java development. A must-have for any serious software engineering professional!”
— Ed Klimas
“Just wanted to also let you know this is an excellent book! Thanks for putting forth the effort to create a book that is easy to read and technical at the same time!”
— Brooke Hedrick
“The key to developing great plug-ins for Eclipse is understanding where and how to extend the IDE, and that’s what this book gives you. It is a must for serious plug-in developers, especially those building commercial applications. I wouldn’t be without it.”
— Brian Wilkerson
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Building on two internationally best-selling previous editions, Eclipse Plug-ins, Third Edition, has been fully revised to reflect the powerful new capabilities of Eclipse 3.4. Leading Eclipse experts Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel present detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter.
All code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, and screen captures have been thoroughly updated to reflect both the Eclipse 3.4 API and the latest Java syntax. In addition, Clayberg and Rubel have completely revamped their popular Favorites View case study, reworking much of its content and recreating its code from scratch. The authors carefully cover new functionality added to existing Eclipse features, such as views and editors, and fully explain brand-new features such as Commands, GEF, and PDE Build.
This extensively revised edition
- Thoroughly covers Eclipse’s new preferences
- Illuminates the powerful new Eclipse Command Framework, which replaces Eclipse’s older Action Framework
- Presents extensive new discussions of using commands with views and editors
- Introduces Mylyn, the new task-focused interface that reduces information overload and simplifies multi-tasking
- Contains an all-new chapter on using the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) to build dynamic, interactive graphical user interface elements
- Walks you step by step through the entire PDE Build process
- Shows how to create update sites with p2, which replaces Eclipse’s old Update Manager
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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.
thanks,
--adi
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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