Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 1: A First Glimpse
by Emmanuel Proulx
02/09/2005 A while ago I was repairing my car. I had to remove a bolt. I opened my wrench kit and tried to find the right socket. None of them worked. The bolt was metric. I used the socket that was the closest to the ideal size. That was a bad idea; I stripped the bolt and I had to buy a special tool to remove it. The moral of the story: always use the right tool for the right job. Eclipse is an extremely popular Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and a strong competitor to NetBeans/SunOne Studio, JBuilder, and IntelliJ IDEA. The Java programmer community is rapidly moving towards Eclipse, as it is free, open source, of excellent quality, and extremely customizable. This new monthly column is about writing plugins in Eclipse. Who is this column for? Many Eclipse users simply use the IDE out of the box without needing customization. Many will be using plugins made by other people. That is not the target audience of this column. Some Eclipse users will want to customize it. Some will develop tools for their company's employees. Some will want to sell tools that connect to their products. Some will want to resell Eclipse under another name with these tools pre-installed. These people constitute the target audience. The prerequisites for starting to write Eclipse plugins are knowing how to use Eclipse and write Java programs, and having a good understanding of the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Swing. In this first installment of the column, let's explore the Eclipse plugin environment. Demonstrating Spring's Finesse
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