Guide

• Welcome to Eclipse
  • Who needs a platform?
  • The holy grail
  • What is Eclipse?
  • Go to eclipse.org
• Platform architecture
  • Platform SDK roadmap
• Simple plug-in example
  • A minimal plug-in
  • Creating the plug-in project
  • The Hello World view
  • The Hello World manifest
  • Running the plug-in
  • Beyond the basics
• Runtime overview
  • The runtime plug-in model
    • Plug-ins and bundles
    • Extension points and the registry
  • Runtime preferences
  • Content types
  • Concurrency infrastructure
    • Reporting progress
    • Job scheduling
    • Scheduling rules
    • Locks
• Plugging into the workbench
  • Workbench under the covers
  • Basic workbench extension points
    • org.eclipse.ui.views
    • org.eclipse.ui.viewActions
    • org.eclipse.ui.editors
    • org.eclipse.ui.editorActions
    • org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus
    • org.eclipse.ui.actionSets
  • Preference pages
    • Contributing a preference page
    • Implementing a preference page
    • Field editors
  • The plug-in class
• Dialogs and wizards
  • Standard dialogs
  • Application dialogs
  • Dialog settings
  • Wizards
  • Workbench wizard extension points
    • org.eclipse.ui.newWizards
    • org.eclipse.ui.importWizards
    • org.eclipse.ui.exportWizards
  • Wizard dialogs
  • Multi-page wizards
• JFace UI framework
  • Viewers
  • Actions and contributions
  • User interface resources
  • Long-running operations
• Standard Widget Toolkit
  • Widgets
    • Controls
    • Events
    • Custom widgets
  • Layouts
    • FillLayout
    • RowLayout
    • FormLayout
    • GridLayout
    • StackLayout
    • Custom Layouts
  • Threading issues
  • Error handling
  • Graphics
• Resources overview
  • Resources and the workspace
  • Resources and the local file system
  • Resource properties
  • Project-scoped preferences
  • File encoding and content types
  • Linked resources
  • Resource markers
  • Modifying the workspace
    • Batching resource changes
    • Tracking resource changes
    • Concurrency and the workspace
  • Incremental project builders
  • Derived resources
  • Workspace save participation
  • Project natures
  • Resource modification hooks
  • Refresh providers
• Advanced Workbench Concepts
  • Workbench menu contributions
  • Menu and toolbar paths
  • Action set part associations
  • Boolean expressions and action filters
  • Retargetable actions
    • Setting a global action handler
    • Contributing new retargetable actions
      • Retargetable editor actions
      • Retargetable action set actions
  • Perspectives
    • org.eclipse.ui.perspectives
    • org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions
  • Decorators
  • Workbench key bindings
    • Commands
    • Key bindings
    • Key configurations
    • Contexts and key bindings
  • Element factories
  • Accessible user interfaces
  • Honoring single click support
  • Working sets
  • Filtering large user interfaces
    • Activities
    • Contexts
  • Guiding the user through tasks
    • Cheat sheets
    • Intro support
  • Workbench concurrency support
  • Workbench resource support
    • Contributing a property page
    • Implementing a property page
    • Marker help and resolution
      • Contributing marker help
      • Contributing marker resolution
    • Contributing resource filters
    • Text file encoding
• Editors
  • Workbench editors
  • Text editors and platform text
  • Documents and partitions
  • Source viewers and annotations
  • Configuring a source viewer
  • Text and ruler hover
  • Syntax coloring
  • Content assist
  • Registering editor actions
  • Other text editor responsibilities
  • Content outliners
• Plugging in help
  • Building a help plug-in
    • Table of contents (toc) files
    • Help server and file locations
    • Completing the plug-in manifest
    • Building nested documentation structures
    • Dynamic help
  • Infopops
    • Declaring a context id
    • Describing and packaging infopop content
  • Active help
    • Writing the help action
    • Invoking the action from HTML
    • Tips for debugging active help
• Search support
  • Contributing a search page
  • Contributing a search result page
• Compare support
  • Merging multiple streams
  • Implementing a content viewer
  • Implementing a structure viewer
  • Advanced compare techniques
• Team support
  • Repository providers
  • Resource management
  • Synchronization Support
    • Local History Synchronization Example
    • Beyond the basics
  • Rich Team Integration
    • Adding team actions
    • Team decorators
    • Adding preferences and properties
• Program debug and launch support
  • Launching a program
    • Adding launchers to the platform
    • Handling errors from a launched program
    • Launch configuration dialog
    • Launch configuration type images
    • Launch shortcuts
  • Debugging a program
    • Platform debug model
    • Breakpoints
    • Expressions
    • Debug model presentation
    • Debug UI utility classes
• Platform Ant support
  • Running Ant buildfiles programmatically
  • Ant tasks provided by the platform
  • Contributing tasks and types
  • Developing Ant tasks and types within Eclipse
  • Expanding the Ant classpath
• Packaging and delivering Eclipse based products
  • Defining a Product
    • The products extension point
    • Customizing a product
    • Products as primary features
    • Customizing a primary feature
  • Features
  • Plug-ins and fragments
  • Locale specific files
  • Product installation guidelines
  • Product extensions
  • Updating a product or extension
• Building a Rich Client Platform application
  • The browser example
  • Defining a rich client application
  • Customizing the workbench
  • Making UI contributions
    • Adding the perspective
    • Adding views
    • Defining the actions