Sametime Plugin Development Using Eclipse 3.5 and ST 7.5

Question

I have been trying to setup a Dev environment for Sametime Plugin Development for a week now but I am facing issues in one form or the other. The issues that I am facing are

1. After setting up the Env, the extension point schemas are missing and i am getting only the word "Generic" instead of the actual extension.
2. The above issue made me edit Plugin.xml manually and added the instructions given in the Extending Sametime Redbook. The plugin itself is not loading let alone my customizations.

I am in quandry as to how to proceed from here. I am stuck, i have tried download different versions of eclipse from 3.2 to 3.5 and none of them have worked.

I would appreciate if someone could help me on this, its really frustrating :(

Answer 1

The extension point schemas are only part of source builds of eclipse. The Eclipse RCP contains the source code of Eclipse and for this reason also the extension point schemas. This version of Eclipse is used for developing rich client applications based on Eclipse and for developing Eclipse plugins.