Reuse Eclipse's Plugin Manifest Editor

Question

I want to have the PluginManifestEditor functionality in my view(not in a editor). Also I need to add some extra pages to it(along with the existing ones like Overview, Dependencies, runtime etc.).

I know that its implemented in org.eclipse.pde.ui plugin. I just started diggin in to the code and found that the javadoc is sparse and not much useful. I wanted to know

1. If someone has already done similar stuff or have some pointers or approach
2. Is there any abstraction in the code so that users can reuse it and also add thier own pages.

Any ideas of how it can be done? Thanks already .

Answer 1

You could take a look at org.eclipse.ui.part.PageBookView which is the ViewPart equivalent to a MultiPageEditor. To reuse parts of the PluginManifestEditor take a look at its addEditorPages() method - maybe you can reuse some of these pages, but I haven´t don´t anything yet.