developing plugin for eclipse

Question

Hi All,

Anybody out there who had developed plugins for eclipse? I am using eclipse for last 4-5 years and am just thinking about developing some plugins for eclipse. I dont know anything about that, like how its written and all. If someone who has experience on this can show light over that, it would be great. Some really good tutorials or links or any useful articles will do.

Cheers, PK

Answer 1

this might help you have a look http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html

and for breif you can go here too http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecplug/

Answer 2

You can start from creating a sample eclipse plugin project. You could also use their plugin-spy (Alt Shift F1) to gain insight into any screen. You can start from : http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Your%20First%20Plug-in/YourFirstPlugin.html.

Answer 3

Here is one more tutorial: http://eclipsepluginsite.com/

Answer 4

Also have a look at the sample code that is generated by creating a new project using the various plug-in wizards.