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I want to develop an eclipse plugin. Which is the best way to start?

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This tutorial is a good place to start. Then you might expand your knowledge by reading one of the more recent Eclipse RCP books, such as "Practical Eclipse RCP Projects". I personally started off with the tutorial about RCP that comes with the Eclipse SDK, so might want to check it out as well - it's basically a shorter version of the first tutorial I recommended you.

Bozhidar Batsov
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Don't forget to use the Eclipse RCP package, specifically designed to build a rich client application.

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See this Eclipse packages comparison table.

VonC
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I have found the book Eclipse Plugins to be a good starting point

Christopher Barber
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Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition) is a good book.

Raminder
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Contributing to Eclipse should be a very good choice.

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