What are the best resources to get started with Eclipse plugin development?

Question

I'm interested in writing eclipse plugins where do I start?

What resources have helped you?

I'm looking for:
1. Tutorials
2. Sites devoted to plugin development
3. Books

Answer 1

You can find a good step by step detailed tutorial here:

http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/

Other tutorials:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-snippet/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16RichEclipse

http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html

A decent book, that I've used is "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins".

Answer 2

Here's all the books available for developing Eclipse Plugins: http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/books-index-req-view_subcat-sid-4.html

Answer 3

I have done quite a bit with an RCP application that made use of multiple plug-ins. This book helped me tremendously in all fronts: RCP framework and plug-in development: http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Rich-Client-Platform-Applications/dp/0321334612

The book walks you through the development of a IM chat client using RCP and plug-in development.

Also the eclipse site and IBM have some pretty good tutorials, here is one: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecplug/

Answer 4

As Eclipse RCP is also based on plug-ins this might also help: Eclipse RCP Introduction

Answer 5

The RCP book mentioned above is great Also there are some older online articles on the eclipse site starting with http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html. Unfortunately they are a bit out of date.