Large Eclipse plugin projects.

[Steve]

Hi all,

I'm currently working with a project written with the Eclipse GUI library/API. It consists of literally dozens of Eclipse plugins unified together into one application via a master XML.

Each "plugin" is seen in Eclipse as a "project" or "package" and seems to be really a library, a module.

I would like to understand Eclipse plugin and take that knowledge to understand how this application is wired together.

I went to Amazon and searched for books about Eclipse plugin development. As always with tech book reviews there were some detractors.

I would be grateful if anyone could recommend a book or other resource for my goal of understanding how a large Eclipse application consisting of many plugins could work.

Thank you

Steve

[Jeff Higgins]

Post by Steve
Hi all,
I'm currently working with a project written with the Eclipse GUI library/API. It consists of literally dozens of Eclipse plugins unified together into one application via a master XML.
Each "plugin" is seen in Eclipse as a "project" or "package" and seems to be really a library, a module.
I would like to understand Eclipse plugin and take that knowledge to understand how this application is wired together.
I went to Amazon and searched for books about Eclipse plugin development. As always with tech book reviews there were some detractors.
I would be grateful if anyone could recommend a book or other resource for my goal of understanding how a large Eclipse application consisting of many plugins could work.

If you haven't looked at (worked your way through)
<http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/eclipse.html>
I would recommend you do so before buying a book.

Between that and <http://help.eclipse.org> you
can go a very long way toward understanding the
big picture. Then come the devilish details.