Eclipse Plug-In Architecture

An Eclipse project consists of a hierarchy of files in a workspace.

In order to have an active running program we need to translate these files to resources in memory.

There are 2 types of URI:

• Identify resources.
• Identify java classes.

Eclipse Application Model

• Perspectives
• Parts (views + Editors)
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Handlers
• Commands
• Key Bindings

META-INF/
        MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: %Bundle-Name
Bundle-SymbolicName: com.euclideanspace.spad.builder;singleton:=true
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0.qualifier
Bundle-Activator: com.euclideanspace.spad.builder.Activator
Bundle-Vendor: %Bundle-Vendor
Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui,
	   org.eclipse.core.runtime,
	   org.eclipse.ui.ide;bundle-version="3.8.0",
	   org.eclipse.core.resources;bundle-version="3.8.0"
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy

OSGI-INF/l10n/
      bundle.properties

A '.properties' file contains key-value pairs. For instance the MANIFEST.MF file above references 'Bundle-Name' and 'Bundle-Vendor' from this file.

This is defined in:

java.util.ResourceBundle

#Properties file for com.euclideanspace.spad.builder
category.name = SPAD
wizard.name = SPAD project
Bundle-Vendor = EUCLIDEANSPACE
Bundle-Name = SPAD Builder

build.properties

source.. = src/
output.. = bin/
bin.includes = META-INF/,\
               .,\
               plugin.xml,\
               OSGI-INF/l10n/bundle.properties

plugin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
          <?eclipse version="3.4"?>
          <plugin>
  <extension
          point="org.eclipse.ui.newWizards">
  <category
          id="com.euclideanspace.spad.builder.category.wizards"
          name="%category.name">
  </category>
  <wizard
          category="com.euclideanspace.spad.builder.category.wizards"
          class="com.euclideanspace.spad.builder.BuilderNewWizard"
          id="builder.wizard.new.custom"
          name="%wizard.name">
  </wizard>
  </extension>
        </plugin>

ResourceBundle rb = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test.bundletest.mybundle");
		Enumeration  keys = rb.getKeys();
		while (keys.hasMoreElements()) {
			String key = keys.nextElement();
			String value = rb.getString(key);
			System.out.println(key + ": " + value);
		}

org.eclipse.ui.perspectives
org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions

org.eclipse.ui.actionSets

depreciated

org.eclipse.ui.help
org.eclipse.help.contentProducer