This is the first start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality extensions for both Eclipse and IBMs Web Sphere Studio Workbench. This book presents detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development - with specific solutions for the challenges you're most likely to encounter. It contains everything you need to gain mastery and achieve cookbook-style code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, screen shots, and much more.
The main part of the book walks you through examples on how to work with the plugin system in Eclipse. It is interesting to learn the modular approach from Eclipse from the start. Also, the use from Java of native graphic libraries with SWT and JFace makes it valuable to read. Last, it shows how enterprise software evolves and what roles framework such as Eclipse can play.