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| <h1>Plug-in Development Environment Overview</h1> |
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| The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides a rich set of |
| tools to create, develop, test, debug and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, |
| features, update sites and RCP products. |
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| PDE also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal |
| environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development. |
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| Some of the PDE tools include: |
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| <b>Form-Based Manifest Editors</b>: Multi-page editors that centrally manage all manifest files of a plug-in or feature. |
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| <b>RCP Tools</b>: Wizards and a form-based editor that allow you to define, brand, test and export products to multiple platforms. |
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| <b>New Project Creation Wizards</b>: Create a new plug-in, fragment, feature, feature patch and update sites. |
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| <b>Import Wizards</b>: Import plug-ins and features from the file system. |
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| <b>Export Wizards</b>: Wizards that build, package and export plug-ins, fragments and products with a single click. |
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| <b>Launchers</b>: Test and debug Eclipse applications and OSGi bundles. |
| </li> |
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| <b>Views</b>: PDE provides views that help plug-in developers inspect different aspects of their development environment. |
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| <b>Miscellaneous Tools</b>: Wizards to externalize and clean up manifest files. |
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| <b>Conversion Tools</b>: Wizard to convert a plain Java project or plain JARs into a plug-in project. |
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| <b>Integration with JDT</b>: Plug-in manifest files participate in Java search and refactoring. |
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| To get started, try out the following cheatsheets: |
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| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.cheatsheets.openCheatSheet(cheatSheetId=org.eclipse.pde.helloworld)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png"><strong>Creating an Eclipse Plug-in</strong></a> |
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| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.cheatsheets.openCheatSheet(cheatSheetId=org.eclipse.pde.rcpapp)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png"><strong>Creating a Rich Client Application</strong></a> |
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| Looking for more? Discover the latest features in the |
| <a href="../../whatsNew/pde_whatsnew.htm">What's New</a> section. |
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