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| <article link="eclipse-api-usage-rules.html"> | |
| <title>How to Use the Eclipse API</title> | |
| <category>Plug-ins</category> | |
| <update> | |
| <date>May 18, 2001</date> | |
| </update> | |
| <author> | |
| <name><![CDATA[Jim des Rivières]]></name> | |
| <company>IBM</company> | |
| </author> | |
| <description> | |
| The Eclipse Platform offers a comprehensive API (Application | |
| Programmer Interface) to developers writing plug-ins. This | |
| article discusses the general ground rules for using the Eclipse | |
| Platform API, including how to tell API from non-API, and how to | |
| stay in the API "sweet spot" to avoid the risk of being broken | |
| as the platform and its APIs evolve. These general ground rules | |
| are also recommended practice for plug-ins that must declare API | |
| elements of their own. | |
| </description> | |
| </article> |