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| <h1>Introduction to PDE</h1> | |
| <p>The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) is a tool that is designed to | |
| assist developers in the creation, development, testing, debugging, and | |
| deployment of Eclipse plug-ins. The mandate of PDE also encompasses | |
| tooling for the development of fragments, features, and update sites.</p> | |
| <p>PDE is part of the Eclipse SDK and not a separately launched | |
| tool. In line with the general Eclipse platform philosophy, PDE provides a | |
| wide variety of platform contributions (e.g. views, editors, wizards, launchers, | |
| etc.) that blend transparently with the rest of the Eclipse workbench, and | |
| assist the developer in every stage of plug-in development while working inside | |
| the Eclipse workbench.</p> | |
| <p>As a pre-requisite to working with PDE, you need | |
| to understand the concepts presented in the Platform ISV Guide and the JDT User | |
| Guide.</p> | |
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