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| <h1>Using the Remote System Explorer API</h1> |
| <p>In addition to all the programming API provided by Eclipse, the Remote System Explorer itself |
| comes with numerous classes and interfaces that may be of value to programmers extending the RSE. |
| Typically, these are used in conjunction with the <a href="Extensions.html">extension points</a> |
| defined by the RSE. |
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| The API set supplied by the RSE can be roughly partitioned into three areas: |
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| <li><a href="api/uiAPI.html">User interface</a> support, to make it easier to author plug-ins that extend or use the RSE. |
| <li><a href="api/resourceAPI.html">Remote resources</a> support, to enable access to remote resources via predefined subsystems. |
| <li><a href="api/modelAPI.html">Model</a> support, to enable traversal of the RSE model, to access connections, subsystem factories, subsystems, filters, and so on. |
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| This guide will introduce the capabilities of the API, leaving the programming details to the |
| reference section.</p> |
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| <h2>Provisional API</h2> |
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| <p>Although RSE API has been reviewed and proven useful in earlier proprietary |
| versions, we want to give the Open Source Communitiy a chance to provide public |
| feedback and help further improving the APIs. Therefore,</p> |
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| <p><b>As of RSE 1.0, all API is considered provisional.</b></p> |
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| <p>This means, that we reserve the right to change any API after RSE 1.0 |
| in a not backward compatible way. All such API changes will be voted on |
| by committers on the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dsdp-tm-dev"> |
| dsdp-tm-dev</a> developer mailing list, and documented in a migration guide |
| for future releases. We expect that with Community Feedback, we'll reach a |
| stable, hardened API for RSE 2.0. Please give your feedback on |
| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/">Eclipse Bugzilla</a> |
| under category DSDP, Product Target Management.</p> |
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