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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="../whitepapers/eclipse-overview.pdf">Eclipse |
| Platform Technical Overview</a> </strong> July 2001 (updated for Eclipse |
| 2.1 in Feb. 2003) <br> |
| The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments |
| (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse as web sites, |
| embedded JavaTM programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeansTM. This |
| paper is a general technical introduction to the Eclipse Platform. Part |
| I presents a technical overview of its architecture. Part II is a case study |
| of how the Eclipse Platform was used to build a full-featured Java development |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-RCP-2/tutorial2.html">Rich |
| Client Tutorial Part 2</a></strong> Ed Burnette (SAS) August 9, 2004 |
| (Updated November 21, 2005 for Eclipse 3.1) |
| <br> |
| The Rich Client Platform (RCP) allows you to build |
| Java applications that can compete with native applications on any |
| platform. Part 1 of the tutorial introduced you to the platform and the |
| steps used to build the smallest possible RCP program. In part 2 we'll |
| look at what we did in more detail and introduce some of the |
| configuration classes that let you take control of much of the layout |
| and functionality of an RCP application. This part has been updated for |
| Eclipse 3.1. |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Plugging-into-SourceForge/sourceforge.html">Plugging |
| into SourceForge.net</a></strong> David Biesack (SAS) October 15, 2005<br> |
| Congratulations on taking the plunge and writing an open source |
| plug-in for the Eclipse platform. |
| SourceForge.net can provide a good home your plug-in, but |
| information on how best to set up an Eclipse project there is sparse. |
| This article is an introduction to SourceForge for the Eclipse |
| developer. You will learn the features available to the |
| SourceForge.net open source developer community and be guided |
| through the process, from creating a SourceForge project to |
| hosting your Eclipse Update site. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-WTP-Persisting-EMF/persisting.html">Persisting |
| EMF models with WTP</a></strong> Daniel Rohe October 10, 2005<br> |
| This article will guide you through an example where an EMF model is created |
| without serialization and the serialization is done with the framework from |
| the WTP plugin org.eclipse.wst.common.emf. |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html">Rich |
| Client Tutorial Part 1</a></strong> Ed Burnette (SAS) July 28, |
| 2004 (updated July 2005 for Eclipse 3.1)<br> |
| The Rich Client Platform (RCP) is an exciting new way to build Java applications that can compete with native applications on any platform. This tutorial is designed to get you started building RCP applications quickly. |
| It has been updated for Eclipse 3.1. |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-VE-Custom-Widget/customwidget.html"> |
| Extending The Visual Editor</a></b> |
| Dave Orme (db4objects), Gili Mendel (IBM), Joe Winchester (IBM) |
| June 20, 2005 |
| <br> |
| This tutorial |
| shows how to extend the Visual Editor to support a custom widget. |
| It covers topics such as adding to the Visual Editor's palette, |
| building a BeanInfo class, and working with |
| EMF .override files to |
| introduce custom editor behavior. |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-GEF-EMF/gef-emf.html"> |
| Using GEF with EMF</a></b> |
| Chris Aniszczyk (IBM) |
| June 8, 2005 |
| <br> |
| The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) provides a framework for |
| creating visual editors while being model agnostic. In most cases, people |
| bring their own model which tend to be based on Plain Old Java Objects |
| (POJOs). An alternative using POJOs is the Eclipse Modeling Framework |
| (EMF), which provides many features for manipulating models that aren't |
| found in POJOs. The purpose of this article is to build upon the shapes |
| example provided by GEF using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and to |
| provide an introduction using EMF based models in GEF based editors. |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html"> |
| Build and Test Automation for Plug-ins and Features</a></b> |
| Markus Barchfeld (Zuehlke Engineering) |
| May 29, 2005 |
| <br> |
| Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside |
| the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is |
| built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature |
| is also available for any other plug-in. Although the set up of automatic |
| building and testing requires only a couple of files, it can be tedious |
| work to do nonetheless. This article shares the experiences and lessons |
| learned while setting up automatic building and testing for an |
| Open-Source Eclipse plug-in called RDT, Ruby Development Tools. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">General</font></b></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Plugging-into-SourceForge/sourceforge.html">Plugging |
| into SourceForge.net</a></strong> David Biesack (SAS) October 15, 2005<br> |
| Congratulations on taking the plunge and writing an open source |
| plug-in for the Eclipse platform. |
| SourceForge.net can provide a good home your plug-in, but |
| information on how best to set up an Eclipse project there is sparse. |
| This article is an introduction to SourceForge for the Eclipse |
| developer. You will learn the features available to the |
| SourceForge.net open source developer community and be guided |
| through the process, from creating a SourceForge project to |
| hosting your Eclipse Update site. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html"> |
| Build and Test Automation for Plug-ins and Features</a></b> |
| Markus Barchfeld (Zuehlke Engineering) |
| May 29, 2005 |
| <br> |
| Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside |
| the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is |
| built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature |
| is also available for any other plug-in. Although the set up of automatic |
| building and testing requires only a couple of files, it can be tedious |
| work to do nonetheless. This article shares the experiences and lessons |
| learned while setting up automatic building and testing for an |
| Open-Source Eclipse plug-in called RDT, Ruby Development Tools. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html">Rich |
| Client Tutorial Part 1</a></strong> Ed Burnette (SAS) July 28, |
| 2004 (updated July 2005 for Eclipse 3.1)<br> |
| The Rich Client Platform (RCP) is an exciting new way to build Java applications that can compete with native applications on any platform. This tutorial is designed to get you started building RCP applications quickly. |
| It has been updated for Eclipse 3.1. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-RCP-2/tutorial2.html">Rich |
| Client Tutorial Part 2</a></strong> Ed Burnette (SAS) August 9, 2004 |
| (Updated November 21, 2005 for Eclipse 3.1) |
| <br> |
| The Rich Client Platform (RCP) allows you to build |
| Java applications that can compete with native applications on any |
| platform. Part 1 of the tutorial introduced you to the platform and the |
| steps used to build the smallest possible RCP program. In part 2 we'll |
| look at what we did in more detail and introduce some of the |
| configuration classes that let you take control of much of the layout |
| and functionality of an RCP application. This part has been updated for |
| Eclipse 3.1. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-RCP-3/tutorial3.html">Rich |
| Client Tutorial Part 3</a></strong> Ed Burnette (SAS) July 28, |
| 2004<br> |
| The Rich Client Platform (RCP) lets you pick and choose functionality from Eclipse for use in your own applications. Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial introduced you to the platform and some of the configuration classes it provides. Part 3 discusses how to add functionality such as menus, views, and help files.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><a href="Article-PDE-does-plugins/PDE-intro.html"><strong>PDE |
| Does Plug-ins</strong></a> Wassim Melhem (IBM) and Dejan Glozic (IBM) September |
| 8, 2003<br> |
| The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides a set of tools that assist |
| the developer in every stage of plug-in development from genesis to deployment. |
| This article chronicles the creation, development, testing, building, and |
| deployment of a simple "Hello World" plug-in using a subset of |
| these tools.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Internationalization/how2I18n.html">How |
| to Internationalize your Eclipse Plug-In</a></b> Dan Kehn (IBM), Scott |
| Fairbrother (IBM), and Cam-Thu Le (IBM) August 23, 2002<br> |
| This article is a roadmap for writing Eclipse plug-ins destined for the |
| international market. We'll begin with a brief review of the motivations |
| and technical challenges of internationalization, followed by step-by-step |
| instructions of how to internationalize your Eclipse plug-in. </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-TVT/how2TestI18n.html">How |
| to Test Your Internationalized Eclipse Plug-In</a></strong> Dan Kehn (IBM) |
| August 23, 2002<br> |
| This article shows you how to validate your internationalized product and |
| prepares you for the types of common problems you can expect during translation |
| testing. It includes an Eclipse plug-in that defines a <i>Properties File |
| Compare</i> view that can help your translation testers find errors more |
| quickly.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Branding/branding-your-application.html"> |
| Branding Your Application</a></b> Andrew Eidsness and Pascal Rapicault |
| (IBM) September 16, 2004 <br> |
| In this article we look at how to create branding for your Eclipse-based |
| application. Branding is how you change the high level visual elements of your |
| product. This includes items such as the splash screen, the about dialog, and |
| the program executable.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-API%20use/eclipse-api-usage-rules.html"> |
| How to Use the Eclipse API</a></b> Jim des Rivieres (OTI) April |
| 24, 2001 <br> |
| 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 |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Levels-Of-Integration/Levels%20Of%20Integration.html"> |
| Levels of Integration</a></b> Jim Amsden (OTI) March 25, 2001 |
| <br> |
| The types of problems web application developers face today require the |
| use of a diverse set of tools that operate in many domains. In order to |
| provide flexible tool integration, a tool integration platform must allow |
| tool developers to target different levels or integration based on the desired |
| level of investment, time to market, and specific tool needs. Each integration |
| level determines how a tool must behave, and what end users can expect as |
| a result. This article defines the different levels of tool integration |
| supported by Eclipse, and gives an overview of how they work. </font> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Accessibility/accessibility.html">Designing |
| Accessible Plug-ins in Eclipse</a></strong> Tod Creasey (IBM) May 20, 2003<br> |
| Accessibility for the disabled is now a priority in application development |
| as advances in techniques and support within operating systems have now |
| made this possible. This article covers the Eclipse accessibility support, |
| general tips for creating accessible plug-ins, and the types of disabilities |
| that the Eclipse accessibility support assists. This is all illustrated |
| using an example of making a view accessible.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Monitor/monitorArticle.html">Building |
| administrative applications in Eclipse</a></b> Doina Klinger and Chris |
| Markes (IBM) November 12, 2004</font><br> |
| Eclipse is most commonly used as a platform for tools that allow the |
| user to construct or assemble an end product out of development resources. |
| It is less usual to use Eclipse as an administrative tool for monitoring |
| existing runtime systems or applications. This article will describe some |
| of the issues that arise in this case and illustrate possible solutions. |
| It will show you can build an Eclipse perspective dedicated to the monitoring |
| task. Running processes are shown in a dedicated view which always reflects |
| their current state. You can start/stop the process, manage connections, |
| invoke operations that the server exposes, examine server output and view |
| events generated by the running applications.</td> |
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| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"><a name="core">Core</a></font></b></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Resource-deltas/resource-deltas.html">How |
| You've Changed! Responding to resource changes in the Eclipse workspace |
| (Revised for 3.0) |
| </a></strong> John Arthorne (OTI) November 23, 2004<br> |
| Many tools and user interface elements are interested in processing resource |
| changes as they happen. For example, the task list wants to update new or |
| changed markers, the navigator wants to reflect added and deleted resources, |
| and the Java compiler wants to recompile modified Java files. Such notifications |
| are potentially costly to compute, manage and broadcast. The Eclipse Platform |
| resource model includes a series of mechanisms for efficiently notifying |
| clients of resource changes. This article outlines these facilities and |
| gives some examples of their use.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Builders/builders.html">Project |
| Natures and Builders (Revised for 3.0)</a> </strong> John Arthorne (IBM) |
| November 23, 2004<br> |
| This article discusses two central mechanisms that are associated with projects |
| in an Eclipse workspace. The first of these is incremental project builders, |
| which create some built state based on the project contents, and then keep |
| that built state synchronized as the project contents change. The second |
| is project natures, which define and manage the association between a given |
| project and a particular plug-in or feature. The purpose and uses of builders |
| and natures will be described in detail, and working examples will be provided |
| to highlight the finer details of implementing them for your own plug-in. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Plug-in-architecture/plugin_architecture.html">Notes |
| on the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture</a> </strong> Azad Bolour (Bolour Computing) |
| July 3, 2003<br> |
| Eclipse plug-ins embody an architectural pattern for building an application |
| from constituent parts. This article presents an in-depth view of the participant |
| roles and collaborations of this architectural pattern, as they exist in |
| an instance of the Eclipse workbench. The goal is to provide an understanding |
| of plug-ins, and of how plug-in extensions are defined and processed, independently |
| of the mechanics of using the Eclipse workbench to produce plug-ins.</font></td> |
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| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Debug<a name="debug"></a></font></b></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Launch-Framework/launch.html"> |
| We Have Lift-off: The Launching Framework in Eclipse</a></b> Joe Szurszewski |
| (IBM) January 8, 2003<br> |
| The ability to launch (run or debug) code under development is fundamental |
| to an IDE. But because Eclipse is more of a tools platform than a tool itself, |
| Eclipse's launching capabilities depend entirely on the current set of installed |
| plug-ins. This article describes the API available to build launching plug-ins |
| and works through developing an example launcher using this API.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Java-launch/launching-java.html"> |
| Launching Java Applications Programmatically</a></b> Darin Wright (IBM) |
| August 26, 2003<br> |
| Application developers require the ability to run and debug code in order to |
| test it. Tool developers require the ability to launch Java applications that |
| assist in application development - for example, starting and stopping a web |
| server on which servlets, JSPs, and HTML pages can be tested; or launching a |
| VM on which scrapbook evaluations can be performed. This article focuses on |
| the high level API provided by the Java launching plug-in that tool developers |
| can leverage for the programmatic launching of local Java applications.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Debugger/how-to.html"> |
| How to write an Eclipse debugger</a></strong> Darin Wright (IBM) and Bjorn |
| Freeman-Benson (Predictable Software) August 27, 2004<br> |
| One of the major tasks of adding a new language to an Eclipse-based IDE is debugging support. A debugger needs to start and stop the |
| program being debugged, suspend and resume, single-step, manage breakpoints and watch points, |
| and so on. This article explains the Eclipse Platform debug framework and steps through a |
| simple, yet illustrative, example of adding debug support for a new language.</font></td> |
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| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Help<a name="help"></a></font></b></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Online%20Help%20for%202_0/help1.htm"> |
| Help - Part 1: Contributing a Little Help (Revised for 2.0)</a></b> Greg |
| Adams (OTI) and Dorian Birsan (IBM) August 9, 2002<br> |
| The Eclipse Platform’s help system defines two extension points (<code>"toc" |
| </code>and<code> "contexts"</code>) that allow individual plug-ins to contribute |
| online help and context-sensitive help for their components. In this article |
| we will investigate the <code>"toc"</code> extension point and how you can |
| use it to contribute documentation for your plug-in.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-SWT-OpenGL/opengl.html"> |
| Using OpenGL with SWT</a></b> |
| Bo Majewski (Cisco) |
| April 15, 2005 |
| <br> |
| OpenGL is a vendor-neutral, multi-platform standard for creating |
| high-performance 2D and 3D graphics. Hardware and software implementations |
| exist on various operating systems, including Windows, Linux and |
| MacOS. OpenGL may be used to render simple 2D charts or complex 3D games. This |
| article describes an experimental Eclipse plug-in that facilitates the use |
| of OpenGL for drawing onto SWT widgets. A short history and overview of |
| OpenGL is presented, followed by an example application. |
| </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Understanding%20Layouts/Understanding%20Layouts.htm">Understanding |
| Layouts in SWT (Revised for 2.0)</a></b><a href="preferences/preferences.htm"> </a> |
| <span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc509864523'><span |
| style='mso-bookmark:_Toc496069418'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: |
| EN-US'>Carolyn MacLeod (OTI)</span></span></span>, <span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc509864523'><span |
| style='mso-bookmark:_Toc496069418'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: |
| EN-US'>Shantha Ramachandran</span></span></span> (OTI) April 24, 2002</font> <br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> <span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc509864523'><span |
| style='mso-bookmark:_Toc496069418'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: |
| EN-US'>When writing applications in SWT, you may need to use <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: |
| normal'>layouts</i> to give your windows a specific look. A layout controls the |
| position and size of children in a <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Composite</i>. |
| Layout classes are subclasses of the abstract class <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: |
| normal'>Layout</i>. This article shows you how to work with standard layouts, |
| and write your own custom layout class.</span></span></span></font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="swt-design-2/swt-design-2.html">SWT: |
| The Standard Widget Toolkit - Part 2</a></b> Carolyn MacLeod (OTI) |
| and Steve Northover (OTI) November 27, 2001</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| SWT uses operating system resources to deliver its native graphics and widget |
| functionality. Allocating and freeing operating system resources is traditionally |
| an area of programming that is error prone. Languages that include garbage |
| collection, such as the Java language, relieve the programmer from the |
| burden of managing memory, but not from the allocation and freeing of operating |
| system resources. This article discusses the simple strategy used by SWT |
| to help application designers manage operating system resources. </font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="StyledText%201/article1.html"> |
| Getting Your Feet Wet with the SWT StyledText Widget (Revised for 3.0)</a></b> Lynne |
| Kues (OTI) and Knut Radloff (OTI) </font>July 19, 2004<br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| The StyledText widget is a customizable widget that can be used to display |
| and edit text with different colors and font styles. This article presents |
| an overview of the concepts, issues, and rules that you should be aware |
| of when using the StyledText widget.</font></font></td> |
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| <td> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="StyledText%202/article2.html">Into |
| the Deep End of SWT StyledText Widget (Revised for 2.0)</a></b> Lynne |
| Kues (OTI) and Knut Radloff (OTI) September 18, 2002</font><br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> This is the second |
| of two articles on the SWT StyledText widget. This article dives into |
| some of the more advanced concepts of StyledText and builds on the previous |
| article </font></font><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">"Getting |
| Your Feet Wet With the SWT StyledText Widget". </font><br> |
| </p></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="SWT%20Color%20Model/swt-color-model.htm"> |
| SWT Color Model</a></b> James Moody (OTI) and Carolyn MacLeod (OTI) |
| April 24, 2001</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| The combination of platforms, display devices and color depth makes providing |
| an easy to use yet powerful and portable color model an interesting challenge. |
| In this article we will examine the color management models of Windows and |
| X/Motif and then dig into the makings of the SWT color model and its implications |
| for client code. </font></font> </td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html"> |
| SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit - Part 1</a></b> Steve Northover |
| (OTI) March 22, 2001</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| SWT is the software component that delivers native widget functionality |
| for the Eclipse platform in an operating system independent manner. It is |
| analogous to AWT/Swing in Java with a difference - SWT uses native widgets. |
| This article is the first in series of articles that discuss the SWT widget |
| toolkit. This article discusses the low level implementation techniques |
| used to implement SWT on different platforms. Examples are drawn from the |
| windows and Motif implementations. </font></font> </td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-ActiveX%20Support%20in%20SWT/ActiveX%20Support%20in%20SWT.html"> |
| ActiveX Support in SWT</a></b> Veronika Irvine (OTI) March 22, |
| 2001</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> OLE |
| Documents, such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, and ActiveX Controls such |
| as Internet Explorer are COM objects that can be embedded into other applications |
| running on a Microsoft Windows platform. This article provides an overview |
| of OLE and how to integrate OLE Documents and ActiveX Controls into an application |
| using SWT. </font></font><br> </td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget/Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget.htm"> |
| Creating Your Own Widgets using SWT</a></b> Steve Northover (OTI) & |
| Carolyn MacLeod (OTI) March 22, 2001</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| When writing applications, you typically use the standard widgets provided |
| by SWT. On occasion, you will need to extend the set of base widgets by |
| creating your own custom widgets. For example, you might want to add a new |
| type of widget not provided by the standard widgets, or extend the functionality |
| of an existing widget. This article explains the different SWT extension |
| strategies and shows you how to use them. </font></font><br> </td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-SWT-graphics/SWT_graphics.html">Graphics |
| Context - Quick on the draw</a></strong> Joe Winchester (IBM) July 3, 2003<br> |
| The package <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics</code> contains classes that |
| allows management of graphics resources. Graphics can be drawn on anything |
| that implements <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Drawable, </code>which includes |
| <code>org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control</code> and <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image</code>. |
| The class <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.GC </code>encapsulates all of the |
| drawing API, including how to draw lines and shapes, draw text and images |
| and fill shapes. This article shows how to use a GC to draw onto an Image, |
| or onto a control through its paintEvent callback. The Canvas control, specifically |
| designed for drawing operations, has a number of constructor style bits |
| that allow you to determine when and how painting occurs, and the article |
| shows how to use these.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b> |
| <a href="Article-SWT-DND/DND-in-SWT.html">Drag and Drop - Adding Drag and Drop to an SWT Application</a></b> Veronika Irvine (IBM) August 25, 2003<br> |
| Drag and drop provides a quick and easy mechanism for users to re-order and transfer |
| data within an application and between applications. This article is an overview of how |
| to implement Drag and Drop and Clipboard data transfers within an SWT |
| application.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-SWT-images/graphics-resources.html">Taking |
| a look at SWT Images</a></strong> Joe Winchester (IBM) September 10, 2003<br> |
| SWT's Image class can be used to display images in a GUI. The most common |
| source of images is to load from a standard file format such as GIF, JPEG, |
| PNG, or BMP. Some controls, including Buttons and TreeItems, are able to |
| display an Image directly through the setImage(Image) method, but any control's |
| paint event allows images to be drawn through the callback's graphic context. |
| SWT's ImageData class represents the raw data making up an SWT Image and |
| determines the color for each pixel coordinate. This article shows the correct |
| uses of ImageData and Image, shows how to load images from files, and how |
| to achieve graphic effects such as transparency, alpha blending, animation, |
| scaling, and custom cursors.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-small-cup-of-swt/pocket-PC.html">A |
| small cup of SWT</a></strong> Christophe Cornu (IBM) September 19, 2003<br> |
| Are you interested in developing applications for the Microsoft Pocket PC? |
| Are you a desktop developer curious about embedded user interfaces? A well-built |
| embedded application is both user and resource friendly. User expectations |
| are high, but resources are very limited. This article contains a bag of |
| hints, tricks, and recipes for developing SWT apps on the Pocket PC.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Image-Viewer/Image_viewer.html">A |
| Basic Image Viewer</a></strong> Chengdong Li (University of Kentucky) March |
| 15, 2004<br> |
| This article shows how to extend SWT <code>Canvas</code> to implement a mini image viewer plug-in using Java2D |
| transforms. The |
| extended image canvas can be used to scroll and zoom large images, and can also |
| be extended to apply other transforms. The implementation is based on SWT and |
| the non-UI portions of AWT. The plug-in has been tested on Windows, Linux GTK, and Mac |
| OS X Carbon with Eclipse 2.1 or better.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-SWT-browser-widget/browser.html">Viewing |
| HTML pages with SWT Browser widget</a></strong> Christophe Cornu (IBM) August |
| 26, 2004<br> |
| This article explains how to add HTML viewing capability to an SWT application. The Browser widget provides an easy way to integrate rich HTML content into your application.</font></td> |
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| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Workbench |
| & JFace<a name="ui"></a></font></b></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Folding-in-Eclipse-Text-Editors/folding.html">Folding |
| in Eclipse Text Editors</a></b> Prashant Deva March 11, 2005<br> |
| Starting with release 3.0, Eclipse allows folding in its text |
| editor. In this article, I explain the new projection infrastructure |
| introduced in the JFace Text framework and show how to extend the XML |
| Editor example provided with Eclipse to allow folding of text.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html" target="_top">Eclipse |
| User Interface Guidelines, Version 2.1</a></b> Nick Edgar, Kevin Haaland, |
| Jin Li, and Kimberley Peter (IBM) February 2004</font><br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> User Interface Guidelines "best practices" |
| document intended for use by designers and implementors of an Eclipse user |
| interface extension. (<a href="Article-UI-Guidelines/v200202/Index.html" target="_top">Earlier |
| version of the guidelines.</a>)</font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><a href="Article-Field-Editors/field_editors.html"><strong>Simplifying |
| Preference Pages with Field Editors</strong></a> Ryan Cooper (OTI) August |
| 21, 2002</font><br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1>Even |
| though preference pages can be simple to program, you can spend a lot of |
| time getting them "just right." Field editors make this task faster |
| and easier by providing the behavior for storing, loading, and validating |
| preferences. Field editors also define some of the behavior for grouping |
| and laying out widgets on a preference page.</font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="treeviewer-cg/TreeViewerArticle.htm">How |
| to use the JFace Tree Viewer</a></b><a href="preferences/preferences.htm"> </a> |
| Chris Grindstaff (Applied Reasoning) May 2, 2002</font> <br> <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> |
| <span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc509864523'><span |
| style='mso-bookmark:_Toc496069418'>The goal of this article is to teach you how |
| to use TreeViewers in your Eclipse plug-ins or stand-alone JFace/SWT applications. |
| We’ll start with a simple example and progressively add functionality. |
| </span></span></font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Preferences/preferences.htm">Preferences |
| in the Eclipse Workbench UI (Revised for 2.0)</a></b> Tod Creasey (OTI) |
| August 15, 2002</font><br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> In the Eclipse Platform |
| plug-in developers define preference pages for their plug-ins for use in |
| the Workbench Preferences Dialog. This article explains when to use a preference |
| and some of the features the Eclipse Platform provides to support preferences. |
| </font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="viewArticle/ViewArticle2.html"> |
| Creating an Eclipse View</a></b> Dave Springgay (OTI) November 2, 2001</font> |
| <br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> In the Eclipse Platform |
| a view is typically used to navigate a hierarchy of information, open an |
| editor, or display properties for the active editor. In this article |
| the design and implementation of a view will be examined in detail. |
| You'll learn how to create a simple view based on SWT, and a more advanced |
| view using the JFace viewer hierarchy. We'll also look at ways to |
| achieve good integration with many of the existing features in the workbench, |
| such as the window menu and toolbar, view linking, workbench persistence |
| and action extension.</font></font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-JFace%20Wizards/wizardArticle.html"> |
| Creating JFace Wizards</a></b> Doina Klinger (IBM) December 16, 2002<br> |
| This article shows you how to implement a wizard using the JFace toolkit |
| and how to contribute your wizard to the Eclipse workbench. A wizard whose |
| page structure changes according to user input is implemented to demonstrate |
| the flexibility of wizard support.</font></td> |
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| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b> <a href="Article-action-contribution/Contributing%20Actions%20to%20the%20Eclipse%20Workbench.html">Contributing |
| Actions to the Eclipse Workbench</a></b> </font>Simon Arsenault <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1> |
| (OTI)</font> October 18, 2001<br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> The Eclipse Platform |
| is an open and extensible platform. This article explains in detail how |
| the Workbench can be extended to add new actions and provides guidance to |
| the plug-in developers on how they can design for extensibility.</font></font><br> </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="using-perspectives/PerspectiveArticle.html"> |
| Using Perspectives in the Eclipse UI</a></b> Dave Springgay (OTI) August |
| 27, 2001</font> <br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> In the Eclipse Platform |
| a Perspective determines the visible actions and views within a window. |
| Perspectives also go well beyond this by providing mechanisms for task oriented |
| interaction with resources in the Eclipse Platform, multi-tasking and information |
| filtering. In this article the concepts behind perspectives are examined. |
| The process for perspective definition, extension and instantiation will |
| also be covered in detail with coding examples and sample scenarios.</font></font> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Using%20Images%20In%20Eclipse/Using%20Images%20In%20Eclipse.html"> |
| Using Images in the Eclipse UI (Revised for 2.0)</a></b> John Arthorne (OTI) |
| September 12, 2002<br> |
| Managing images in a large graphical application can be a daunting task. |
| Since modern operating systems such as Windows only support a small number |
| of images in memory at once, an applications icons and background images |
| must be carefully managed and sometimes shared between widgets. This article |
| describes the image management facilities provided by the Eclipse Platform, |
| along with some best practice guidelines to keep in mind when writing your |
| own Eclipse UI plug-ins. We assume the reader already has a basic understanding |
| of Eclipse, the UI extension points defined by the Eclipse Platform, and |
| the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT).</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Mark%20My%20Words/Mark%20My%20Words.html"> |
| Mark My Words</a></b> Dejan Glozic (IBM) and Jeff McAffer (OTI) April |
| 1, 2001</font> <br> |
| <font face="arial,helvetica,geneva"><font size=-1> Eclipse workbench has |
| a central mechanism for managing resource annotations. They are called markers. |
| In this article, you will learn how to use markers to mark-up resources |
| as well as how to define your own marker types and enhance the Tasks view |
| to handle them in a special way. </font></font> </td> |
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| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Decorators/decorators.html"> |
| Understanding Decorators in Eclipse</a> </b>Balaji Krish-Sampath (IBM) January |
| 16, 2003</font> <br> |
| Decorators, as the name suggests, are used for adorning/annotating resources |
| with useful information. Decorators can be used by plug-ins to convey more |
| information about a resource and other objects displayed in different workbench |
| views. This article, with the help of a simple plug-in example, will |
| illustrate the steps involved in decorating resources, along with some best |
| practice approaches for decorating resources. Finally, we will discuss performance |
| issues that may arise when enabling decorators, and briefly go over the |
| new Lightweight decorators found in Eclipse 2.1.</td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Properties-View/properties-view.html">Take |
| control of your properties</a> </strong> Dicky Johan (Broadvision) May 20, |
| 2003<br> |
| The Eclipse workbench provides a properties view which is used to view (and/or |
| edit) properties of a selected item. In this article, you will learn how |
| to use the properties view to dynamically modify the properties of a GUI |
| button. </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Table-viewer/table_viewer.html">Building |
| and delivering a table editor with SWT/JFace</a></strong> Laurent Gauthier |
| (Mirasol Op'nWorks) July 3, 2003<br> |
| The JFace API provides several classes that can be used to build editable |
| table views. In this article, we present a fairly extensive example that |
| exercises the JFace and SWT classes needed to implement a table with cell |
| editors for check-boxes, free text and combo-boxes. We also show how to |
| package and deliver the classes into a stand-alone (non-Eclipse) Java application.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b> <a href="Article-Workbench-DND/drag_drop.html">Drag |
| and Drop in the Eclipse UI</a></b> John Arthorne (IBM) August |
| 25, 2003<br> |
| In this article, we discuss the drag and drop facilities provided by JFace and |
| the Eclipse platform UI. After reading this, you will know how to add drag and |
| drop support to your own Eclipse views, and how that support will interact with |
| the standard views in the Eclipse platform. Along the way, we'll also discuss |
| that keyboard relative of drag and drop: cut and paste. You'll learn that putting |
| your own custom objects on the clipboard is easy once you've figured out the |
| basics of drag and drop. This article is intended to be read as a companion |
| to the <a href="Article-SWT-DND/DND-in-SWT.html">SWT |
| drag and drop article</a>.</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-Mutatis-mutandis/overlay-pages.html">Mutatis |
| mutandis - Using Preference Pages as Property Pages</a></strong> Berthold |
| Daum (bdaum industrial communications) October 24, 2003<br> |
| A common problem in the implementation of applications is the implementation of |
| project-specific properties that override workbench-wide preferences on project or file level. The |
| naive approach is to implement these pages from scratch. However, writing the |
| same code twice is a boring task and leads to increased maintenance efforts. In |
| this article we show how existing preferences pages (with or without field |
| editors) can be easily converted into pages that can act as both preference and |
| property pages. We demonstrate this by implementing the abstract class <code>FieldEditorOverlayPage</code> |
| providing the necessary functionality.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Concurrency/jobs-api.html"> |
| On the Job: The Eclipse Jobs API</a></b> Michael Valenta (IBM) September |
| 20, 2004<br> |
| This article looks at the new Jobs API available as part of Eclipse 3.0<b>.</b> |
| It describes the main portions of the Jobs API and the use of scheduling |
| rules. It also describes some changes to Eclipse resource management including |
| how the Resources plug-in integrates with the new API. Finally, it describes |
| some new UI functionality that has been added to provide feedback to users |
| about jobs that are run in the background.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Team<a name="team"></a></font></b></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
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| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><a href="Article-CVS-branching/eclipse_branch.html"><strong>Branching |
| with Eclipse and CVS</strong></a> Paul Glezen </font><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1>(IBM) |
| July 3, 2003<br> |
| This article presents a brief branch and merge scenario designed to quickly |
| illustrate some branch and merge features of Eclipse's CVS integration. |
| I assume the reader already appreciates the value of branching and merging |
| in a source control environment. Little is said to justify it here. Rather, |
| a step-by-step scenario illustrates the common branch and merge operations |
| using Eclipse-based IDEs with CVS as the source control mechanism.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Update<a name="update"></a></font></b></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP> <img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><a href="Article-Update/keeping-up-to-date.html"><strong>How |
| To Keep Up To Date</strong></a> Dejan Glozic (IBM) and Dorian Birsan (IBM) |
| August 27, 2003<br> |
| This article shows you how to create and publish bundles of plug-ins (called |
| features) to an update site so that customers can download and install them |
| directly into Eclipse using the Eclipse update manager. This has many advantages |
| over the low tech way of delivering new or updated plug-ins in a zip file that |
| someone manually unzips into the directory where Eclipse is installed.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">Beyond |
| the Eclipse Platform<a name="other"></a></font></b></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP> <img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><strong><a href="Article-WTP-Persisting-EMF/persisting.html">Persisting |
| EMF models with WTP</a></strong> Daniel Rohe October 10, 2005<br> |
| This article will guide you through an example where an EMF model is created |
| without serialization and the serialization is done with the framework from |
| the WTP plugin org.eclipse.wst.common.emf. |
| </font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-VE-Custom-Widget/customwidget.html"> |
| Extending The Visual Editor</a></b> |
| Dave Orme (db4objects), Gili Mendel (IBM), Joe Winchester (IBM) |
| June 20, 2005 |
| <br> |
| This tutorial |
| shows how to extend the Visual Editor to support a custom widget. |
| It covers topics such as adding to the Visual Editor's palette, |
| building a BeanInfo class, and working with |
| EMF .override files to |
| introduce custom editor behavior. |
| </font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-GEF-EMF/gef-emf.html"> |
| Using GEF with EMF</a></b> |
| Chris Aniszczyk (IBM) |
| June 8, 2005 |
| <br> |
| The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) provides a framework for |
| creating visual editors while being model agnostic. In most cases, people |
| bring their own model which tend to be based on Plain Old Java Objects |
| (POJOs). An alternative using POJOs is the Eclipse Modeling Framework |
| (EMF), which provides many features for manipulating models that aren't |
| found in POJOs. The purpose of this article is to build upon the shapes |
| example provided by GEF using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and to |
| provide an introduction using EMF based models in GEF based editors. |
| </font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Using%20EMF/using-emf.html"> |
| Using EMF</a></b> Catherine Griffin (IBM) December 9, 2002 (updated |
| May 2003 for EMF 1.1)<br> |
| This article introduces EMF, the Eclipse Modelling Framework, and will help |
| you get started using EMF in your own Eclipse plug-ins.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-JET/jet_tutorial1.html"> |
| JET Tutorial Part 1 (Introduction to JET)</a></b> Remko Popma (Azzurri |
| Ltd.) July 30, 2003 (updated May 2004 for EMF 2.0)<br> |
| Generating source code can save you time in your projects and can reduce |
| the amount of tedious redundant programming. Generating source code can |
| be powerful, but the program that writes the code can quickly become very |
| complex and hard to understand. One way to reduce complexity and increase |
| readability is to use templates. The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) project |
| contains two very powerful tools for generating source code: JET (Java Emitter |
| Templates) and JMerge (Java Merge). With JET you can use a JSP-like syntax |
| (actually a subset of the JSP syntax) that makes it easy to write templates |
| that express the code you want to generate. JET is a generic template engine |
| that can be used to generate SQL, XML, Java source code and other output |
| from templates. </font>In this article you will learn how to create JET |
| templates, how to use the JET Nature and JET Builder to automatically translate |
| templates into Java classes, and how to use these classes to generate source |
| code. This article also provides a short reference to the JET syntax.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-JET2/jet_tutorial2.html"> |
| JET Tutorial Part 2 (Write Code that Writes Code)</a></b> Remko Popma |
| (Azzurri Ltd.) August 26, 2003 (updated May 2004 for EMF 2.0)<br> |
| In Part 2 of this JET (Java Emitter Templates) tutorial, we will take a |
| look at the JET engine API. You will learn how to write plug-ins that use |
| the classes in the JET package to generate Java source code. As a real-world |
| example, we will create a plug-in that takes user input and generates a |
| Typesafe Enumeration class. The generated source code is based on a JET |
| template that can be distributed with the plug-in, allowing users of the |
| plug-in to customize the generated code by editing the template. This article |
| also provides a short reference to the JET API.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-GEF-Draw2d/GEF-Draw2d.html"> |
| Display a UML Diagram using Draw2D</a></b> Daniel Lee (IBM) August |
| 25, 2003<br> |
| The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) ships with a painting and layout plug-in |
| called Draw2D. Draw2D provides figures and layout managers which form the |
| graphical layer of a GEF application. This article focuses only on the use |
| of Draw2D to render a simple UML class diagram. While Draw2D can be used |
| for standalone purposes, it is not an editing framework. Most applications |
| will use the GEF plug-in as the editing layer.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b> <a href="Article-GEF-dnd/GEF-dnd.html">Using |
| Native Drag and Drop with GEF</a></b> Eric Bordeau (IBM) August |
| 25, 2003<br> |
| Native drag and drop provides the ability to drag data from one GUI object to another GUI |
| object, which could potentially be in another application. GEF allows access to the operating |
| system's underlying drag and drop infrastructure through SWT. This article will provide an in-depth look at GEF's drag and drop functionality and show some simple |
| examples of how to take advantage of this API.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-GEF-editor/gef-schema-editor.html"> |
| Building a Database Schema Diagram Editor with GEF</a></b> Phil Zoio |
| (Realsolve Solutions) September 27, 2004<br> |
| GEF is a very powerful framework for visually creating and editing models. With a small initial investment, |
| even the relative Eclipse novice can be quickly up and running, building applications with graphical editing capabilities. |
| To illustrate, this article uses a relational database schema diagram editor with a deliberately |
| simplified underlying model, but with enough bells and whistles to show some of the interesting features of GEF at work.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-EMF-goes-RCP/rcp.html"> |
| EMF goes RCP</a></b> Marcelo Paternostro (IBM) October 12, 2004<br> |
| This article explains how you can use EMF to generate RCP applications. It assumes |
| that you have already used EMF, or have at least read the articles and references |
| available on the documentation section of the EMF web site.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-Rule%20Modeling%20With%20EMF/article.html"> |
| Modeling Rule-Based Systems with EMF</a></b> Chaur G. Wu |
| November 30, 2004<br> |
| There are examples of meta-models defined in ECore for modeling objects and |
| relational data. However, not much has been said about how to model rules. This |
| article will define a meta-model in ECore for modeling rule-based systems. We |
| will then use the meta-model to model the solution of a logical problem. Then |
| we will compose some JET templates and generate code from the model, run the |
| generated code through a rule engine and see that the logical problem is |
| correctly solved.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td align=RIGHT valign=TOP><img src="images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td> |
| <td><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size=-1><b><a href="Article-GEF-diagram-editor/shape.html"> |
| A Shape Diagram Editor</a></b> Bo Majewski (Cisco) December 8, 2004<br> |
| Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) provides a powerful foundation for creating |
| editors for visual editing of arbitrary models. Its effectiveness lies in |
| a modular build, fitting use of design patterns, and decoupling of components |
| that comprise a full, working editor. To a newcomer, the sheer number and |
| variety of concepts and techniques present in GEF may feel intimidating. However, |
| once learned and correctly used, they help to develop highly scalable and |
| easy to maintain software. This article aims to provide a gentle yet comprehensive |
| introduction to GEF. It describes a shape diagram editor - a small, fully |
| functional test case of core concepts.</font></td> |
| </tr> |
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