Eclipse Plug-in Development Training

The vogella GmbH company actively supports the Eclipse framework. Our employees are leaders of the Eclipse project, and are actively involved in the latest developments.
Take advantage of this expertise and get this online training.

  • Topic: Eclipse IDE extensions
  • Language: English
  • Fee first year: €400.00 excl. VAT
  • Each following year: €100.00 excl. VAT
  • Content:
  • Features:
    • >600 pages of script
    • 4 instructional videos
    • 115 hands-on exercises
    • continuous updates
    • one year access
    • reduced price all following years

Why this training?

Overview

  • Watch explanation and coding videos recorded by our experts
  • Get access to comprehensive and coordinated exercises
  • Report problems with the exercises via the integrated issue tracker and our experts will solve them within a short time
  • Learn to develop Eclipse Plug-ins professionally while using the latest API's
  • Get access to an extensive script with more than 700 pages, which covers every aspect of Eclipse Plug-in programming
  • Continuous updates of the training material are always available
  • Strengthen and deepen your knowledge through the development of a comprehensive training example
  • Compared to the vogella.com tutorials the training is guided, you find more material, you get access to videos and you can ask questions regarding the material to the vogella employees

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Which topics are covered?

Agenda

Introduction to Plug-in development

  • Components of the Eclipse platform
  • Important configuration files

Plug-in development and deployment

  • Creating plug-ins
  • Exporting plug-ins
  • Using features
  • Creating update sites

Using the application model

  • The concept of the dynamic application model
  • Accessing, updating and creating model elements
  • Using model fragments and processors

Using the Eclipse dependency injection framework

  • Introduction into dependency injection
  • Using DI in Eclipse e4 components
  • Using DI in Eclipse 3.x components
  • Accessing the Eclipse context via singletons

Extending the IDE with views

  • Contributing 3.x views
  • Contributing e4 view

User interface programming with SWT and JFace

  • Using SWT
  • Using JFace
  • Using Databinding
  • Implementing wizards and dialogs

Declarative styling with CSS

  • Introduction into CSS
  • Definition of styles and themes, colors and gradients
  • Styling specific widgets
  • Dynamic style switching at runtime
  • Using the CSS Spy tooling

Using commands

  • Contributing commands and menus
  • Using toolbars, view menus and popup menus

Platform services and interaction of components

  • Service overview
  • Part service
  • Model service
  • Selection service
  • Command and Handler service

Modularity for Eclipse 4 applications

  • Contributing to the application model
  • Static model contributions with fragments
  • Dynamic model contributions with processors

Internationalization (i18n)

  • Adding support for multiple languages
  • Usage of fragment projects
  • Outlook: translation services in Eclipse 4

Concurrent UIs

  • SWT threading
  • Avoiding invalid thread access
  • Asynchronous processing with the Eclipse API

Resources and markers

  • Integration with the problems view
  • Custom markers

Adapter pattern

  • Implementing the adapter pattern
  • Adaptable objects
  • Using the Properties and Outline view

Implementing custom text editors

  • Implementing a text editor
  • Reusing the generic editor framework
  • Providing syntax highlighting, hover, code complemetion and validation

Extending the Java development tools

  • Abstract Syntax Tree vs Java Model
  • Custom generators
  • Custom quick fixes
  • Custom templates
  • Using the refactoring API