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Installing and Updating Plug-ins

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Java

Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Javaâ„¢ Applications

by Eric Newcomer

Publisher : Addison Wesley Professional

Pub Date :October 11, 2005

ISBN : 0321334612

Pages : 552

The Eclipse Series

Foreword by John Weigand

Foreword by Jeff Norris

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

Section 1.1. Eclipse

Section 1.2. The Eclipse Rich Client Platform

Section 1.3. Eclipse RCP Over the Years

Section 1.4. Uses of RCP

Section 1.5. Summary

Section 2.1. A Community of Plug-ins

Section 2.2. Inside Plug-ins

Section 2.3. Putting a System Together

Section 2.4. OSGi Framework

Section 2.5. The Runtime

Section 2.6. SWT

Section 2.7. JFace

Section 2.8. UI Workbench

Section 2.9. Summary

Part II: RCP by Example

Section 3.1. What Is Hyperbola?

Section 3.2. The Evolution of Hyperbola

Section 3.3. Development Environment Installation

Section 3.4. Target Setup

Section 3.5. Checkpoint

Section 3.6. Sample Code

Section 3.7. Learning by Example

Section 3.8. Summary

Section 4.1. Hyperbola Hello World

Section 4.2. Tour of the Code

Section 4.3. Running and Debugging

Section 4.4. Summary

Section 5.1. Continuing from the Shell

Section 5.2. Adding a Contacts View

Section 5.3. The Chat Model

Section 5.4. Filling in the Contacts View

Section 5.5. Adding Images

Section 5.6. Summary

Section 5.7. Pointers

Section 6.1. Adding to the Menus and Toolbar

Section 6.2. Adding to the Status Line

Section 6.3. System Tray Integration

Section 6.4. Summary

Section 6.5. Pointers

Section 7.1. Views and Editors

Section 7.2. Defining the Chat Editor

Section 7.3. Checkpoint

Section 7.4. Summary

Section 7.5. Pointers

Section 8.1. Defining the Hyperbola Product

Section 8.2. Window Images

Section 8.3. Customizing the Launcher

Section 8.4. Splash Screen

Section 8.5. About Information

Section 8.6. Summary

Section 9.1. Exporting Hyperbola

Section 9.2. Exporting for Other Platforms

Section 9.3. Summary

Section 9.4. Pointers

Section 10.1. Integrating a Third-Party Library

Section 10.2. Refactoring the Model

Section 10.3. Updating the UI

Section 10.4. Chatting with Eliza

Section 10.5. Summary

Section 11.1. Adding the Login Dialog

Section 11.2. Remembering Login Settings

Section 11.3. Adding Auto-login Preferences

Section 11.4. Summary

Section 12.1. Defining Commands

Section 12.2. Checkpoint

Section 12.3. Adding Key Bindings for Workbench Actions

Section 12.4. Key Configurations

Section 12.5. Keys Preference Page

Section 12.6. Summary

Section 13.1. Adding to the Target Platform

Section 13.2. Getting the Help Plug-ins

Section 13.3. Configuring the Help Plug-ins

Section 13.4. Add the Help Action

Section 13.5. Adding Help Content

Section 13.6. Help Content Structure

Section 13.7. Infopops or F1 Help

Section 13.8. Exporting Plug-ins with Help

Section 13.9. Summary

Section 13.10. Pointers

Section 14.1. Getting Update Plug-ins

Section 14.2. Configuring the Update Plug-ins

Section 14.3. Defining Features

Section 14.4. Branding Features

Section 14.5. Adding Update Actions

Section 14.6. Automatic Updates

Section 14.7. Summary

Part III: The Workbench

Section 15.1. What Is an Advisor?

Section 15.2. WorkbenchAdvisor

Section 15.3. WorkbenchWindowAdvisor

Section 15.4. ActionBarAdvisor

Section 15.5. Workbench Overview

Section 15.6. Summary

Section 16.1. Perspectives

Section 16.2. Views and Editors

Section 16.3. Multiple Workbench Windows

Section 16.4. Drag and Drop with Editors

Section 16.5. Summary

Section 17.1. Overview

Section 17.2. Declarative Actions in Hyperbola

Section 17.3. Standard Workbench Actions

Section 17.4. Retargetable Actions

Section 17.5. Consolidating Declarative Actions

Section 17.6. Toolbar Action Tricks

Section 17.7. Adding Contributions to the Status Line

Section 17.8. Reporting Progress

Section 17.9. Summary

Section 18.1. Customization Defined

Section 18.2. Customizing a Workbench Window

Section 18.3. Custom Window Shapes

Section 18.4. Summary

Section 19.1. Presentations

Section 19.2. Sample Presentations

Section 19.3. Writing a Presentation

Section 19.4. Example Presentation

Section 19.5. Summary

Part IV: Development Processes

Section 20.1. Plug-ins as JARs

Section 20.2. Bundling by Injection

Section 20.3. Bundling by Wrapping

Section 20.4. Bundling by Reference

Section 20.5. Troubleshooting Classloading Problems

Section 20.6. Summary

Section 21.1. Updateâ€™s Roles

Section 21.2. Features

Section 21.3. Creating and Managing Update Sites

Section 21.4. Example: Dynamic Content Handling

Section 21.5. Summary

Section 21.6. Pointers

Section 22.1. Making Hyperbola Dynamic

Section 22.2. Dynamic Challenges

Section 22.3. Dynamic-awareness

Section 22.4. Dynamic-enablement

Section 22.5. Summary

Section 23.1. Sample Code

Section 23.2. The Scenario

Section 23.3. Product Configurations

Section 23.4. Hyperbola Product Configurations

Section 23.5. Code Structure

Section 23.6. Designing a Platform

Section 23.7. RCP-friendly Plug-ins

Section 23.8. Summary

Section 24.1. What Is PDE Build?

Section 24.2. Plug-in build.properties

Section 24.3. Feature build.properties

Section 24.4. Setting Up a Hyperbola Builder

Section 24.5. Running the Builder

Section 24.6. Building Products

Section 24.7. Cross-platform Building

Section 24.8. Tweaking the Build

Section 24.9. Summary

Section 25.1. Archives

Section 25.2. Native Installers

Section 25.3. Java Web Start (JNLP)

Section 25.4. Update Sites

Section 25.5. Initializing the Install

Section 25.6. Pre-initialized Configurations

Section 25.7. Multi-user Install Scenarios

Section 25.8. Summary

Section 25.9. Pointers

Part V: Reference

Section 26.1. OSGi and the Eclipse Runtime

Section 26.2. The Shape of Plug-ins

Section 26.3. Fragments

Section 26.4. Version Numbering

Section 26.5. Services

Section 26.6. Singletons

Section 26.7. Bundle Lifecycle

Section 26.8. Early Activation

Section 26.9. Auto-activation

Section 26.10. Classloading

Section 26.11. Data Areas

Section 26.12. Putting It All Together

Section 26.13. Summary

Section 27.1. Where to Find Plug-ins

Section 27.2. Eclipse Platform Plug-ins

Section 27.3. Product Introduction

Section 27.4. Resources

Section 27.5. Text Editing

Section 27.6. Consoles

Section 27.7. Variables

Section 27.8. Outline and Property Views

Section 27.9. Forms

Section 27.10. Browser

Section 27.11. Summary

Next: Debugging

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