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Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs

by Eric Newcomer

Publisher : Addison Wesley Professional

Pub Date :June 28, 2004

ISBN : 0321268385

Pages : 432

The Eclipse Series

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Eclipse Ecosystem

FAQ 1: What is Eclipse?

FAQ 2: What is the Eclipse Platform?

FAQ 3: Where did Eclipse come from?

FAQ 4: What is the Eclipse Foundation?

FAQ 5: How can my users tell where Eclipse ends and a product starts?

FAQ 6: What are Eclipse projects and technologies?

FAQ 7: How do I propose my own project?

FAQ 8: Who is building commercial products based on Eclipse?

FAQ 9: What open source projects are based on Eclipse?

FAQ 10: What academic research projects are based on Eclipse?

FAQ 11: Who uses Eclipse in the classroom?

FAQ 12: What is an Eclipse Innovation Grant?

FAQ 13: What Eclipse newsgroups are available?

FAQ 14: How do I get access to Eclipse newsgroups?

FAQ 15: What Eclipse mailing lists are available?

FAQ 16: What articles on Eclipse have been written?

FAQ 17: What books have been written on Eclipse?

FAQ 18: How do I report a bug in Eclipse?

FAQ 19: How can I search the existing list of bugs in Eclipse?

FAQ 20: What do I do if my feature request is ignored?

FAQ 21: Can I get my documentation in PDF form, please?

FAQ 22: Where do I find documentation for a given extension point?

FAQ 23: How is Eclipse licensed?

FAQ 24: Where do I get and install Eclipse?

FAQ 25: How do I run Eclipse?

FAQ 26: How do I increase the heap size available to Eclipse?

FAQ 27: Where can I find that elusive .log file?

FAQ 28: Does Eclipse run on any Linux distribution?

FAQ 29: I unzipped Eclipse, but it wonâ€™t start. Why?

FAQ 30: How do I upgrade Eclipse?

FAQ 31: How do I install new plug-ins?

FAQ 32: Can I install plug-ins outside the main install directory?

FAQ 33: How do I remove a plug-in?

FAQ 34: How do I find out what plug-ins have been installed?

FAQ 35: Where do I get help?

FAQ 36: How do I accommodate project layouts that donâ€™t fit the Eclipse model?

FAQ 37: What is new in Eclipse 3.0?

FAQ 38: Is Eclipse 3.0 going to break all of my old plug-ins?

FAQ 39: How do I prevent my plug-in from being broken when I update Eclipse?

FAQ 40: How do I show/hide files like .classpath in the Navigator?

FAQ 41: How do I link the Navigator with the currently active editor?

FAQ 42: How do I use the keyboard to traverse between editors?

FAQ 43: How can I rearrange Eclipse views and editors?

FAQ 44: Why doesnâ€™t my program start when I click the Run button?

FAQ 45: How do I turn off autobuilding of Java code?

FAQ 46: How do I hide referenced libraries in the Package Explorer?

FAQ 47: Where do my .class files disappear to?

FAQ 48: What editor keyboard shortcuts are available?

FAQ 49: How do I stop the Java editor from showing a single method at once?

FAQ 50: How do I open a type in a Java editor?

FAQ 51: How do I control the Java formatter?

FAQ 52: How do I choose my own compiler?

FAQ 53: What Java refactoring support is available?

FAQ 54: How can Content Assist make me the fastest coder ever?

FAQ 55: How can templates make me the fastest coder ever?

FAQ 56: What is a Quick Fix?

FAQ 57: How do I profile my Java program?

FAQ 58: How do I debug my Java program?

FAQ 59: How do I find out the command-line arguments of a launched program?

FAQ 60: What is hot code replace?

FAQ 61: How do I set a conditional breakpoint?

FAQ 62: How do I find all Java methods that return a String?

FAQ 63: What can I view in the Hierarchy view?

FAQ 64: How do I add an extra library to my projectâ€™s classpath?

FAQ 65: What is the advantage of sharing the .project file in a repository?

FAQ 66: What is the function of the .cvsignore file?

FAQ 67: How do I set up a Java project to share in a repository?

FAQ 68: Why does the Eclipse compiler create a different serialVersionUID from javac?

FAQ 69: How do I create a plug-in?

FAQ 70: How do I use the plug-in Manifest Editor?

FAQ 71: Why doesnâ€™t my plug-in build correctly?

FAQ 72: How do I run my plug-in in another instance of Eclipse?

FAQ 73: What causes my plug-in to build but not to load in a runtime workbench?

FAQ 74: My runtime workbench runs, but my plug-in does not show. Why?

FAQ 75: How do I add images and other resources to a runtime JAR file?

FAQ 76: Can I add icons declared by my plugin.xml in the runtime JAR?

FAQ 77: When does PDE change a plug-inâ€™s Java build path?

FAQ 78: What is a PDE JUnit test?

FAQ 79: Where can I find the Eclipse plug-ins?

FAQ 80: How do I find a particular class from an Eclipse plug-in?

FAQ 81: Why do I get a â€œplug-in was unable to load classâ€ error when I activate a menu or toolbar action?

FAQ 82: What is the use of the build.xml file?

FAQ 83: How do I prevent my build.xml file from being overwritten?

FAQ 84: When is the build.xml script executed?

FAQ 85: How do I declare my own extension point?

FAQ 86: How do I find all the plug-ins that contribute to my extension point?

FAQ 87: Why is the interface for my new extension point not visible?

FAQ 88: Can my extension point schema contain nested elements?

FAQ 89: How do I create a feature?

FAQ 90: How do I synchronize versions between a feature and its plug-in(s)?

FAQ 91: What is the Update Manager?

FAQ 92: How do I create an update site (site.xml)?

FAQ 93: Why does my update site need a license?

Part II: The Rich Client Platform

FAQ 94: What is a plug-in?

FAQ 95: Do I use plugin or plug-in?

FAQ 96: What is the plug-in manifest file (plugin.xml)?

FAQ 97: How do I make my plug-in connect to other plug-ins?

FAQ 98: What are extensions and extension points?

FAQ 99: What is an extension point schema?

FAQ 100: How do I find out more about a certain extension point?

FAQ 101: When does a plug-in get started?

FAQ 102: Where do plug-ins store their state?

FAQ 103: How do I find out the install location of a plug-in?

FAQ 104: What is the classpath of a plug-in?

FAQ 105: How do I add a library to the classpath of a plug-in?

FAQ 106: How can I share a JAR among various plug-ins?

FAQ 107: How do I use the context class loader in Eclipse?

FAQ 108: Why doesnâ€™t Eclipse play well with Xerces?

FAQ 109: What is a plug-in fragment?

FAQ 110: Can fragments be used to patch a plug-in?

FAQ 111: What is a configuration?

FAQ 112: How do I find out whether the Eclipse Platform is running?

FAQ 113: Where does System.out and System.err output go?

FAQ 114: How do I locate the owner plug-in from a given class?

FAQ 115: How does OSGi and the new runtime affect me?

FAQ 116: What is a dynamic plug-in?

FAQ 117: How do I make my plug-in dynamic enabled?

FAQ 118: How do I make my plug-in dynamic aware?

FAQ 119: How do I use progress monitors?

FAQ 120: How do I use a SubProgressMonitor?

FAQ 121: How do I use the platform logging facility?

FAQ 122: How do I use the platform debug tracing facility?

FAQ 123: How do I load and save plug-in preferences?

FAQ 124: How do I use the preference service?

FAQ 125: What is a preference scope?

FAQ 126: How do I use IAdaptable and IAdapterFactory?

FAQ 127: Does the platform have support for concurrency?

FAQ 128: How do I prevent two jobs from running at the same time?

FAQ 129: What is the purpose of job families?

FAQ 130: How do I find out whether a particular job is running?

FAQ 131: How can I track the lifecycle of jobs?

FAQ 132: How do I create a repeating background task?

FAQ 133: What is SWT?

FAQ 134: Why does Eclipse use SWT?

FAQ 135: Is SWT platform-specific?

FAQ 136: Is SWT better than Swing?

FAQ 137: Can I use SWT outside Eclipse for my own project?

FAQ 138: Are there any visual composition editors available for SWT?

FAQ 139: Why do I have to dispose of colors, fonts, and images?

FAQ 140: Why do I get an invalid thread access exception?

FAQ 141: How do I get a Display instance?

FAQ 142: How do I prompt the user to select a file or a directory?

FAQ 143: How do I display a Web page in SWT?

FAQ 144: How do I embed AWT and Swing inside SWT?

FAQ 145: Where can I find more information on SWT?

FAQ 146: What is a viewer?

FAQ 147: What are content and label providers?

FAQ 148: What kinds of viewers does JFace provide?

FAQ 149: Why should I use a viewer?

FAQ 150: How do I sort the contents of a viewer?

FAQ 151: How do I filter the contents of a viewer?

FAQ 152: How do I use properties to optimize a viewer?

FAQ 153: What is a label decorator?

FAQ 154: How do I use image and font registries?

FAQ 155: What is a wizard?

FAQ 156: How do I specify the order of pages in a wizard?

FAQ 157: How can I reuse wizard pages in more than one wizard?

FAQ 158: Can I reuse wizards from other plug-ins?

FAQ 159: How do I make my wizard appear in the UI?

FAQ 160: How do I run a lengthy process in a wizard?

FAQ 161: How do I launch the preference page that belongs to my plug-in?

FAQ 162: How do I ask a simple yes or no question?

FAQ 163: How do I inform the user of a problem?

FAQ 164: How do I create a dialog with a details area?

FAQ 165: How do I set the title of a custom dialog?

FAQ 166: How do I save settings for a dialog or wizard?

FAQ 167: Pages, parts, sites, windows: What is all this stuff?

FAQ 168: How do I find out what object is selected?

FAQ 169: How do I find out what view or editor is selected?

FAQ 170: How do I find the active workbench page?

FAQ 171: How do I show progress on the workbench status line?

FAQ 172: Why should I use the new progress service?

FAQ 173: How do I write a message to the workbench status line?

FAQ 174: How do I create a label decorator declaratively?

FAQ 175: How do I add label decorations to my viewer?

FAQ 176: How do I make the workbench shutdown?

FAQ 177: How can I use IWorkbenchAdapter to display my model elements?

FAQ 178: How do I create my own preference page?

FAQ 179: How do I use property pages?

FAQ 180: How do I open a Property dialog?

FAQ 181: How do I add my wizard to the New, Import, or Export menu categories?

FAQ 182: Can I activate my plug-in when the workbench starts?

FAQ 183: How do I create an image registry for my plug-in?

FAQ 184: How do I use images defined by other plug-ins?

FAQ 185: How do I show progress for things happening in the background?

FAQ 186: How do I switch from using a Progress dialog to the Progress view?

FAQ 187: Can I make a job run in the UI thread?

FAQ 188: Are there any special Eclipse UI guidelines?

FAQ 189: Why do the names of some interfaces end with the digit 2?

FAQ 190: How do I create a new perspective?

FAQ 191: How can I add my views and actions to an existing perspective?

FAQ 192: How do I show a given perspective?

FAQ 193: What is the difference between a perspective and a workbench page?

FAQ 194: How do I create fixed views and perspectives?

FAQ 195: What is a view?

FAQ 196: What is the difference between a view and a viewer?

FAQ 197: How do I create my own view?

FAQ 198: How do I set the size or position of my view?

FAQ 199: Why canâ€™t I control when, where, and how my view is presented?

How will my view show up in the Show View menu?

FAQ 201: How do I make my view appear in the Show In menu?

FAQ 202: How do I add actions to a viewâ€™s menu and toolbar?

FAQ 203: How do I make a view respond to selection changes in another view?

FAQ 204: How does a view persist its state between sessions?

FAQ 205: How do I open multiple instances of the same view?

FAQ 206: What is the difference between a view and an editor?

FAQ 207: How do I open an editor programmatically?

FAQ 208: How do I open an external editor?

FAQ 209: How do I dynamically register an editor to handle a given extension?

FAQ 210: How do I switch to vi or emacs-style key bindings?

FAQ 211: How do I create my own editor?

FAQ 212: How do I enable the Save and Revert actions?

FAQ 213: How do I enable global actions such as Cut, Paste, and Print in my editor?

FAQ 214: How do I hook my editor to the Back and Forward buttons?

FAQ 215: How do I create a form-based editor, such as the plug-in Manifest Editor?

FAQ 216: How do I create a graphical editor?

FAQ 217: How do I make an editor that contains another editor?

FAQ 218: Actions, commands, operations, jobs: What does it all mean?

FAQ 219: What is an action set?

FAQ 220: How do I make my action set visible?

FAQ 221: How do I add actions to the global toolbar?

FAQ 222: How do I add menus to the main menu?

FAQ 223: How do I add actions to the main menu?

FAQ 224: Why are some actions activated without a target?

FAQ 225: Where can I find a list of existing action group names?

FAQ 226: What is the difference between a command and an action?

FAQ 227: How do I associate an action with a command?

FAQ 228: How do I create my own key-binding configuration?

FAQ 229: How do I provide a keyboard shortcut for my action?

FAQ 230: How can I change the name or tooltip of my action?

FAQ 231: How do I hook into global actions, such as Copy and Delete?

FAQ 232: How do I build menus and toolbars programmatically?

FAQ 233: How do I make menus with dynamic contents?

FAQ 234: What is the difference between a toolbar and a cool bar?

FAQ 235: Can other plug-ins add actions to my partâ€™s context menu?

FAQ 236: How do I add other plug-insâ€™ actions to my menus?

FAQ 237: What is the purpose of activities?

FAQ 238: How do I add activities to my plug-in?

FAQ 239: How do activities get enabled?

FAQ 240: What is the difference between perspectives and activities?

FAQ 241: What is an Eclipse application?

FAQ 242: How do I create an application?

FAQ 243: What is the minimal Eclipse configuration?

FAQ 244: How do I create a Rich Client application?

FAQ 245: How do I customize the menus in an RCP application?

FAQ 246: How do I make key bindings work in an RCP application?

FAQ 247: Can I create an application that doesnâ€™t have views or editors?

FAQ 248: How do I specify where application data is stored?

FAQ 249: Can I create an application that doesnâ€™t have a data location?

FAQ 250: What is an Eclipse product?

FAQ 251: What is the difference between a product and an application?

FAQ 252: How do I distribute my Eclipse offering?

FAQ 253: Can I use an installation program to distribute my Eclipse product?

FAQ 254: Can I install my product as an add-on to another product?

FAQ 255: Where do I find suitable Eclipse logos and wordmarks?

FAQ 256: When do I need to write a plug-in install handler?

FAQ 257: How do I support multiple natural languages in my plug-in messages?

FAQ 258: How do I replace the Eclipse workbench window icon with my own?

FAQ 259: How do I write my own eclipse.exe platform launcher?

FAQ 260: Who shows the Eclipse splash screen?

FAQ 261: How can I publish partial upgrades (patches) to my product?

Part III: The Eclipse IDE Platform

FAQ 262: What support is there for creating custom text editors?

FAQ 263: Iâ€™m still confused! How do all the editor pieces fit together?

FAQ 264: How do I get started with creating a custom text editor?

FAQ 265: How do I use the text document model?

FAQ 266: What is a document partition?

FAQ 267: How do I add Content Assist to my editor?

FAQ 268: How do I provide syntax coloring in an editor?

FAQ 269: How do I support formatting in my editor?

FAQ 270: How do I insert text in the active text editor?

FAQ 271: What is the difference between highlight range and selection?

FAQ 272: How do I change the selection on a double-click in my editor?

FAQ 273: How do I use a model reconciler?

FAQ 274: How do I add help Content to my plug-in?

FAQ 275: How do I provide F1 help?

FAQ 276: How do I contribute help contexts?

FAQ 277: How can I generate HTML and toc.xml files?

FAQ 278: How do I Write a Search dialog?

FAQ 279: How do I implement a search operation?

FAQ 280: How do I display search results?

FAQ 281: How can I use and extend the compare infrastructure?

FAQ 282: How do I create a Compare dialog?

FAQ 283: How do I create a compare editor?

FAQ 284: How are resources created?

FAQ 285: Can I create resources that donâ€™t reside in the file system?

FAQ 286: What is the difference between a path and a location?

FAQ 287: When should I use refreshLocal?

FAQ 288: How do I create my own tasks, problems, bookmarks, and so on?

FAQ 289: How can I be notified of changes to the workspace?

FAQ 290: How do I prevent builds between multiple changes to the workspace?

FAQ 291: Why should I add my own project nature?

FAQ 292: Where can I find information about writing builders?

FAQ 293: How do I store extra properties on a resource?

FAQ 294: How can I be notified on property changes on a resource?

FAQ 295: How and when do I save the workspace?

FAQ 296: How can I be notified when the workspace is being saved?

FAQ 297: Where is the workspace local history stored?

FAQ 298: How can I repair a workspace that is broken?

FAQ 299: What support does the workspace have for team tools?

FAQ 300: How do I open an editor on a file in the workspace?

FAQ 301: How do I open an editor on a file outside the workspace?

FAQ 302: How do I open an editor on something that is not a file?

FAQ 303: Why donâ€™t my markers show up in the Tasks view?

FAQ 304: Why donâ€™t my markers appear in the editorâ€™s vertical ruler?

FAQ 305: How do I access the active project?

FAQ 306: What are IWorkspaceRunnable, IRunnableWithProgress, and WorkspaceModifyOperation?

FAQ 307: How do I write to the console from a plug-in ?

FAQ 308: How do I prompt the user to select a resource?

FAQ 309: Can I use the actions from the Navigator in my own plug-in?

FAQ 310: What APIs exist for integrating repository clients into Eclipse?

FAQ 311: How do I deploy projects to a server and keep the two synchronized?

FAQ 312: What is the difference between a repository provider and a team subscriber?

FAQ 313: What is a launch configuration?

FAQ 314: When do I use a launch delegate?

FAQ 315: What is Ant?

FAQ 316: Why canâ€™t my Ant build find javac?

FAQ 317: How do I add my own external tools?

FAQ 318: How do I create an external tool builder?

FAQ 319: What is eScript?

FAQ 320: Language integration phase 1: How do I compile and build programs?

FAQ 321: How do I load source files edited outside Eclipse?

FAQ 322: How do I run an external builder on my source files?

FAQ 323: How do I implement a compiler that runs inside Eclipse?

FAQ 324: How do I react to changes in source files?

FAQ 325: How do I implement an Eclipse builder?

FAQ 326: Where are project build specifications stored?

FAQ 327: How do I add a builder to a given project?

FAQ 328: How do I implement an incremental project builder?

FAQ 329: How do I handle setup problems for a given builder?

FAQ 330: How do I make my compiler incremental?

FAQ 331: Language integration phase 2: How do I implement a DOM?

FAQ 332: How do I implement a DOM for my language?

FAQ 333: How can I ensure that my model is scalable?

FAQ 334: Language integration phase 3: How do I edit programs?

FAQ 335: How do I write an editor for my own language?

FAQ 336: How do I add Content Assist to my language editor?

FAQ 337: How do I add hover support to my text editor?

FAQ 338: How do I create problem markers for my compiler?

FAQ 339: How do I implement Quick Fixes for my own language?

FAQ 340: How do I support refactoring for my own language?

FAQ 341: How do I create an Outline view for my own language editor?

FAQ 342: Language integration phase 4: What are the finishing touches?

FAQ 343: What wizards do I define for my own language?

FAQ 344: When does my language need its own nature?

FAQ 345: When does my language need its own perspective?

FAQ 346: How do I add documentation and help for my own language?

FAQ 347: How do I support source-level debugging for my own language?

FAQ 348: How do I extend the JDT?

FAQ 349: What is the Java model?

FAQ 350: How do I create Java elements?

FAQ 351: How do I create a Java project?

FAQ 352: How do I manipulate Java code?

FAQ 353: What is a working copy?

FAQ 354: What is a JDOM?

FAQ 355: What is an AST?

FAQ 356: How do I create and examine an AST?

FAQ 357: How do I distinguish between internal and external JARs on the build path?

FAQ 358: How do I launch a Java program?

FAQ 359: What is JUnit?

FAQ 360: How do I participate in a refactoring?

FAQ 361: What is LTK?

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