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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

Copyright
The Eclipse Series
Foreword
Preface
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 won’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 don’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 doesn’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 project’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 doesn’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-in’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 “plug-in was unable to load class” 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 doesn’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 can’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 view’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 part’s context menu?
FAQ 236: How do I add other plug-ins’ 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 doesn’t have views or editors?
FAQ 248: How do I specify where application data is stored?
FAQ 249: Can I create an application that doesn’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: I’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 don’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 don’t my markers show up in the Tasks view?
FAQ 304: Why don’t my markers appear in the editor’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 can’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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